Winter is coming and what do you do in winter? You hibernate. It’s officially Fall now, which means that it is time to start preparing for winter. How do you prepare for winter and hibernation? You eat a lot of desserts. It’s the law, okay? I don’t make the laws, I just abide by them.
I should probably go ahead and apologize for the abundance of chocolate and oats recipes that I’ve been posting lately, but there is just something about the combination that makes me happy. I, obviously, have an addictive personality. I find something that I like and I make it until I can’t stand the thought of eating it ever again. Just ask my husband. The poor man has lived through a sloppy joe phase, a meat loaf phase, a Hamburger Helper phase (what is my obsession with ground beef?), and now he is trying to survive the current chocolate and oats phase. To be perfectly honest, I think this is his favorite obsession of mine so far. He just better pray that I don’t start adding the chocolate and oats to ground beef. Chocolate chip meat loaf, anyone?
These banana bread cookies satisfy both my need for chocolate and my new obsession with oats. With three whole bananas and two cups of oats, these little guys have at least some nutritional value, so quit glaring at me for making you fat.
My son, a true banana bread connoisseur, devoured half of these in the time it took me to shout at him to save one for his mama. To say he liked them is putting it mildly. I’m inclined to agree with him, these are so moist and flavorful, but be warned, you must have a nice tall glass of icy cold milk nearby. It’s another one of those laws I keep talking about.
I’m not sure if you can tell from the above photo, but the texture of these really is like banana bread. The flavor of the bananas is subtle, but it’s there and it’s delicious. If you’re one of those crazy people who enjoy nuts in their cookies, then I imagine these would be just divine with some diced walnuts thrown in the mix.
Try these. Fatten yourself up. It’s almost winter, after all.
Banana Bread Cookies
adapted from allrecipes.com
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 3 ripe bananas, mashed
- 2 cups rolled oats
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
In the bowl of your mixer cream together the butter and sugars until creamy. Beat in the eggs and vanilla. In a separate bowl stir together the flour, baking soda, cloves, and cinnamon. Add to the creamed mixture and mix well. Mix in the mashed bananas, oats, and chocolate chips until well incorporated. Drop by rounded spoonful (I used my cookie scoop) onto a greased or parchment lined cookie sheet and bake in a pre-heated 375 degree oven for 10 to 12 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.
| Tags: baking, chocolate, cookies, desserts 10 comments »
September 24th, 2009 at 3:51 am
These look great!
September 24th, 2009 at 6:37 am
This will give me something to do with the over ripe banana I have sitting on my counter at the moment. My husband adores banana bread and my daughter – well, if it looks like a cookie and shaped like a cookie, that is good enough for her.
You know – I thought about you the other night while I was making dinner – as I was frying slices of zucchini in bacon fat, from the the little pieces of bacon I had just cooked to go with the zucchini – oh so good!! LOL
September 24th, 2009 at 8:49 am
These look wonderful! You do a GREAT job with this site–I even added you to my blog roll.
September 24th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
As a fellow lover of banana, chocolate and oats, these cookies are right up my alley. Just wanted to mention too that I am holding a Cookie Cookbook Giveaway on my site through the end of September and would love to have you register to win if you are interested.
September 24th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Oh my goodness these look SOOO good! banana bread in cookie form?!?! good heavens! yum!
September 25th, 2009 at 12:30 am
O these look gorgeous! I do have a problem though with my husband being allergic to bananas so I hardly ever make anything with banana in them but I just might have to make these allll for myself!
September 27th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Found your blog today, your cookies looked so good, I made a batch! They were excellent, thanks for the recipe! I’m enjoying your blog.
November 26th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
I just finished making these and they are super good
January 10th, 2010 at 5:13 pm
I made these last week after finding them on your website. After coming home from work there were 3 left for me. My hubby loved them!
July 10th, 2010 at 10:32 am
Banana bread and chocolate chip cookies – what a great combo!