Banana Cookies

I grew up around banana bread until I discovered banana cookies. These little gems are an easy to make soft delicious light cookie. Requiring only 1 banana, from beginning to end, these cookies take about 25 minutes to go from ‘pulling up this recipe’ to a ‘light sweet treat’.

Banana Cookie Recipe

Special Note: This recipe needs ‘softened butter’ or butter at room temperature (not melted butter but softened so that the batter can whip up light and frothy).

Ingredients:

• 1 1/8c flour

• 1 tsp baking powder

• 1/8 tsp baking soda

• 1/4 tsp salt

• 1/3c butter

• 1/2c sugar

• 1 egg

• 1/2tsp vanilla

• 3oz. mini chipits

• 1/2c mashed ripe banana

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F

2. Stir together in a small bowl flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl, mash ripe banana and set aside.

3. Cream together butter, sugar, egg and vanilla until light and fluffy.

4. Add sifted dry ingredients to the creamed mixture above and blend well.

5. Add mashed banana and chipits, stir to combine.

6. Drop by spoonful onto cookie sheets lined with reusable silicone sheet (or parchment paper). (Note: I use a very small ice cream scoop to get a small consistent size and shape).

7. Bake 8 - 10 minutes…check after 8 minutes…bake until just starting to brown. (Depending on the size of the cookies, makes about 12 - 16.)

8. Storage - if there are leftovers, I especially enjoy these little gems from a cookie tin I keep ‘hidden’ in the fridge...LOL!