Do you ever have bananas sitting out that are just begging to be baked into something?  Like, the little brown spots are calling out to you…. “muffins!  banana bread!”.  Well, they do to me, anyway.

I saw this recipe posted on Instagram the other day and had some very vocal bananas and a little extra time on Sunday so I decided to try it out.  This is my variation, because we wanted to make it gluten-free.  I also try to keep the sugar content low so we don’t end up with 3 crazy monkeys terrorizing the house.  But, seriously, the original website stands up so well on it’s own and the recipe creator’s website is awesome, lots of great stuff!

We do use Swerve (Erithrytol) in a lot of our baking which is a great alternative to sugar.  It’s available from Thrive Market and most health food stores.

They were a really delicious dessert!  And truthfully, we had some with our breakfast the next day, too. Yummm.

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Frosted Banana Bread Bars*

Ingredients:

• 4 overripe bananas, mashed
• 1/2 cup softened butter
• 1/2 cup Swerve sugar alternative OR coconut sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 1/2 cups einkorn flour or gluten-free flour mix
• 1 cup quick oats
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt

Directions:

Pre-heat oven to 375º.  Great a 9×13 pan (I like Carrington Farms Ghee Spray from Thrive Market)**

Mix dry ingredients together an set aside.

Cream butter and sugar together with an electric mixer.  Add bananas, eggs, sour cream and vanilla and mix well.

Slowly add in dry ingredient and mix until well incorporated without over-mixing.

Bake for about 25 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.

Let cool, frost, and enjoy!

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For the frosting:

Ingredients:

• 4 oz. cream cheese
• 3/4 cup heavy whipping cream
• 1/2 cup Swerve powdered sugar alternative or powdered sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla

Beat the cream cheese with an electric mixer until smooth.  Add the Swerve/sugar and vanilla and mix well.  Add the cream and beat until stiff peaks form.

*This recipe is adapted from another AWESOME recipe.  The original recipe can be found RIGHT HERE.

**This post contains affiliate links.

Enjoy!

<3

Shannon