Let me start by saying these were gone in 24 hours. I do live in a dorm with tons of hungry teenagers, but still, they disappeared in the blink of an eye.
It was hard to come up with a title for these. Technically they were made in a 9x13 pan and should be called bars. But they were moist and had a more fluffy texture so it was more like bread than a bar. I guess it falls somewhere it between.
There is a plethora of wonderful ingredients in here but some of them include: oats, overripe bananas, chopped Reeses, and chocolate chips. Can't get much better than that can it?
After it was done baking, I melted some chocolate chips with a few tablespoons of heavy whipping cream and drizzled it over the top. A must do.
I am on "Fall Break" right now, which is just a few days off of school and it is quite nice to have a mental break. I'm at Willamette University right now visiting my boy, and it's his 20th birthday next week! Because I can't be here with him on his special day we are going to make a cake together and have a pre-birthday celebration.
Back to the recipe... I made this in between classes one day and it was really simple so if you are in a crunch it's a good one to do! I had 2 seriously overripe bananas that I'd bought and was trying to figure out what to do with them (I hate wasting food). Breakfast muffins? Chocolate chip muffins? Banana bread? Smoothie?
I finally arrived at this!
This recipe was inspired (but changed a bit) by the Bon Appetit cookbook.
This was the sad last piece left!
Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup oats
1 tbsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
2 sticks unsalted butter, room temp
1 1/4 cups sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
2 eggs
2 very ripe bananas
2 tsp. vanilla
1/2-1 cup chocolate chips
4-6 Reeses cups, chopped
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 350.
Take two bananas that look like this:
And turn them into this:
Mush up thoroughly with a fork until you reach a smooth consistency.
Blend the dry ingredients in a separate medium sized bowl: flour, oats, baking powder, and salt.
In a large mixing bowl combine the butter and sugar with an electric mixer.
Then, add both eggs, one at a time.
Beat in the banana mush mixture, followed by the vanilla.
Stir the flour mixture slowly into the wet ingredients.
Stir in the chocolate chips and Reeses cups (determine the amount yourself based on how much chocolate you want).
Pour the mixture into a pre-greased 9x13 baking pan.
Bake until the top is golden brown at 350 for about 35-45 minutes.
Once they have been removed from the oven allow to cool completely.
I took some chocolate chips (about 1/4 cup) and a few tablespoons of whipping cream to reach a thin consistency and drizzled it over the top for some added oomph.
If you like bananas and chocolate I can guarantee you will LOVE these.
Sidenote:
I am from San Francisco and am a huge Giants fan. The NLDS can be summed up in one word: torture. Not only are we the first National League team to come back and win the series from an 0-2 deficit. The Cincinnati Reds had not been swept 3 games in a row at home all season. Let's go Giants and let's continue to kick some butt in the NLCS.
Happy Friday and Happy Baking!
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