30 August 2010

Banana trail cookies

Summer, especially this summer, does little to encourage baking in a warm kitchen. But I had a couple over-ripe bananas and I'd been wanting to make cookies for some time. So, with the air conditioning on, I wrote this recipe for soft banana chocolate chip cookies.

Banana trail cookies

2 eggs
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
1 very ripe banana, mashed
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup white flour
1 cup wheat flour
1 cup granola (I used Kashi GoLean Crunch: Honey Almond Flax) 
1/2 bag semi-sweet chocolate chips (I used Ghirardelli)

Melt butter and dissolve brown sugar in it, let cool. Beat eggs, add sugar. Mix in butter/brown sugar, banana, vanilla, cinnamon, soda, powder and salt. Fold in flour until well mixed. Fold in granola and chocolate chips. Chill dough before dropping, tablespoon size, on cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes.

(Recipe by H. Farrell)

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