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04 February 2009

Chocolate Banana Cookies Snow day in Asheville: I made cookies last night and they are so good I am giving you the recipe.[More:]These are adapted from an old book by Maida Heatter. She is a genius but extremely anal. I am not so anal; therefore, these cookies are way easier to make than hers.

6 oz semi sweet chocolate
2 cups + 2 tbsp flour
1/4 cup cocoa powder
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 or 3 very ripe bananas
1 1/2 sticks (6 oz) butter
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup light brown sugar
2 eggs

She also adds white chocolate chunks and walnuts and the note from my friend in the margin of this ancient recipe says to add some chocolate chips as well. I did none of these things. The cookies were great.

* Oven: 375.
* Line cookie sheets with aluminum foil. Maida says to use 2 cookie sheets on top of each other but, yeah, right. I am not bothering with that.
* Combine the dry ingredients. You should probably sift them. I did not bother with that either, given that I made these on a beer drinking it's gonna be a snow day tomorrow night.
* Melt the chocolate. Note: wash the spoon & bowl afterwards if you nuke it. I woke up this morning to a perfectly impregnable chocolate covered spoon.
* Mix the softened butter, sugar, vanilla & bananas.
* Add the melted chocolate. Mix.
* Add the eggs. Mix.
* Add the dry ingredients. Mix just until it's all together.
* Add the chips & nuts & chunks if you're going there.
* Use an ice cream scoop to put the cookies on the cookie sheets. Yes, they are very huge. Make sure they're at least 2" apart.
* REFRIGERATE THEM FOR AT LEAST 15 MINUTES. Even I did not skip this step. You must not either or they will just sort of gooily melt and then what will you do?
* Bake for like 20 minutes. They're done when their tops sort of spring back when you touch them. Careful, here, because they have a short window between underdone and burnt bottom.

They are huge and amazingly delicious and good for you, see, because they have bananas in them.
Okay, yum.
posted by mudpuppie 04 February | 14:58
Those sound great.
posted by amro 04 February | 15:05
Oh these sound really good.
posted by gaspode 04 February | 15:15
*peers in mgl's frosted window*

*Drools*
posted by mightshould 04 February | 15:47
I've been feeling a little low in vitamin banana...
posted by Specklet 04 February | 15:55
yummmy.
posted by chewatadistance 04 February | 16:13
Totally going to make these.
posted by chococat 04 February | 22:38
yumster. i'm slightly jealous of the snow day. We had cold but not snow. Hope you enjoyed it a ton.
posted by Stewriffic 05 February | 09:38
I happen to have all the ingredients, including overripe smushable bananas, so I may just try this now.
posted by Miko 05 February | 17:46
First batch is out of the oven! Very yummy. My notes:

1. I didn't even do the aluminum foil thing; couldn't figure out why you'd need it. They came out fine on ungreased cookie sheets, so that can safely be skipped.

2. Added chopped walnuts because I had 'em and like 'em.

3. Had a little less chocolate than I thought (4 oz bar instead of 6 oz). They came all right anyway. I put in a little extra cocoa powder but no extra fat, thinking the eggs might take care of it.

4. My biggest inspiration: Well, mine came out tall, fluffy, and cakelike. So I'm thinking maybe they need to take that next step into Whoopie-Pie territory. They would be pretty awesome with a banana creme filling...and then rolled in really fine walnuts around the outside...
posted by Miko 05 February | 20:54
First time dad at 111 years old || Bunny! OMG!

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