Can you tell I am on a Banana Bread Kick this week? I just can’t help myself! It is so good! Like gone in a day again good! It’s a wonder the 3 of us are not big as a house. I just can’t stop making wonderful yummy treats. I spend hours on Pinterest and I see so many wonderful things and I get so hungry that I just have to bake and cook and bake and cook! Really I mean I do have to test them all out for you. What kind of a foodie friend would I be if I didn’t? hee hee, I found this little darling of a treat on Butteryum.
She named it “To Die For Banana Cake” Let me tell you that she wasn’t kidding! Not one little tiny bit! I could not believe how moist this cake was. You can just see the absolutely amazing vanilla bean flakes in the frosting! I am starting to get really hungry and I just might have to make some of these again very soon! Why am I calling these Blondies and not a cake? Well, the texture and moistness of these really resemble a fudgy brownie. Since you don’t put cocoa in these they can’t be called Banana Brownies but I can call them Banana Blondies!
Let’s talk about this frosting for a minute. We all love frosting. Hence the phrase “the icing on the cake!” I don’t think I have ever come across a bad frosting {yucky grocery store stuff excluded} But this frosting? Holy Sweet Stuff is it good!
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The secret? Heavy Cream! yes, you read that right Heavy Cream my friends! Not only is there the luscious goodness of a whole vanilla bean there is thick, creamy, tasty Heavy Cream!!! Are your tastebuds ready for overload yet? Well, they need to be to handle these.
Once Baked and frosted you can cut this up into the tastiest squares in the entire World!
Banana Bread Blondies Recipe
Ingredients
- 2/3 cup sugar for the blondies
- 2 tbsp unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup sour crème
- 1 egg
- 2 mashed ripe bananas
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 cup AP Flour
- 1/4 tsp kosher salt
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 2 tbsp unsalted butter room temperature
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 1 vanilla bean
- 1/4 cup powdered sugar
Instructions
- For the Blondies
- Grease and flour an 8×8 baking pan
- preheat oven to 375
- cream the sugar, sour cream, egg, and butter
- add the mashed bananas and vanilla
- add the flour, salt, and baking SODA
- pour batter into the prepared pan and bake for 20 min or until done
- remove from oven and let cool completely before you frost
- For the Frosting:
- Cream the butter and powdered sugar
- slowly add the cream mixture until smooth
- scrape the bean seeds out of the pod into the frosting
- add more powdered sugar as needed by 1 tbsp each until the desired consistency is achieved
- frost on the cooled cake let set slightly and cut into squares.
- Enjoy!!!
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