Wanna Green Bean

4 June 2008

Bananas Coming Out of My Monkey's Head

I keep making all this stuff that I don’t really like. For example, bananas. Yes, I don’t like bananas, you can hate me now. I know I make quite a few things with bananas in them, like banana bread. What can I say, I cook for my friends, who really like bananas.

Oh and my monkey cookie jar does too.

These cookies are more like tiny cakes than a traditional crispy cookie. They’re moist, soft and slightly chewy, with just enough banana flavor (or at least I’m told).

Ingredients:

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (300g)
1/4 teaspoon baking soda (2g)
1/4 teaspoon salt (2g)
3/4 cup brown sugar, packed (130g)
2 Tablespoons brown sugar (22g)
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon (2g)
1/2 cup butter (113g)
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract (2ml)
1/4 teaspoon banana extract (2ml)
2 eggs
3 ripe bananas, mashed
1/3 cup chopped walnuts, toasted (optional) (40g)

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.

Sift together the flour, baking soda, and salt.

Beat together the 3/4 cup (130g) of brown sugar and butter, vanilla and banana extract. Mix until light.

Add the eggs and mix until fluffy.

Mix in the mashed bananas.

Slowly add the flour mixture to the sugar, egg, butter, banana mix.

Fold in the nuts (I didn’t have any nuts, so no nuts this time)

Drop by the teaspoon onto a prepared baking sheet. Try to keep them as round as possible, the thin parts just burn.

Sprinkle the cookies with a mixture of the 2 tablespoons of brown sugar and cinnamon. (I forgot this step, oops.)

Bake 8-10 minutes until lightly browned on the edges. The tops of these will not brown.

Let them firm up on the baking sheet for a moment before transferring them to racks to cool.

Eat.

Ingredients:

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (300g)
1/4 teaspoon baking soda (2g)
1/4 teaspoon salt (2g)
3/4 cup brown sugar, packed (130g)
2 Tablespoons brown sugar (22g)
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon (2g)
1/2 cup butter (113g)
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract (2ml)
1/4 teaspoon banana extract (2ml)
2 eggs
3 ripe bananas, mashed
1/3 cup chopped walnuts, toasted (optional) (40g)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
2. Sift together flour, baking soda and salt.
3. In a small bowl, combine 2 tablespoons brown sugar with cinnamon, set aside.
4. Beat together the remaining 3/4 cup brown sugar, butter, vanilla and banana extract until light and fluffy.
5. Beat in the eggs, and then add the mashed bananas.
6. Slowly stir in the flour mixture.
7. Fold in the chopped nuts, if using.
8. Drop by the teaspoonful onto the baking sheet. Sprinkle with the brown sugar/cinnamon mixture.
9. Bake 8-10 minutes until lightly browned around the edges.

1. Let the cookies cool a moment on the baking sheet before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.

These nutrition facts were calculated using the recipe analyzer from Calorie Count at about.com, they are approximations, as in scientists have not evaluated this specific cookie for nutritional value, so use them as guidelines. Thanks!

Tags: baked, cookies, dessert, fruit, snacks

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