| Banana
chocolate chip cookies -- mmmmm!
By C. Ann Jensen
April 17, 2008 | You bought
a bunch of bananas and after a few days you forgot about
them so now you are stuck with two brown bananas. Most
people give themselves two options here, throwing them
away or freezing them "to make smoothies" which we all
know never happens and by the end of the semester your
freezer has about a dozen frozen black bananas in it.
Well now you have something to do
with those last two bananas, make chocolate chip cookies.
Sounds crazy but by using bananas as the base for your
cookie dough instead of two sticks of butter you are
not only saving your heart from a massive heart attack
a few years from now but you are also saving yourself
from a freezer full of black bananas.
This recipe is not delicious but
low fat as well, so you can eat well and not pack on
the pounds. It is also a very good recipe to use add
it what you like your cookies. You don't have to use
chocolate chips. Add in a half cup of chopped walnuts
or a 1ž4 cup of flax seed to get some Omgea-3 fatty
acids into your afternoon snack.
What you will need:
1ž2 cup All purpose flour (1ž4 all purpose and 1ž4 whole
wheat works as well)
1ž4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 1ž2 cup rolled oats
5 tablespoon margarine (or butter)
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1ž2 cup purede bananas
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Chocolate chips (as many as you want)
- Preheat oven to 350 F
-Sift dry ingredients together in a bowl
- melt the margarine and add sugars, vanilla, and bananas
together in a separate bowl
-combine both bowls together into one bowl
-once ingredients are combined fold in chocolate chips.
-spray nonstick coating on a pan and scoop tablespoon
sized dough onto pan
-cook for 10-15 minutes or until they are a light golden
brown color.
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