Chocolate Chip Banana Blondies

🧂 Ingredients

• 2 cups UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour

  (bleached flour toughens baked goods)
• 2 cups light brown sugar

  packed
• 2 large eggs
• 1 cup unsalted butter

  melted (and browned, if desired (2 sticks)
• 1 tbsp. vanilla extract
• 1 cup ripe bananas

  mashed with a fork
• 1/2 tsp. sea salt
• 12 oz. pkg. semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1 cup pecans

  chopped, or walnuts (optional) (measure after chopping)
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter

  (1 stick)
• 1 cup light brown sugar

  packed
• 2 cups powdered sugar
• 4 tbsp. half-and-half
• 1 cup miniature chocolate chips

Instructions

• 1 To brown the butter: place butter in saucepan over medium heat and bring to a
  boil.
• 2 Boil, stirring constantly until lightly browned.
• 3 This may take five or ten minutes; set aside and cool 5 minutes.
• 4 Place browned butter in a mixing bowl.
• 5 Add brown sugar and mix thoroughly with an electric mixer.
• 6 If the mixture has not cooled sufficiently, wait a few minutes before adding
  eggs, vanilla and salt. (So the egg doesn’t scramble!).
• 7 Mix again with mixer until thoroughly mixed.
• 8 Stir in flour, bananas and chocolate chips and nuts, if using.
• 9 Mix until combined.
• 10 Pour mixture into a greased 9x13” glass baking dish.
• 11 Bake at 350° for about 40 minutes until a toothpick inserted in center comes out
  clean.
• 12 Allow blondies to cool completely before icing with browned sugar icing.
• 13 Melt butter over medium heat in medium-sized saucepan.
• 14 Add brown sugar and half-and-half and bring to a boil.
• 15 Remove from heat.
• 16 Cool icing ingredients 5 minutes.
• 17 Add powdered sugar and whisk until smooth.
• 18 Spread over cooled blondies.
• 19 Sprinkle miniature chocolate chips immediately over top.
• 20 Allow blondies to set before cutting into bars.

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