Slimming World: Chocolate cinnamon banana bars

Last, but not least on my trio of banana baked goodies, was a tray bake.  Chocolate banana bars, I increased the cinnamon in this recipe – 1 tbsp, but even that wasn’t enough.  Go big or go home, chuck in a heap!

Other than that, this recipe stretched pretty far indeed!

A whopping 210 syns for the entire recipe, but this spanned over two 8×8 pans, both were sliced in half, and sliced into 8 for a total of 32 slices at 6.5 syns per slice.


Mario Batali's chocolate banana bars
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Ingredients
  • 2 cups flour (46 syns)
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder (1 syn)
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • ¾ cup low fat margarine (softened) (42 syns)
  • ⅓ cup splenda sweetner
  • 1 cup brown sugar (again I used splenda half and half) (24 syns)
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 cup mashed ripe bananas (about 4 bananas) (20 syns)
  • 1 Egg
  • 2 cups bittersweet chocolate chunks (77 syns)
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 16x12 sheet pan with Pam - I used two 8x8 pans instead.
  2. Using an electric mixer beat together butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar. Add the egg and continue to beat until fluffy.
  3. Add vanilla and bananas and continue to blend.
  4. In a separate mixing bowing combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt.
  5. Mix the dry ingredients into the wet mixture just until incorporate then stir in chocolate. Spread evenly in the prepared sheet pan.
  6. Bake for 20-25 minutes until edges are golden brown and springs back when pressed gently with your finger. Cool completely, garnish with powdered sugar and slice.