I recently won a nice little silpat from Teresa over at A Blog About Food. (Thanks Teresa!!) I've been planning to break it in making some buttermilk biscuits, but I didn't have enough ingredients to really bake anything. I did however have some over-riped bananas that needed to be eaten. I had just enough sugar and butter to make a half recipe for banana nut bread. Then that go me thinking once again. Why not try to form them into cookies?
I mixed up the ingredients and scooped out a tablespoon worth onto my lovely new silpat and baked away. I had to watch these a little carefully because I had not idea how long they would cook for. But it wasn't too long a wait. Roughly 10 minutes to get that dark color crust, but have that soft bread texture inside. With tiny chunks of banana with a mix of walnuts. It was really tasty. Perfect snack instead of have a big muffin ot huge slice of bread.
Makes roughly 2 dozen.
Banana Nut Cookie
1/4 c granulated sugar
1/4 c brown sugar
1 egg
1/3 c butter or margarine
1 c flour
2/3 tsp salt
1/3 c chopped walnuts
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
2 ripe bananas mashed
Preheat your oven to 350˚F
In a bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt. Set aside.
In another large bowl, cream both sugars with the butter. The thoroughly mix in the egg. Slowly add in the flour mixture. Again thoroughly combine. The mix in the mashed banana and walnuts. Mix together.
Prepare your baking sheet lined with either some parchment paper lightly greased underneath it or a silpat. Scoop about 1 1/2 tablespoon of batter onto the baking sheet. Make sure they are evenly spaced. Bake for 10 minutes or until slightly dark brown in color.
