Lindsay Weiss Scores with Banana Desserts

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BY OWEN MORRIS

Lindsay Weiss of Overland Park is one of twelve finalists for Cooking Light‘s Ultimate Reader Recipe Contest. Cooking Light, which bills itself as the “world’s largest food and healthy lifestyle magazine,” chose Weiss’ dessert recipe of roasted banana bars with browned butter pecan frosting.

If this sounds vaguely familiar that’s because Cooking Light‘s sister magazine, Southern Living, chose Weiss as the winner of its sixth annual cook-off this past December for her original recipe, roasted banana ice cream with warm peanut butter sauce. “My family thinks it’s so funny both recipes feature bananas … we were a little worried the first recipe was a one-hit wonder,” Weiss told me.

When I asked Weiss if these were family recipes, she started laughing and admitted that she hadn’t even tried making the banana bars with browned butter pecan frosting until she submitted the recipe.