Reviewed: Feb. 12, 2012

Excellent brunch treat with the following changes: I used two-and-a-half cups of mashed ripe bananas, which comes out to the equivalent of six medium bananas; Sugar: 1 1/3 cups; Vegetable oil: 1/2 cup; Confectioners' sugar: 2 cups.

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yummy

Home Town: Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Reviewed: Dec. 14, 2010

Those are very good. MAde the same adjustments as others (2½ cups bananas, ½ cup oil, 1 cup sugar) and added a bit of almond extract (miammm!) Even with just one cup sugar these are quite sweet. Baked it in a smaller pan and it was thick enough and more like a cake so I could slice it in half and use frosting (I doubled the recipe for frosting) between the layers. Mmmm Mmmm good ! FROSTING : I did cut the amount of sugar by almost half and it was just perfect.

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myanka_dax

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Reviewed: Sep. 16, 2010

Excellent recipe. I added a teaspoon of vanilla extract. I didn't frost them because they were going on a roadtrip and using a jelly roll pan makes them the perfect size for snacking. Not as dense as banana bread and not exactly a bar cookie either, cut into small rectangle, they were wonderful and had a cake-like consistency. Next time, I think I will just put a simple white glaze on them, but frosting might make them too sweet.

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Shannon Sperry

Cooking Level: Expert

Living In: Independence, Missouri, USA

Reviewed: Feb. 10, 2010

This was good, I will definately make it again.

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Elissa

Reviewed: Dec. 19, 2009

The bar (cake) part of this was wonderful but the frosting was way to overwhelming! It was super super sweet and I am a sweet junkie. I would use a different recipe for frosting.

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Sara-3135

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Baudette, Minnesota, USA

Living In: Mound, Minnesota, USA

Reviewed: Oct. 12, 2009

I made so many desserts for Thanksgiving (Canadian) today. "5" Can you believe they are ALL AR. Yes, I would say I'm addicted. This was a favourite. I thought it sounded like it would be really good. It was - & even more so! Thanks Mary Sturgis for sharing the recipe.

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cynjne

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Cooking Level: Intermediate

Living In: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Reviewed: Oct. 1, 2009

Really rather quite good - I did make some changes based on a few of the other reviews (I only used one cup of sugar, 1/2 cup vegetable oil, and 2 1/2 cups of mashed bananas), but they still turned out quite good. I also made a cream cheese icing for these because I was in the mood for one, and I didn't have any orange juice on hand anyway. Really, really good, sort of like a banana version of a carrot cake. I suspect it would be very good with the orange icing as well, which I'll have to try next time. Definitely a great use for bananas if you're wanting to make something other than banana bread!

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