Bananas in Pajamas
Okay, they're not really pajamas. They're actually tiny paper wrappers. But the important part is the
banana. Everyone loves good old banana bread: with chocolate chips, walnuts, cinnamon sugar, whatever.
What I made is banana bread's sexier younger sibling. Banana bread cookie bites. You read that correctly. It's a cookie dough that tastes exactly like banana bread and it's in a mini-muffin cup. It's full of chocolate chips and walnut pieces and I dare you to eat just one or two. Or five.
The best part is, these take practically no time at all. The recipe is beyond easy and because they're baked at 400 degrees, they only take a few minutes. You can also shape these as regular cookies and they're equally good. I just happen to like things better when they're put into a pretty wrapper.
Be careful not to overbake these however because they will get dried out and taste like nothing. Also resist the urge to load up toooo much on the chocolate chips because then there won't be any banana filling left and that's actually not a good thing in this case.
You could eat these for breakfast and not think about the fact that they're basically cookies if you wanted, by the way. No judgment here.
Makes about 3 dozen.
Ingredients:
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup white sugar
2/3 cup butter, softened
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup mashed bananas
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
1 cup crushed walnuts
Preheat oven to 400F. Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt together. Set aside.
Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, then beat in the eggs and vanilla. Mix in the mashed bananas.
Add the flour mixture, and stir until just combined. Stir in the chocolate chips. Drop by spoonfuls into mini-muffin wrappers.
Bake for 7 to 9 minutes, or until the tops are golden brown and a cake tester comes out clean.
