Banana Cookies

I was thinking of what to do with the 3 overly-ripe bananas, when I decided to make cookies with it. After searching for a suitable recipe online for a long time, i settled down with: Zoridream's Banana Drops recipe.

I changed the recipe a little, due to the lack of certain ingredients such as ground cinnamon, banana extract and nuts. I believed that her cookies smelt and tasted better than mine since she added ground cinnamon and banana extract.

But nonetheless, I decided to modify her recipe a little to make it healthier.

Below is the ingredients I have used:

Ingredients

1. 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2. 1/4 tsp baking soda
3. 1/4 tsp salt
4. 1/2 cup brown sugar
5. 1/2 cup butter
6. 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
7. 2 eggs
8. 4 ripe big bananas, mashed

* You can use either 3 big bananas with banana extract, or use more bananas for the natural banana smell and taste.

* I reduced the amount of brown sugar to 1/2 cup as I did not like my cookies to be too sweet. If you have a sweet tooth, you might like to stick with 7/8 cup of brown sugar.

* Do add 3/4 tsp of ground cinnamon for better taste and smell.

* If you have a nutty tooth, do feel free to add your favourite nuts (chopped) into the mix.

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

2. Place some baking paper on the baking tray.

3. Sift flour, baking soda and salt into a bowl.

4. In a separate small bowl, combine 2 tbsp of brown sugar with cinnamon, set aside.

5. Beat the rest of the brown sugar with the butter, vanilla extract until the mixture is light in texture.

6. Mash the bananas and add in to the butter mixture. Slowly mix the flour into the mixture.

7. Fold in nuts.

8. Drop the dough by teaspoon onto the baking tray. (I used a modified piping bag to give the cookie a nicer appearance)

9. Sprinkle the cookies with the mixture of brown sugar and cinnamon prepared earlier.

10. Bake about 10 minutes till the cookies are lightly brown. (Mine took about 15 min.)

Viola~! And you can start munching on it once it has cooled.

A really sinful way of enjoying the cookies:

You can make dark chocolate dips for it.

1. Melt a handful of dark chocolate cooking buttons with 50ml of whipping cream over a double boiler.

2. Let it cool a little.

3. Start dipping and munching your cookies.

:)