Don't throw away your overripened or sad
looking bananas. I'm going to show you
how to make a really quick and easy but
oh so delicious banana bread cookies.
This is only going to happen with six
ingredients.
The first being the bananas. Now, this
recipe is half of a recipe, so that
doesn't make a lot of cookies. I'm going
to be using one overripe and sad looking
banana. Now, you may have even more
overripe bananas like like this here. I
have another recipe for that that I'm
going to be bringing y'all. We're going
to start in a large mixing bowl. We're
going to place one overripe and sad
looking banana.
These are the best, you guys. If you
don't want to make banana bread, then
make the cookies. It's really simple and
easy.
It's going to make your house smell
delicious with these aromomas.
Now, what's great about this recipe is
that you can add nuts to it. You can add
chocolate chips to this recipe if you
want to do that. All right, we got our
one banana in there. We're going to grab
a fork,
mash it up. Want it nice and smooth.
Now, this banana has to go through all
the cookies. So, we want to make sure
it's nice and smooth.
That looks good. You can definitely
smell banana in there. We're going to
add half a stick or a/4 cup of melted
butter. Let's melt it.
Let's add it to the bananas.
All right, let's mix that in.
Now, butter is going to add a richness
to our cookies.
If you don't want to use butter, you can
certainly use your vegetable oil
in place of that. The oil is cheaper
than the butter, but the butter adds a
delicious flavor to it. All right, you
guys. We got that mixed up. Now, what
we're going to do is add in half a cup
of sugar, granulated sugar. Now, I'm
using cane sugar because it's less
processed than the white sugar. So,
y'all have been asking me that in the
comments.
So, we're just going to need half a cup.
We're going to stir that into the banana
and the butter.
All right. Now, I've switched out to a
whisk. Be easier to incorporate.
All right. We want a nice smooth batter.
Smells heavenly in there.
Now, you do need the sugar in here to
kind of offset the the bananas, the
sweetness of them, but you don't have to
add a full half a cup if you don't want
to. You can minimize that.
All right, let's get our dry
ingredients. There's only three. I'm
going to get a small sifter. I'm just
going to place it on top of the bowl.
And then we're going to add in one cup
of allpurpose flour. I'm going to go in
half a cup at a time. Start sifting that
in.
Now, you need the flour to hold together
the cookies.
Now, before I start really sifting the
flour in, I'm going to add in 1/4
teaspoon of salt
and then 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda.
That will help give a rise to the
cookies.
Hit it on the side here. Start sifting
that flour, baking soda, and salt in.
And the salt will help offset the
sweetness of the cookies and the
bananas. And then the baking soda will
help give a little rise to our cookies.
Let it snow. You know, that's what it's
fixing to do somewhere the next few
days.
I think we're expecting the rain and the
very, very, very cold weather. We're
even supposed to get down into the
teens,
so we will get ice. All right, we have
our flour in. And now we're going to
take a spatula and fold it in. You can
just kind of stir it to get it going.
We're not going to over mix. We just
want to make sure that the flour gets
incorporated.
Just pull down the sides with that
excess flour on it.
We'll do one final mix. We don't want to
over mix.
That's perfect right there.
You're going to need a sheet pan. Now,
I've lined mine with some parchment
paper. You're going to need a cookie
scoop or you can use a large tablespoon
if you want to do that. This is the one
and a half inch. So, it's kind of the
smallest one or I think there's a
smaller one, right? Yeah. So, we're just
going to go in
kind of scrape it off, flatten it off on
the edge like that. Can y'all see? And
then we're going to put it on our
parchment paper here. Now, as we're
putting the dough on the parchment, make
sure you leave room in between the
cookies because they will spread out.
Just like that. Flatten it out.
And I think that's what we're going to
get. How many cookies is that?
11.
Maybe we can get one more on there.
Let me move you over a little bit.
[snorts]
scraping for that 12th one, huh?
I am. There we go.
And that's going to be the one they
can't get out.
Yeah, [laughter] there we go.
It's softened up a little bit on us.
I've got my oven preheated at 350°.
We're going to bake these for 8 to 10
minutes until they're nice and crispy
and golden brown. crispy, I mean, on the
edges and golden brown on the top. And
then your house must smell amazing.
Almost like you made banana bread. All
right, I'll be back. I'm going to show
you how we're going to finish these off.
Now, when I say finish them off, I'm
talking about before we put them in the
oven. So, as the batter is in your bowl,
you're going to mix in the chocolate
chips or your walnuts or other types of
nuts that you want in your banana bread
cookies. That's optional if you're doing
that step. All right, I'll be back with
a nice warm banana bread cookie for you.
All right, you guys. Now, I put them in
for an extra two minutes because I felt
like they needed to be a little bit more
firm on the top. That's totally fine.
Check your cookies. I pulled them out of
the oven, let them sit on the sheetpan
for just a few minutes, two to three
minutes, before removing them to a wire
rack and let them sit for another few
minutes just to kind of firm up. That
way they hold their shape. Look at
these.
They're nice and plump cookies.
Nice and golden brown all the way around
the cookie.
Crispy on the edges.
Let's break it open.
Look at that.
Nice and pillowy on the inside.
Y'all, it smells like banana bread in
this house. That's what Thomas says.
I'm going to give this a try for you.
Oh, that smells amazing.
Make you 12 cookies
when they're nice and warm. Wow. You
know how that tastes.
Makes me want to slather butter on it.
[laughter]
I love a good piece of banana bread with
butter on it. Right. Melting in.
We got enough butter in there, though.
All right, you guys. Give me a thumbs up
on this one. Let us know the weather up
there wherever you're at. [snorts] All
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