Delicious banana brownies! A straightforward recipe for homemade chocolate brownies gets a wonderful banana flavor boost from mashed bananas. No mixer is necessary.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 35 mins |
| Total Time: | 50 mins |
| Servings: | 16 |
| Yield: | 16 squares |
Ingredients
- ½ cup unsalted butter
- ⅔ cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 1 large egg
- ⅔ cup packed light brown sugar
- 1 small ripe banana, mashed
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¾ cup all-purpose flour
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease an 8-inch square baking pan.
- Melt butter in a saucepan over medium-low heat. Remove from the heat and stir in chocolate chips until melted. Set aside to cool for 5 minutes.
- While the chocolate mixture is cooling, lightly beat egg in a medium bowl. Stir in brown sugar, mashed banana, vanilla, and salt until well combined.
- Stir cooled melted chocolate mixture into banana mixture until well combined. Stir in flour until just incorporated. Spread batter into the prepared pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven until the top is dry and the edges have started to pull away from the sides of the pan, about 30 minutes.
- Let pan cool on a wire rack before cutting into 16 squares.
- Add 1/2 cup chopped nuts or mini chocolate chips if you like.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 151 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 19 g |
| Cholesterol | 27 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 1 g |
| Saturated Fat | 5 g |
| Sodium | 85 mg |
| Sugars | 14 g |
| Fat | 8 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I baked these twice in the last 2 weeks. So good. I add baking powder so it s more like a cake. Delicious, moist and perfect !
So delicious..I doubled the recipe and not sure where I went wrong as it came out crumbly!! The taste is phenomenal!!
the first time I made it I followed the recipe exactly as written. it tasted more banana bread than brownie VERY light chocolate flavor 2-3 stars. I tried the recipe again but with a full cup of Chocolate Chips and a 1/4 C of cocoa powder and it was AMAMZING!!!
The flavor of the brownies was tasty. The texture was much drier than I expected. I will try it again with a second egg.
Love it!!! Easy to make!
Fudgy consistency, but tbh the banana made it a little weird. Would prefer a basic brownie I think.
My 7yo son loved it. The directions were very easy even for someone who has not much experience in the kitchen like me. The first time I’ve made it, I didn’t have proper baking materials so I used a disposable aluminum tray. The turn out was perfect. But the second time, I used an 8” loaf pan and baked it for 30 minutes for 325 degrees as instructed but it was undone in the middle. I baked for another 10 and came out fudgy but was still very good.
I had 2 bananas to use up so I added a second egg as well. Baked in a glass 11X7″ dish. Increased baking time to 35 minutes. The result was fudgy and moist. Definitely will make again.
Amazing! My kids loved them and they were soooo easy to make. Will definitely make again
Delicious! And very easy to make it! My kids loved it
I was craving for brownies but I also had bananas on hand so I looked for banana brownies and this recipe came up! I substituted chocolate chips with 1/2 cup of chocolate powder because that’s what I had on hand and I added 2 eggs in total after reading the recipe submitter’s edit. Added a total of 3 mashed bananas since I needed to moisten it from the addition of the chocolate powder, and one sliced midway on the long side as a topping. I tend to keep my recipes relatively low in sugar, about 1/2 cup brown sugar. It’s not overwhelmingly sweet so it makes you going back for more! It’s about between fudgy and cakey consistency. This made 10 muffins and one very happy family!
Awesome w Gloria Lee’s Changes!
Yum.
Amazingly moist, rich and delicious, as well as super easy. They’re even good without the walnuts. Served with frozen vanilla yogurt.
I’ve only had a little taste so far as they just came out of the oven, but I would diffidently recommend if you have banana’s that are going bad and you just don’t care for boring banana bread (which I am so sick of). They don’t call for much banana and I had over 5 banana’s that are going old, so I added two banana’s and didn’t change the recipe at all besides that. I also put the brownies into a mini cupcake tin which helped them cook faster and they become more crunchy (if you like crunchy food like me). Diffidently would recommend.
Very yummy!! Not too sweet and was so
I double this recipe and bake in a 9×13 pan using the original poster’s adjustments per her comment. It comes out to sweet glorious perfection every time! I think the only change I make is to use a little extra banana for the extra banana flavor (my personal taste). The double recipe in the 9×13 does require a little extra time in my experience; 40-50 has been the winner, testing every few minutes around the 40 minute mark. I have never been particularly good at baking, but this is one recipe I can handle that has never turned out less than perfect!
I doubled the recipe as I did not have an 8×8″ pan, I also mixed ideas from another recipe, used cocoa powder instead of the chocolate squares and added baking powder. I am in Thailand so large bananas are not often available. Bananas here are smaller and thin skinned but often sweeter. I used 3 bananas, the result was good moist, slightly more cake like brownies.
Delicious ! Moist and yummy!
Love this recipe! Can’t wait to try again with your new adjustments. Congrats on your State Fair win! Thanks for sharing!
Great recipe! Thanks. I’ll definitely make it again and again. I use less flour, butter and sugar, more banana and added cacao powder. It tastes so great!