Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies

What do you do with almost rotten bananas? Make cookies!

The lucky recipient of these cookies was our friend who just had a baby. If you’ve noticed, we have a lot of friends with babies! I like to bake for them. Especially cookies or bars or loaf breads that aren’t too bad for you. Comforting, filling, tasty, and easy to eat is what it’s about.

Bananas + chocolate chips + oats = the major parts of this cookie.

Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

• 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1/2 cup light brown sugar, packed
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 1.5 banana, mashed (could do one large or 2ish small), about 1 cup mashed
• 1 ¼ cups all purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 2 C old fashioned oats
• 1 C semisweet chocolate chips

Directions:

• In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl, combine butter and sugars, mix until smooth. Add in vanilla extract and egg. Next, add the banana. Beat well.
• Slowly add in flour mixture until just combined. Stir in oats and chocolate chips.
• Drop cookie dough by heaping tablespoonfuls 2 inches apart onto baking sheets that have been lined with parchment paper or Silcone baking mats.  Bake at 350 degrees F for 15-18 minutes or until golden. Remove cookies from pans; cool completely on wire racks.

Makes about 45 small cookies

These cookies were really cute and fluffy. Sometimes I don’t like banana flavor in a cookie or any desserts, but this was mild and helped keep it from drying out. It also kept it really soft, even after I froze them.

And bananas are healthy, right? But really, baking with bananas helps add sweetness and wetness without using sugar or oil.

For all my cookies, I use a little teaspoon cookie scooper that makes them a perfect size. About four little bites.

A nice, little, golden brown chocolate oatmeal cookie. Yum!

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