Banana Monkey Bars

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What to do with those last two bananas? Make these quick and easy cookies! This uses a yellow cake mix as a base and adds lots of goodies on top. This recipe is from Camilla Saulsbury's book Cake Mix Cookies.

by mary winecoff·published 2007-09-11

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Bar Cookie

Servings

24 serving(s)

Total time

35 min

prep 10 min

Calories / serving

280 kcal

Ingredients (8)

serves

1 (18 1/4 ounce) box yellow cake mixyellow-cake-mix
1/3 cup vegetable oilvegetable-oil
1 large eggegg
1 cup nuts, chopped (I used pecans)
1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milksweetened-condensed-milk
1 cup banana, mashed (about 2 medium)banana
1 cup butterscotch chips or 1 cup milk chocolate chipsbutterscotch
1 1/3 cups sweetened flaked coconutcoconut

Instructions (12 steps)

01Preheat oven to 350°F
02Spray the bottom only of a 13 x 9 inch metal baking pan with nonstick cooking spray.
03In a large bowl beat cake mix, oil and egg until well blended and crumbly.
04Stir in nuts.
05Set aside 1 cup of the crumb mixture.

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