these healthy banana bread bars are going to be perfect if you love banana
bread it's a quick easy recipe that tastes delicious
gluten-free grain free and full of good stuff for you so we are starting off
with some almond flour which is gonna make the base of this recipe I love
using almond flour because it's loaded with healthy fats which keep us
satisfied as well as vitamin E and tons of minerals
I'm adding in some baking powder which helps the bars kind of rise and develop
a bit and then we are going to be using some bananas of course and I always like
to extra ripen my bananas in the oven for a little bit this is a really great
hack to use to make the bananas a bit sweeter in your recipes it also really
softens them up a bit so it makes them easier to mash I simply pop them in the
oven at 350 for 10 minutes or until they have gone black like this and it really
does bring out the natural sweetness of the bananas and it makes an extra little
step but it does bring up the sweetness so I really like it to do it so mash
that up until it's all nice and smooth and then to that I'm gonna be adding in
some nut butter you can use any kind of nut or seed butter that you have almond
butter cashew butter even a hazelnut butter would taste delicious if you kind
of like the taste of Ferrero Rocher you would love a hazelnut butter in this so
just stir that up until everything is nice and smooth and then I'm going to be
adding in a little bit of vanilla for flavor as well as some eggs
now I haven't tried flax eggs in this recipe but if you do and it works let me
know we're gonna be adding three into there and what I love about this recipe
is that we are only using bananas as a natural sweetener so we're using a great
whole food and it's going to really give it that sweetness especially when we
bake them first it really helps to add sweetness to this recipe without having
to add any sugar so we kind of just mix everything up until all of our wet
ingredients are nice and combined and everything is smooth
and then I'm going to be pouring in my wet ingredients into the dry and we are
going to fold them together so this really is a great easy recipe this can
definitely be made into smaller bites as well if you don't want to make them into
bars you can cut them into smaller shapes so once you're wet and your dry
is combined go ahead and fold that together until all of the flour and the
wet ingredients have kind of mixed together and then we are also going to
be adding in some chocolate chips now you guys know I love the ones from
Kamino because there's only two ingredients cocoa and cocoa master
there's no added sugar which is perfect for this recipe but feel free to use the
ones you have on hand throw them in there and just gently fold them in I
lined a square baking pan with parchment paper which I highly suggest or at least
greasing it but the thing I like about parchment paper is that it really makes
it easy to lift off the bars after they've been baked and cut them up so
just gently spread that in to your corners and you can also make this into
any kind of shape that you want so if you don't have a perfectly square pan
and you only have a rectangle this will still work in your pan so just spread
that out and I always like to add kind of like a little bit of decoration on
the top of my bar so I just sliced up half a banana and I'm putting some of
the slices on top as well as some chocolate chips just to finish it off
and kind of make the top look really nice and pretty and then we're going to
bake it at 350 for about 35 minutes and then you can go ahead and slice your
bars they kind of like they taste like banana bread but more of a brownie kind
of consistency or a blondie consistency so it's kind of like the best of both
worlds you have banana bread you have a blondie and these taste so delicious and
definitely give you that banana bread feel so I hope you guys enjoyed those
healthy banana bread bars I will also leave my healthy banana bread recipe
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