Name: Black-Bottom Banana Dream Bars
Yield: Makes 16 Bars
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: ¼ cup [45 g] mini semisweet chocolate chips; 1 cup [60 g] sweetened shredded coconut; 1 cup [130 g] chopped ripe bananas; ½ tsp table salt; 1 cup [120 g] walnuts, toasted and finely chopped; ¼ cup [30 g] cake flour; ½ tsp baking powder; ¾ cup [150 g] packed light brown sugar; 2 tsp pure vanilla extract; 2 eggs; 7 Tbsp [105 g] unsalted butter, melted; 2 Tbsp granulated sugar; 9 oz [255 g] crisp chocolate wafer cookies

Preparation info

Makes
16
Bars

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Vintage Baker

By Jessie Sheehan

Published 2018

About

Dream bars are the less-layered ancestor of the seven-layer or magic bar. Here, I riffed on the Coconut Dream Squares from Baker’s Chocolate and Coconut Favorites (1962), replacing the shortbread crust with a chocolate cookie crumb one and adding a bit of salt (like so many of the vintage recipes revamped here, the original called for none), diced banana, just a few mini chocolate chips (because...chocolate), and deeply toasted walnuts for good measur