Today on Sugar Spun Run, I'll be showing you how to make banana cookies.
Hey Sugar Spun Bakers, Sam here! And today I am so excited to be sharing another carefully tested,
well researched and perfected recipe.
Today we are making banana cookies, and unlike many versions of banana cookies
that are thick and cakey, mine are nice and soft and chewy,
and I think you're absolutely going to love them.
Course we are loading them with chocolate chips and optional walnuts as well.
We're going to start with 2/3 cup of well mashed, nice, ripe bananas. For me,
this is usually about one and a half bananas,
so I'm going to toss that in my mixing bowl.
I just like to use a potato masher to mash the bananas.
And, again, you want to mash them really well.
And note that the riper your bananas are, the more flavorful
your banana cookies are going to be. All right,
once I have my bananas nicely mashed, I'm going to add my butter.
We are using 1 cup of melted, unsalted butter
for today's recipe. I love using melted butter
because it helps contribute to that thinner rather than cakier,
softer and chewier cookie that I was really aiming for
when I developed today's recipe. Next, we'll add 2/3 cup of granulated sugar.
And you'll also need 1 cup of brown sugar.
Now you can use all light brown sugar, if that's what you have on hand,
but, personally, I like to use a blend of about half dark brown sugar
and half a light brown sugar. I feel like it just adds a little more dimension to the cookies.
Next, we're going to need one egg yolk. And this is just the egg yolk.
We're going to discard the white because, again, that egg white
would contribute to making the cookies cakey, which we don't want here.
Add in that egg yolk. We're also going to add two teaspoons of vanilla extract
and we'll stir everything together until it's nicely combined.
That’s another nice thing about today's recipe is there's no mixer needed,
you can do everything by hand.
All right, so now that I have everything nicely combined here,
we're going to set this aside and we'll need a separate bowl for combining our dry
ingredients. We’ll start with 3 cups of all-purpose flour.
And we’ll add 2 tablespoons of cornstarch,
1/2 teaspoon of baking powder, a half
teaspoon of baking soda, 3/4 teaspoon of salt, and a 3/4 teaspoon of ground
cinnamon. Whisk everything together so it's nicely combined.
And then we'll bring back our banana mixture from earlier
and we're just going to gradually stir this in to our wet ingredients
until it's completely combined.
I like to do this in about three parts.
All right, now these cookies are great with chocolate chips,
so today I'm going to be adding one and a half cups of chocolate chips.
You can use milk chips or semi-sweet chips,
I am using a blend of both just because, again,
I like the dimension of flavor using two different kinds adds.
Now, whenever I make cookies that use chocolate chips,
many of you know, I like to reserve a few of those chips.
We're going to use them to make our cookies look nice and extra
pretty when they're finished baking. If you'd like, you can also add one cup of chopped walnuts
and that is what I'm going to be doing today.
We’ll stir this in as well and you want to just get everything nicely combined.
Alright, this dough is looking pretty good, so now I'm going to cover it with plastic wrap.
And, unfortunately, this dough is going to need to chill.
I like to pop it in the refrigerator for about 60 minutes before
baking it. Once you're ready to bake your cookies,
you can go ahead and pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
We'll go ahead and uncover our dough, and I have a parchment paper lined baking sheet here.
I'm just going to scoop the cookies by about one and a half tablespoon
sized scoops, and just drop that dough right on my baking
sheet. Now you can just drop the cookies, but if you're looking for more uniform, prettier cookies,
what you can do is you can actually take a scoop of the dough
and just gently roll it between your palms.
It is kind of a sticky dough, so your palms might get a little bit—
a little bit messy, but that's something you can do if you want
your cookies to look a little bit neater.
All right, once your oven is preheated, we'll go ahead and take these cookies over to our 350 °F
preheated oven where they’re going to need to bake for about 12 minutes.
Once the cookies are finished baking, you're going to want to let them cool
completely on their baking sheet before enjoying. Now
I did just want to point out that the cookie that we rolled between our palms
just came out a little bit neater
and a little bit rounder than the one next to it that we just dropped on the
cookie sheet. Now don't forget we reserve those chocolate chips from earlier.
While the cookies are still warm, like 1 to 2 minutes within
coming out of the oven, I like to just gently nestle
some chocolate chips on top, just makes them look extra pretty.
And that is how you make these nice, soft and chewy banana cookies.
I really hope you guys enjoy today's recipe, and if you try this one out,
please leave me a comment and let me know what you think.
I always love hearing from you. Thank you guys so much for watching and I'll see you next time.
Mmm. That's good.