Banana Bread

by Christopher Cravey Cooking time ~40 min

Ingredients

Banana Bread:

• 1 and 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 2 eggs
• 3 to 4 ripe bananas, mashed
• 2 tsp. vanilla extract
• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 3/4 tsp salt

Frosting:

• 1/2 cup butter
• 4 cups powdered sugar
• 1 and 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 3 tbsp milk

Instructions

Heat oven to 375F. Grease and flour a 15x10 inch jelly roll pan. For the bars, in a large bowl, beat together sugar, sour cream, butter, and eggs until creamy. Blend in bananas and vanilla extract. Add flour, baking soda, salt, and blend for 1 minute.

Spread batter evenly into pan. Bake 20 - 25 minutes or until golden brown.

For the frosting, heat butter in a large saucepan over medium heat until boiling. Let butter turn a delicate brown and remove from heat immediately.

Add powdered sugar, vanilla extract and milk. Whisk together until smooth (should be a bit thinner than frosting). Using a spatula, spread the brown butter frosting over the warm bars.

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