Banana Cookies

Moms Old Recipe Banana Cookies 

It's a couple of weeks into January and I've finally got all of the Christmas decorations taken down and put away. Not bad considering last year we didn't get the second Christmas tree down until the middle of April. 

So with nothing to do and a snowy day perfect for staying inside I thought I might spend some time in the kitchen. Decided to organize my mothers recipe box and came across a recipe that sounded yummy, Banana Cookies and I just happened to have a very ripe nanner to put in it. Funny I don't ever remember my mom baking these but then again I don't think that she fixed even half the recipes in that box. That's OK because I'm going to try a few of them. We found a potato pancake recipe that Mark made for dinner that I'll post another time so stay tuned for that in the near future. 

Moms old recipe box.

Banana Cookies

1 cup Flour

1 teaspoon Baking Powder

1/8 teaspoon Baking Soda

1 6" Banana (ripe & brown)

1/3 cup Butter (recipe calls for margarine but I refuse to use it, it is after all 1 molecule away from being plastic)

1/2 cup Sugar

1 large Egg

1 teaspoon Vanilla (this wasn't on the original ingredients list, but upon seeing vanilla in the directions I guessed and used 1 tsp, it worked out fine) 

Cinnamon Sugar topping

1 Tablespoon Sugar 

1/4 teaspoon Cinnamon

Mix them together, sprinkle on the top of cookies before baking.

Sift together flour, baking powder & baking soda. Set aside. Beat Banana with a mixer on high until pureed. Add butter,sugar, egg and vanilla (see I told you the recipe said vanilla even if ingredient list didn't) mix at medium speed until blended.  Add flour mixture, beat at low speed until blended. Drop by level Tablespoons a few inches apart, onto greased cookie sheets ( I used dark cookie sheets with silicone baking mats). Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar mixture. Bake at 400* for 12 minutes or until lightly browned ( I only baked mine for 8 minutes since I was using dark baking sheets). Let rest on pan for a minute and then remove to cooling racks to cool. 

Sliced up nanners.

Beating the little suckers up. 

 Pureed nanners.

 Pureed nanners with butter, sugar, eggs & vanilla added.

 Above ingredients mixed together.

Now add sifted flour, baking powder & baking soda.

All of the ingredients combined.

 Drop by rounded spoonfuls onto cookie sheet.

 Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar mixture.

 Bake at 400* 8 minutes if on brown cookie sheet, recipe says 12 minutes but these would have burned on these dark pans had I baked them that long. 12 minutes might work on a silver cookie sheet. 

Oh so Soft & Yummy they taste just like banana bread.

We loved these cookies and there was only 1 left by the next morning but the recipe did only give us 18 cookies. These would be even better with a White Chocolate genache on top or White Chocolate Chips in the recipe or Mark suggested frosted, in either case I would omit the cinnamon sugar on top.