Banana Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
| PREP TIME: 40 MIN | BAKE TIME: 30 MIN | TOTAL TIME: 70 MIN |
Gooey and delicious your home will smell like bananas!
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 Cups Packed Brown Sugar
- 1/4 Cup Sugar
- 3/4 Cup Brown Butter
- 1/2 Cup Mashed Banana
- 2 Large Eggs (Room Temp)
- 1 Tsp Vanilla
- 2 1/2 Cups of All Purpose Flour(Spoon & Leveled)
- 2 Tsp Cinnamon
- 1 Tsp Baking Soda
- 1/2 Cup Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips
- 1/2 Cup Milk Chocolate Chips
- 1/3 Cup Toffee
- More of each topping to garnish the top once baked.
Instructions
Make sure your eggs are room temperature and this dough will come together beautifully!
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Makes about 9 Cookie Bars.
- Begin by cutting the butter into cubes. Next, In a heavy saucepan heat butter over Medium heat to begin the browning process. Stir constantly until the butter begins to turn into a golden brown color. It will be foamy and that is ok. Once the butter has reached that beautiful golden brown color remove from heat and place into a heat safe bowl to cool.
- Sift your dry ingredients.
- Preheat the oven to 350'F
- Prepare a 9x9 Baking pan with non stick spray and parchment paper that is long on the sides so you're able to pull the bars out once baked.
- In a large bowl combine your brown butter, mashed bananas, eggs, sugars and vanilla and whisk until combined.
- Add your sifted dry ingredients into the wet mixture and fold until just combined. Do not over mix.
- Add chocolate chips and toffee and mix until combined.
- Cookie bars need to be baked right away the dough does not store well.
- Evenly spread the cookie dough on the pan.
- Add more chocolate chips and toffee on top.
- Bake for 30-35 minutes or until golden brown on the top and the center is mostly baked.
- Allow cookies to cool a bit and add more chocolate chips and toffee on top.
- Then allow to cool completely and cut into 9 pieces.
TIPS
- This cookie dough cannot be made in advanced it does not store well.
- Cookie bar will look a little undone once taken out they will finish baking in the baking sheet out of the oven. Allow them to cool completely to set.
- Cookie bars can be refrigerated up to 5 days. Take out the desired amount and microwave in 30 second intervals until you bring the cookie back to room temp.
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