banana peanut butter cookies

Jacksonville, FL
Updated on Dec 16, 2013

I had a lot of bananas recently, and peanut butter was on sale. So there you go.

prep time 10 Min
cook time 10 Min
method Bake
yield 24 serving(s)

Ingredients

  • 3 cups all purpose flour
  • 2 medium over-ripe bananas, sliced
  • 1 cup creamy peanut butter
  • 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 2 large eggs, room temperature
  • 3/4 cup light brown sugar, packed
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • - dark chocolate chips, for garnish
  • - sea salt, for garnish

How To Make banana peanut butter cookies

  • Step 1
    Preheat oven to 350'F Set aside two clean cookie sheets.
  • Step 2
    In a medium mixing bowl, cream bananas,butter, peanut butter and sugar together until fluffy.
  • Step 3
    Beat in eggs into the banana/sugar mixture, one egg at a time, until both eggs are completely incorporated. Beat in vanilla.
  • Step 4
    In a separate mixing bowl, mix flour, salt and baking powder together with a fork.
  • Step 5
    Gradually mix flour mixture into the banana/sugar mixture. Mix until completely incorporated, but do not over mix.
  • Step 6
    Roll the dough into 1-inch balls and set onto ungreased cookie sheets. Sprinkle the balls with course seasalt lightly before putting into oven. Bake for 8-15 minutes, or until just golden. Remove cookies from oven. Press chocolate chips into cookies while they are still hot and soft. Cookies will harden as they cool. Cool for at least 10 minutes before attempting to remove hot cookies from cookie sheets.

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Category: Cookies
Keyword: #peanut
Keyword: #butter
Keyword: #banana
Keyword: #chips
Keyword: #Vanilla
Keyword: #chocolate
Ingredient: Fruit
Method: Bake
Culture: American

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