B is for Banana: Cocoa Bottom Banana Pecan Bars

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Baking, Banana, banana bars, cakes, chocolate cake, cocoa bars, cocoa bottom banana pecan bars, healthy food, overripe banana, pecan, what to do with overripe banana

What’s the best healthy treats to do with overripe bananas?

My kids and the bananas is like on and off, sometimes they can be gone in a couple of days and some other times they stay until browned then no body will touch them (They call them rotten and would rather throw them in the garbage, you may had this issue with your kids too). To me, it’s the best healthy sweetener to use in cakes and smoothies, every time I have some ripened banana, I just peel and freeze them in a zip lock plastic bags, that’s a good way to save the banana until you have a use for them.

Here is a great way to use up these overripe banana on your shelf and your kids will thank you for. They even will not notice the trick part of using those what they called “rotten bananas”. Another recipe to use the banana is in these healthy delicious Banana Oat Muffins.

I had this recipe from kitchen aid cookbook, and since I tried the recipe, it became my family stable. A very moist, light and fluffy bananaishy cake, your house will be filled with banana smell, it uses a large amount of bananas, you can add some other spices like cinnamon and nutmeg, but I prefers it as is. The addition of cocoa powder to half of the cake batter makes it kids friendly, you know kids love anything calls and tastes chocolate, they will finish every bit of it, trust me.

1 cup sugar
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened
5 ripe bananas, mashed
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and grease a13x9-inch baking pan. In the bowl of an electric stand mixer (or you could do it by hand), beat sugar and butter at a medium speed until creamy. Add the bananas, egg, and vanilla, continuing to beat until well blended.
Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl. Add the flour mixture to the banana mixture, and beat until well blended. Stir in the chopped pecans.
Divide the batter in half. Stir the cocoa into one half, and spread the chocolate batter into the bottom of the greased pan. Top with the plain batter, and swirl with a knife as desired.
Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until the edges are lightly browned. Cool completely in the pan on a wire rack. Cut into bars.

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Banana Oat Muffins

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Banana, breakfast, chocolate chip, cinnamon, kids friendly, Muffin, nutmeg, oatmeal, pecan

Delicious … satisfying … Warming … Fragrant …  Healthy …  Easy and quick …

But the most important ONE  kids friendly

yeb! kids like these.

When I bake these muffins they always gone within an hour, they even don’t wait for the morning. I some times double the batch if I plan to have some at breakfast.

It’s a good way to push a high fiber oat into your kids diet, banana also give that beautiful aroma with cinnamon and nutmeg. oh very tempting to eat all of them.

For snacks they are a healthy choice, so whats your kids favourite snack?

Banana Oatmeal Muffins

 

1 1/2 cup  flour

2 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 bag vanilla powder

1\2 teaspoon cinnamon

1\4 teaspoon nutmeg

1/2 cup oatmeal old-fashioned

1/4 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup minced pecan

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter at room temperature

1/2 cup white sugar

2 medium egg at room temperature

3 bananas medium size

1 teaspoon  white vinegar

4 tablespoon liquid milk

chocolate chips

 

for the top

 

oatmeal

Brown sugar

 

 

Heat  the oven to 350 f.

  

Beat the butter and white sugar with the electric mixer until they creamy and fluffy, add the egg one at a time, beat together.

 

 Mash the banana add the vinegar to it then add the banana to the egg batter (I like to put vinegar to all my baking, it takes off the smell of eggs also increase the shelf  life for the bakings).

 

 

Add the milk and beat together,the batter will be smooth and fluffy.

 

Sift together all the dry ingredients:  the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, vanilla, nutmeg),  then add to it the minced pecan, the oatmeal (first you must grind it very fine in the food processor).

Add the dry ingredient gradually and stir gently after each addition.

 

 Add the chocolate chips the amount you like and as how you like it  in the batter.

 

Line the cupcake pan with paper cups and spray the papers with oil, fill 3\4 of the cups with the batter.

 

Mix 2 tablespoon oatmeal with 2 tablespoon brown sugar, add to the top of the batter