I do not understand why they're so cheap, but I am getting a little bit tired of sending squishy black bananas down the disposer. So I figur'd, since you can make bread from bananas, along the same lines, why not banana cookies?
Internet search: [+"banana cookies"] = 8,880,000 results. Appears a few other people had this same idea. |
The recipe I looked at didn't have vanilla. Can you believe that? NO VANILLA !!!! Well, that's just ridiculous. It also has 1/2 teaspoon clove powder. That's ridiculous too. Plus 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg. Ridiculous! It's clear this grandma doesn't understand spices, or she's just being ridiculous. Don't you think 1/2, 1/2, 1/2, is just a little bit too arbitrary when it comes to spices? Com'on Grandma, get with the program.
I adjusted the spices. As always. Added vanilla to my hearts content. Backed off from the nutmeg and the clove (too overwhelming). Added powdered ginger, because Iiiiiiiieye LIKEIT !
Nana Cookies ← See what I did there? Dun made a pun on Grandma+banana. This is somebody's grandmother's recipe, not mine.
Set oven at 350℉
* 1/2 Cup butter
* 1 Cup sugar (I used 50% / 50% brown sugar / raw sugar)
↑ cream that by whiping
* 1 egg (the egg I used was produced by some gigantic megaornithiform I think that might have thrown things off a little bit so I stiffened my dough with a few tablespoons extra flour which would also tend to dull the flavor, thus I upped the ginger which this recipe does not call for.)
↑ Goezinta that cream up mixture and also gets creamed.
* I changed the beater thingies from wires whippers to plastic mixers on account'a it seemed like a good idea.
* 1 Cup tired, worn out, dilapidated, blackened, squishy bananas
* 1 teaspoon baking soda
↑ wait 2 minutes for the baking soda to activate then goezinta creamed butter/sugar/egg mixture
* 2 Cups flour
* pinch of Himalayan sea salt from the highest reaches of Tibet. I keed, I keed.
* 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
* 1/2 tsp. mace or nutmeg
* 1/2 tsp. clove powder
↑ Sift separately, then goezinta the wupped up mix
* 1 Cup of pecans (substitute walnuts or chocolate chips, whatev )
↑ Goezinta the total mixture by folding
* 1/2 Cup butter
* 1 Cup sugar (I used 50% / 50% brown sugar / raw sugar)
↑ cream that by whiping
* 1 egg (the egg I used was produced by some gigantic megaornithiform I think that might have thrown things off a little bit so I stiffened my dough with a few tablespoons extra flour which would also tend to dull the flavor, thus I upped the ginger which this recipe does not call for.)
↑ Goezinta that cream up mixture and also gets creamed.
* I changed the beater thingies from wires whippers to plastic mixers on account'a it seemed like a good idea.
* 1 Cup tired, worn out, dilapidated, blackened, squishy bananas
* 1 teaspoon baking soda
↑ wait 2 minutes for the baking soda to activate then goezinta creamed butter/sugar/egg mixture
* 2 Cups flour
* pinch of Himalayan sea salt from the highest reaches of Tibet. I keed, I keed.
* 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
* 1/2 tsp. mace or nutmeg
* 1/2 tsp. clove powder
↑ Sift separately, then goezinta the wupped up mix
* 1 Cup of pecans (substitute walnuts or chocolate chips, whatev )
↑ Goezinta the total mixture by folding
I chilled my mixture on account'a the butter. My mixing bowl sits atop some gears and tends to get warm when left to run. I feared the butter might'a melted. Great for bread, but for cookie dough, eh, not so much.
Spoon onto baking sheet + parchment paper, smash down a little bit with your fingers, unless you like 'em to be like little turtles. Tray goezinta the oven. Bake 11--13 minutes.
Dropped by the teaspoon, this produces 36 - 40 cookies depending on how full you scoop with the teaspoon. This is all very highly fungible.
Spoon onto baking sheet + parchment paper, smash down a little bit with your fingers, unless you like 'em to be like little turtles. Tray goezinta the oven. Bake 11--13 minutes.
Dropped by the teaspoon, this produces 36 - 40 cookies depending on how full you scoop with the teaspoon. This is all very highly fungible.
2 comments:
How were they?
All my banana cookie attempts seem to turn out gooey. Now banana *cake*, that's perfection. But my cookies...
Scrumpdilicious. I recommend them.
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