What's on Your Plate? Day #15 - Eggless Chocolate Banana Peanut butter Bars

Ever since the #stayinplace orders have been enforced I haven’t had a chance to bake at all since the focus has been on cooking :) My boys were probably missing all the baked treats they were regularly getting so my younger one insisted I bake something today and he also wanted to learn to bake. So I figured I’d make something simple for him to follow and help with. He did help measure and mix and he very very eagerly waited for it to be baked and cooled so he could eat..or devour in this case! :D 

These eggless Chocolate Banana Peanut butter bars are easy to put together and Peanut butter is a tasty crunchy addition. I had bananas that were way past their prime and crunchy peanut butter on hand, so that they went together. I thoroughly enjoy peanuts on a chocolate sundae so figured they would taste good together. Tasty amalgamation indeed!

You will need:

3/4 cup All-purpose flour
1/4 cup Cocoa powder + 1 tbsp
1/4 tsp Salt
2 large ripe bananas
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted
 1 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 cup crunchy peanut butter
1/4 cup Chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350F. Butter an 8”x8” square baking pan. Dust with a tablespoon of cocoa powder. You can use plain flour too.

In a bowl, mash the bananas with a fork. Add the sugar, melted butter and vanilla. Whisk well until combined. Sift flour, salt and cocoa powder over this banana mixture and combine well. Warm the peanut butter in the microwave for a few seconds until easy to mix. Add to the prepared batter and combine well.

Pour batter into prepared pan. Top with chocolate chips.

Bake for 30- 35 minutes. Cool completely before slicing. You can also chill the whole pan before cutting into bars.We of course couldn’t wait until  they were chilled and went for these bars right away. These were incredibly delicious and had to stop everyone from eating all of it! 

These bars would taste great with some vanilla ice cream too….yum!!