Banana Bars with Cream Cheese frosting
These banana bars are my all-time favorite. They’re so moist and delicious. The cream cheese frosting on top goes with the banana bars perfectly.
Banana Bars – from my mom (no idea where it came from originally) – makes ~3dozen bars1/2 cup softened butter or margarine
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups mashed ripe bananas (about 4 medium)
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
Pinch salt
Preheat oven to 350F. In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Beat in eggs, bananas, and vanilla.
Combine to flour, baking soda, and salt; add to creamed mixture and mix well.
Pour into a greased 15x10x1 inch baking pan. Bake at 350 for 25 minutes or until bars test done. Cool.
Frosting
1/2 cup softened butter or margarine
4 cups confectioners sugar
1 package (8 ounces) softened cream cheese
2 tsp. vanilla extract
Cream butter and cream cheese in a mixing bowl. Gradually add confectioners’ sugar and vanilla; beat well. Spread over bars.






I am Jen the Beantown Baker. Engineer by day and baking maven by night. Hubby serves as my #1 fan and official taste tester. We got hitched back in 2006. Barefoot. In the sand. With the waves crashing behind us. It was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made. 






Wow! What a unique flavor for cupcakes! The filling looks awesome cut open and I can only imagine how great they taste!
oh wow, these sound awesome. and they look beautiful. 🙂
They look great! I love the blueberry filling =) It’s such a colorful (and oh yeah, tasty) surprise when you bite into that cupcake…
These cupcakes are amazing. I have made them 3 times this summer!!! So thanks so much for the recipe!!!! I just referenced you and this recipe on my (newish) blog for lemon week. here is the link
http://everywhereorange.blogspot.com/2010/08/lemon-blueberry-basil-cupcakes.html
let me know if this is a problem. 🙂 kris