Friday Funday Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies

Who doesn’t love the combo of chocolate and banana? No one that’s who. So why not make bananas unhealthy by baking them into cookies. Or are we actually making cookies healthy by baking in bananas? While you figure that out I’m going to stuff my face with these delicious banana chocolate chip cookies.

Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies 

Ingredients:

• 1/3 cup butter
• ½ cup granulated sugar
• 1 egg
• ½ cup mashed banana (one whole banana)
• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
•  cup all-purpose flour
• ½ teaspoon baking powder
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 1/8 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup chocolate chips (a 6 oz bag)

 What to do:

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Using your electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until creamy (about a minute).
3. Beat in egg, vanilla and mashed banana.
4. Add sugar, flour, baking powder and soda, salt.
5. Once completely mixed (about two minutes) stir in chocolate chips.
6. Drop dough balls onto a greased pan (or parchment paper) and bake 11 minutes.

Tips

• Use a really ripe banana.
• Wait to mash the banana until right before you add it or else it will turn brown and get watery. That makes it lose flavor.

This is one of my easiest cookie recipes and I love that you can experiment with the ingredients. Why not try adding some nuts or some dried fruit?

Please share any variations on this recipe that you’d like to try! And be sure to check back next Friday Funday for an extra special brunch edition!