My Banana Custard Cream Blondies are a great way of combining biscuits and cake in one delicious treat. Give them a try, you will not be disappointed.
Banana and custard is such an old fashioned pairing. Of course it is a simple dessert, but it just works in terms of flavours. Seeing as though I am always looking for new ways of using up over ripe bananas, these melt-in-the-mouth Banana Custard Cream Blondies are a yummy way of doing so.
Blondies, like brownies, are very yummy and although I do not make them as often as their milk or dark chocolate counterparts, they are very moreish.
I have been wanting to make some custard cream blondies for some time now, but usually the biscuits would get eaten before I got the chance to bake with them.
However, this time I go to them first and along with some over ripe bananas that I had, I decided that seeing was though banana and custard go so well together, there was no reason why this would not work in a blondie too.
It totally does work too, because these were extremely tasty and the banana makes the blondies moist and as I do not add too much sugar to my blondie batter, these are not too rich, sweet or sickly either.
If you fancy giving them a go yourself, then here is the recipe.
Recipe for Banana Custard Cream Blondies
- 175g butter
- 250g light muscovado sugar
- 4 tbsp custard powder
- 2 x small or 1 large over ripe bananas
- 2 eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 250g self rising flour
- 1 x 400g packet of custard creams , ½ the packet broken up into big crumbs/tiny chunks and the remaining ½ left whole
- 150g white chocolate drops or small chunks
- Pre-heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas
- Grease and line a 20 x 30cm brownie square tin
- In a pan, melt the butter, sugar and custard powder gently in a large pan, and add the banana/s and squash it into the mixture
- Once the mixture is smooth and you can’t feel any grains of sugar, remove from the heat and leave it to cool for 5 minutes.
- Now add the eggs, one at a time, and stir the mixture until it is smooth.
- Now add the vanilla and the flour.
- Add the crushed custard cream biscuits, along with the white chocolate, and mix well.
- Pour the batter into your tin, and add the intact custard creams to the top of the brownie base. Ideally, 1 per portion.
- Bake for 25-35 minutes until golden on top and just set.
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Squeal!!! Thank you so much for featuring my Pain au Chocolat!!! I’m loving the roundup. It’s all I seem to want to do at the moment, just bake and eat!!! So pinning all the recipes! Thank you for hosting ❤️
The blondies look fab. I don’t think I’ve ever baked with biscuits before, beside a cheesecake, of course. I should give it a try.
OMG i think i would love these.
Ooh those blondies do look good and what a fun idea to use custard powder. I’m having problems linking up again. Hope it’s OK to leave my link here. https://tinandthyme.uk/2018/11/earl-grey-orange-fruit-cake/
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[…] Easy are. 2. I was first drawn to Jenny’s blog by how creative her recipes are – These Banana Custard cream Blondies are a perfect example – I would love 10 minutes inside her head! 3. Great to see a savoury […]
These blondies look perfect Jenny and I’m sure they taste divine! I love the fact that you’ve been very generous with the custard creams – girl after my own heart! 😉 x