Best Recipes: Banana Split Brownies

Your family and friends will absolutely do flips over these Banana Split
Brownies. Just like the ice cream version, these delights blend the flavors
of chocolate, banana, and strawberries to perfection. In fact, these
brownies are so good, you can probably use them to bribe folks into just
about anything. “If you do this, I’ll make you some Banana Spit Brownies.”
Yeah, these are as good as gold.

Brownies

½ cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. baking powder
½ tsp. baking soda
1/8 tsp. salt
1 cup mashed ripe banana (3 medium)
2 eggs
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
8 oz. tub cream cheese with strawberries
1 cup sifted powdered sugar
½ cup frozen strawberries, thawed, drained, and cut up
2 ½ to 3 cups powdered sugar

Garnish (optional)

Sliced bananas
Maraschino cherries

Directions for Brownies

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Grease a 13x9x2-inch baking pan; set aside.

In a large mixing bowl, beat butter with electric mixer on medium to high
speed for 30 seconds. Add sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Beat
until combined, scraping sides of bowl occasionally. Beat in banana and
eggs. Beat or stir in flour and cocoa powder.

Pour batter into prepared pan.

Bake about 20 minutes or until wooden toothpick inserted into center comes
out clean. Cool in pan on wire rack. Spread with Strawberry Cream Cheese
Frosting.

Cut into bars. Garnish with banana slices and maraschino cherries. Cover and
store in refrigerator.

Directions for Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting

In mixing bowl, combine ½ of 8-oz tub cream cheese with strawberries, and 1
cup sifted powdered sugar. Beat with electric mixer on medium speed until
combined. Beat in ½ cup frozen strawberries. Beat in 2 ½ to 3 cups powdered
sugar or enough to make frosting of spreading consistency (frosting will
stiffen with chilling).

© Donna Monday
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