Banana Bars

Banana Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting are an amazing homemade dessert featuring bananas. Super moist, this banana bar cake is delicious year round but really makes its splash in the spring time for picnics and parties.

If you have a pile of ripe bananas and are not sure what to do with them, this dessert recipe is sure to put them to great mouthwatering use. Plus the whipped cream cheese frosting makes a striking dessert with very little effort and ALL the flavor.

Banana Bars Ingredients

Frosted Banana Bars with creamy cheese is a dense and moist cake like dessert bar. Bananas gone bad? Not a problem here! This is such a fantastic treat to take overly ripe bananas and create a masterpiece smothered in cream cheese frosting.

Here are the ingredients to gather to get started and then scroll to the recipe card for assembly, measurements, and banana tips:

• flour
• baking soda
• salt
• butter
• white sugar
• 2 eggs
• sour cream
• vanilla
• mashed ripe bananas (about 2-3 bananas)
• cream cheese frosting

How to make Banana Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting

Preheat oven to 350 and grease a 9 x 13 x 2 baking sheet with nonstick cooking spray. Please note that a baking sheet is not the same as a COOKIE sheet. The baking sheet needs to be at least 2 inches deep and here is an example.

In a small bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and salt and mix well. Seat aside.

Using a mixer, add butter and sugar and beat well, for 3 minutes until light and fluffy.

Fold in eggs, sour cream, and vanilla and beat well.

Add bananas and mix well.

Fold in flour and beat just until mixed in.

Pour batter into prepared pan and bake for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick stuck in the center comes out clean.

Let cool completely before frosting.

Decorating Frosted Banana Bars

Just like strawberry poke cake, use a 1 m frosting top and an 18 inch piping bag to put beautiful dollops and flowers of cream cheese frosting.

Simply spread out the frosting with a knife or a back of a spoon like I did with the banana pudding poke cake recipe.

If you take your time with the frosting, you can change the tips out and add mini star shapes as well! The decorating is totally up to you and how much time you have.

Optional Banana Bar Variations

• Chocolate Chips – want a little chocolate in your banana bar? Add mini chocolate chips on top of the frosting OR add 1/2 a cup of chocolate chips into the banana batter
• Walnut Pieces – walnuts are often used in banana recipes like banana bread and banana cake. You can easily add walnut pieces to these banana bars or use as a finish to your cream cheese frosting

More Ripe Banana Recipes

• Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
• Banana Pudding
• Banana Poke Cake
• Crock Pot Banana Bread