I was an inspired this past week by a Pinterest post. When I saw the picture of banana bread bars with icing…I COULD NOT WAIT to make them. Click here for the original recipe! I admit, I am impulsive at times. Some may say that being impulsive is a bad thing BUT most of the time it works for me! 🙂 If I see something I want, I go get it. Right then! When I am inspired by a recipe or even about a work project…I get moving RIGHT away… So…enough about me, really…
How do these Banana Bread Brownies look to you? I couldn’t wait to dig in…so I didn’t. Ha! 🙂
Yum, right?
I like to mash my bananas with my potato masher. They get nice and mushy.
I love walnuts in banana bread, do you? If not, just don’t add ’em. 
But really the best part of this recipe is the browned butter icing. Seriously, this icing is ridiculously good. These Banana Bread Brownies with browned butter icing were so tasty! The icing makes them very decadent….feel free to enjoy the brownies without it too.
I did use Chobani Greek yogurt in this recipe. The entire 6 ounce container contains about 5 grams of lactose so should not pose a problem for most FODMAPers spread out in the entire recipe, however, feel free to sub in lactose free yogurt.
Ingredients
- 4 just ripe bananas, peeled (overly ripe bananas contain fructans)
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup melted butter or vegetable oil of choice
- 6 ounce Chobani non fat plain Greek yogurt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or paste
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups gluten free flour (I used Trader Joe's gluten free all purpose flour)
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
- Icing:
- 1/2 cup butter
- 2 1/2 cups confectioner's sugar
- 1 Tablespoon milk of choice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla or vanilla paste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees Farenheit
- Lightly oil 8 x 8 square pan.
- Mash bananas with fork or potato masher until creamy in medium size bowl.
- Add in sugar, butter or oil, yogurt vanilla and eggs until blended.
- Slowly add in flour and baking soda.
- Fold in walnuts.
- Pour mixture into prepared pan and bake for about 35 minutes. {You may want to cover with tin foil for the last 10 minutes of cooking to avoid over browning.}
- Prepare Icing: Brown butter in small saucepan over medium heat. Watching carefully and moving pan to move butter around while cooking. Remove from heat when butter is lightly browned.
- Let butter cool just a little -about 2-3 minutes.
- Stir in confectioner's sugar, milk and vanilla, blending until creamy with a fork, whisk or use electric beaters. (I used a whisk)
- Spread icing over warm brownies as it spreads easier.
- EAT!
So before I leave you today, I have a question for you.
What’s your earliest memory of blissful happiness?
For me, this brings up a childhood memory… running around my house with my basset hound Max chasing after me! Max was the first to show me what unconditional love is all about. I have always been an animal lover. Here I am with one of my many childhood cats!
Don’t forget to get in some blissful happiness this week! Start my making a list of what makes you blissfully happy! Then go get some!
Esther
Hi Kate ..
I have been struggling w/IBS-C for almost three years .. I went to a dietician this week and although she spoke about the FODmaps diet she put me on the anti diarrhea diet ..
I mentioned several times that my major problem is my food sensitivities .. I manage to get enough fiber throughout the day so constipation is not a daily problem for me most days .. but I have a very limited diet .. I can not eat fruits or veggies other than applesauce .. Banana and baked potato .. She now wants me to eat the potato without the skin which i have been tolerating just fine and try substituting one half cup of strawberries which have been frozen .. Does this make sense to you ? Thank you .. Esther
katescarlata
Esther, I would circle back with the dietitian and ask her rationale for putting you on the ‘anti-diarrhea’ diet vs. the low FODMAP. She may have a very valid reason for this type of nutritional intervention for you… I can’t provide individual medical nutritional therapy on my blog as I am not privy to medical information that would serve to guide treatment. Always ask your health care providers for their rationale of therapy if it does not make sense to you. Good health care should involve a well educated health care practitioner as well as an active patient that asks questions and provides as much info as possible to help determine proper diagnosis and care.
Faye
Hi, I’m actually in the process of making this now and I’m not sure if an 8×8 pan is correct. I followed your recipe exactly and it wasn’t done after 35 minutes. I looked at the original recipe and they used a 15×10 pan, significantly larger. I’m popping it back in the oven for additional cooking time and I hope it’s salvageable.
katescarlata
Hi Faye, I modified the original recipe and used an 8 x 8 and it cooked up in 35 minutes for me. Sometimes oven cooking time does vary so it’s best to check baked products with a cake tester. I hope its salvageable too.
Faye
It was fine after an additional 20 minutes and tasted great. Guess it just varies, thanks!