Banana Bread Bars with Brown Butter Frosting

Okay everyone, get ready to change your pants because these banana bars are a 10 on the shit-your-pants scale. And that's all the explanation you need so go make these right meow.

Ingredients:
Banana Bread Bars:
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 cup sour cream
1/2 cup butter, softened
2 eggs
3 or 4 ripe bananas, mashed
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional. But I used them. So you should too. Unless you are allergic. Please don't in that case)

Brown Butter Frosting:
1/2 cup butter
4 cups powdered sugar
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 tablespoons milk

Directions: (Oh, I just though of New Directions and then got really sad. RIP Cory Monteith...)
Preheat your oven to 375 F. Grease a 10x15 inch cookie sheet (I saw it written as a jelly roll pan, and I had NO clue what that was. So I googled it. It's just a large cookie sheet. Am I making it very obvious that I'm Canadian?) Start with the ingredients for the bars. Beat together the sugar, sour cream, butter, and eggs in a large bowl until creamy.

As a side note, Whenever I have bananas that are getting a little on the brown side, I just chuck them in the freezer and take them out a little bit before I want to use them so they thaw out some. Once they are thawed they come out of the peel nice and easy (it's kind of gross actually).
Okay, so mix your gross bananas with the sugar/butter/egg etc. mixture along with the vanilla extract. Mix until well blended. Then add the flour, baking soda and salt and blend until just incorporated, about one minute. Stir in walnuts (which you should be using; allergies are the only exception in my opinion).

Spread the batter evenly into the pan (it should come up right to the top of the sides of the pan) and bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until golden brown on top.
Okay, while that sucker is in the oven, start making your frosting.
Put the butter in a large saucepan and heat over medium heat until boiling. Let it turn a delicate shade of brown...

... and then take it off the heat immediately. Make sure you don't let it burn! It's called BROWN butter frosting, not BURNT butter frosting.
Once off the heat, add the powdered sugar, vanilla extract and milk. Whisk together until very smooth but still thick.

Once the bars are out of the oven...

... Use a rubber spatula (or a yeetzlapel, for all my fellow Mennonites. Bad spelling, I know) and spread the icing on while the bars are still warm! I know that sounds weird (well, at least it did to me) but it's important! The icing will not slide off, don't you worry your pretty little head.

Now, you can let that cool off a bit before you dive in. And once you do, be warned, you will not be able to stop.

Just look at those things!! Ugh, I can't even handle it.

Don't say I didn't warn you...

xoxo

Ash

Recipe found via Pinterest on Life's Simple Measures