Reviewed: Jun. 3, 2009

I followed the suggestions of the other two reviewers and used a full cup of rum and a full cup of banana. Unfortunately and confusingly, these squares had almost no taste at all. The texture, however, was amazing. Exactly what a banana recipe should feel like in your mouth. I'm going to try this again with even more bananas, maybe no rum so that there's no competition for taste, and see if it's more flavorful.

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Reviewed: Feb. 22, 2009

Very cool name! There's nothing better than saying "I'm hungry. Where are the monkey bars?" Loved the raisins, used half whole wheat flour, the banana part was great (I'd maybe add a full banana next time), but my walnuts were a bit stale - use FRESH walnuts!! My inner child is screaming that chocolate chips in here too would truly make them 'monkey' bars :)

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Reviewed: Jun. 13, 2008

I used about 1/2 cup of rum in the batter instead of the tablespoon. There was a light rum flavor to the bread afterwards but still nothing terribly strong. I made this into bread instead of bars, and it was a decent loaf that got eaten quickly by the roommates.

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