Peanut Butter Banana Oatmeal Cookies

photo by Kathleen Constance

- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Yields:
-
36 cookies
ingredients
- 3⁄4 cup creamy peanut butter
- 3⁄4 cup white sugar
- 1⁄4 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 cup mashed bananas or 4 medium bananas
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1⁄2 cup whole wheat flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 3⁄4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 3⁄4 cups oatmeal
- 1⁄2 1/2 cup chocolate chips or 1/2 cup raisins
directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a medium bowl, wisk together flours, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Stir in oatmeal and set aside.
- In a large bowl, cream together peanut butter and sugars. Add egg and banana and mix well.
- Pour dry ingredients into wet ingredients bowl and mix together thoroughly with large spoon. Stir in nuts, chocolate chips, or raisins (I used raisins in my first batch -- didn't have either nuts or chocolate chips).
- Batter will be fairly wet, so put bowl in fridge for 15 minutes to firm up.
- Prepare baking sheets with parchment paper. Drop cookie dough by teaspoons onto sheets. Bake for 12-13 minutes. Cool on racks. (Note: return bowl to fridge in between baking.) Makes 36-45 cookies, depending on how big they are.
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Reviews
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These are a moist chewy cookie. A good use of ripe bananas that isn't banana bread! Easy recipe. I did switch to all straight brown sugar, and used butterscotch chips. When I make them again I will add more nutmeg and cinnamon. My dough was firmer than I expected as Kathleen said her dough was on the soft side.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Kathleen Constance
Victoria, 0
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<br>I live in western Canada, in beautiful Victoria, BC. I'm not a chef; hardly a cook, for that matter, but I like to look for recipes and new ideas for comfort foods. My favorite cookbook is any that has ingredients I can pronounce and recognize and that I would usually have in my cupboard or fridge, as I tend to cook/bake on a whim!