Banana Blondies Recipe

Cream together
3/4 cup butter or margarine (softened)
2/3 cup sugar
2/3 cup brown sugar (Or any combination of the 2 sugars as long as it measures out to 1 and 1/3 cup)

Add, mixing well
1 egg (Powder Egg Replacer works excellent)

Beat in
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 ripe bananas (If you have 3 ripe bananas, please, don't leave one all lonely on the counter!) (Feel free to mash them ahead of time if you don't mind extra dirty dishes, otherwise I just use the mixer to do the work for me.)

Mix in
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt

Sift, then add and mix well
2 cups flour

Stir in
2 - 3 cups of chocolate chips depending on how much you have on hand (If you have a sturdy hand mixer, it works well to stir in the chocolate chips) (You can also use a combination of butterscotch chips, peanut butter chips or whatever else you have on hand)

Spread into a greased 9 x 13 pan.
Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes.
DO NOT OVERBAKE!
Let cool.
Enjoy!

If you like to "live on the edge" here is a yummy frosting that pairs quite delightful with these bars.

For Frosting, Cream together
1/4 cup butter or margarine
1/4 shortening (if you don't want to mess with the shortening, use 1/2 cup butter)
1/4 peanut butter
4 cups confectioners sugar

Beat in till smooth
1/4 milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
dash of salt

Lick beaters!
Frost bars...or not! Let others make the choice to have the frosting or not. Whatever floats your boat and allows you to sit down with a nice beverage, a full plate of blondies while listening to your favorite music! Yum!

Remember...this is just a guideline.