Meltaway Banana Bars With Pecans

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• 1 duncan hines yellow cake mix
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup butter
• 2 bananas
• 1 cup pecans, chopped

Recipe

• 1 you will be layering the ingredients on top of each other.
• 2 preheat oven to 350.
• 3 spray a 13 x 9 cake pan. best if sprayed, greasing does not work well for this recipe.
• 4 in a small saucepan combine brown sugar and 1/2 stick butter. heat till melted. add 1/2 cup chopped pecans to the brown sugar mixture. then cool so you can touch it. it will be a bit crumbly when cool.
• 5 first layer-pour half the dry yellow cake mix in the pan and spread out an even layer.
• 6 second layer- sprinkle the brown sugar mixture evenly over the cake mix. it will not completely cover every inch so don't worry.
• 7 third layer- layer 1/2 banana slices over the brown sugar mixture. do not let bananas touch each other.(this is important so the ingredients above the bananas has space to seep through them.).
• 8 fourth layer- pour the remainder of the dry yellow cake mix over the bananas,.
• 9 fifth layer- add the remainder of your bananas on top of the yellow cake mix. again, not letting the banana slices touch each other.
• 10 sixth layer- sprinkle the remainder of pecans on top.
• 11 melt the remaining 1 1/2 sticks of butter.
• 12 pour butter back and forth over the cake mix and pecans and bananas. it will not completely cover every inch. don't worry.
• 13 bake for 45 minutes.
• 14 cool completely before cutting into squares. they will be a little crumbly but will cut nicely when cooled.
• 15 serve in a bowl with butter pecan ice cream on top for a dessert, or serve them just by themselves with a glass a milk.