Buttery and sweet, this Banana Pecan Shortbread recipe is sure to solve your comfort food craving with ripe, sweet bananas, buttery shortbread, and crunchy pecans.
Prep Time 15 minutesminutes
Cook Time 30 minutesminutes
Total Time 45 minutesminutes
Servings 8
Calories
Author The Gracious Wife
Ingredients
1cupbuttersoftened
13.4 ounce box instant banana pudding
¼cupwhite sugar
2ripe bananas
2cupsflour
½teaspoonsalt
½cupchopped pecans
Whole Pecans for Top
Instructions
Heat oven to 300°
Grease a round 8-9" tart pan. Set aside
Add butter, pudding, sugar, bananas, flour, and salt to a mixing bowl. Beat until it becomes dough. It will be dry at first. Keep beating, it will come together and create a dough.
Fold in chopped pecans.
Press into prepared pan, and lightly score the dough into slices with the back of a table knife.
Top with whole pecans and gently press into the dough.
Bake for 30-35 minutes or until golden brown. Let cool for 10 minutes and remove from pan. Cut with a pizza cutter and cool completely.