Ingredients:

• Banana.Bananas bring natural sweetness, happy, familiar flavors, and moisture to baked goods. You’ll love the way they blend seamlessly with the other ingredients in these blondies. Plus, bananas are packed with potassium and fiber.
• Flour.To make these blondies more wholesome, I used a combination of all-purpose flour and white whole wheat flour, which offers whole grain benefits like additional fiber and nutrients. You won’t even notice the swap.
• Brown Butter.Browning butter intensifies its flavor (so it tastes even more buttery!) and adds a delightfully nutty nuance. Those cute brown specs in the frosting? That’s the browned butter bits. Once you taste it, you’ll want to brown butter everything.
• Honey. It stands in for most of the sugar and tastes magical with bananas and cinnamon.
• Brown Sugar. A key ingredient for making blondie-style brownies like these.
• Cinnamon. A dash of cinnamon in banana bread anything is mandatory. Fact.
• Baking Powder + Baking Soda. Baking soda is necessary anytime you are using honey in place of all or some of the sugar in a recipe (in baking science, it reacts with the honey’s acidity). Because I like my bar desserts like this one to be sky-high and ultra thick, I also added baking powder to help the brownies rise.

 Directions:

1. Toast the walnuts in the oven at 350 degrees F for 8 to 10 minutes, then chop them. Mash the banana in a big bowl.
2. Brown the butter, then add it to the bowl with the banana.
3. Whisk in the remaining wet ingredients. No mixer needed!
4. Combine the dry ingredients in a bowl, then add them to the wet mixture. Stir until the flour disappears, then add…

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