Do you know what Beethoven's favorite fruit is?
BA-NA-NA-NA!! (to the tune of his 5th symphony)
I am so close to finishing off these ripe bananas...they are so close to being squished by delicious oranges in the fruit bowl...
Grrrr...you spotty bananas!!
Today we're shining the spotlight on ripe bananas for a second time, and making Banana Cookies :D
Original recipe here.
Now for the Sweet Pea version!!
You will need:
- 1 1/2 sticks of butter at room temperature
- 150 grammes of brown sugar
- 2 ripe bananas
- 250 grammes of flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
Start mashing the butter, and once mashed, mash in your sugar. The sugar tends to have a hard time getting mashed in all the way, so once it's mostly mashed in, stir it in.
After, add in the bananas the same way that the brown sugar was added...I'm not including a picture because it doesn't look to great at this stage. But it sure smells good :)
Once you are done adding bananas, pour the flour into the bowl and stir until incorporated. Then, as usual, the baking powder is added last. Why is it added last? That's because I tend to alternate between baking and watching tv, so if I added the baking powder in the beginning it would start to get fluffy before it needed to...then again, if you do your baking in one continuous session, then feel free to add the baking powder.
You can frost if you want to, I modded the recipe from the same source (basically simplified it to make life easier ;] )
Frosting~ Sweet Pea version:
- 2 tablespoons of butter
- 3 tablespoons brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1 1/4 cups powdered sugar
Place the butter in a saucepan over low heat, and let it melt. Once melted, add the milk and brown sugar and wait for it to boil.
Once it boils, take it off the heat and add the powdered sugar, stir it in, but don't beat it.
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| If you did it right, your cookies should look like the ones on the left. |
Note: If the frosting seems too thick, don't just continue and frost the cookies like dum-dum (me, lesson learned), thin it out with a few drops of water. Don't add too much at one time, otherwise there goes the frosting. Add a little at a time.
The cookies are cake-like and oh so fluffy.
Go bananas!!
Sweet Pea
