Made with toasty brown butter, pecans, and loads of chocolate chips, my banana bread cookies are a enjoyable, gourmand cookie model of the basic bread. Recipe features a how-to video!
Banana Bread Cookies
The gourmet-cookie model of chocolate chip banana bread, these are the fancier, bakery-style sister to my banana cookies and everybody who has tried them has change into obsessed.
These cookies are smooth, tender, and, most of all, amazingly flavorful (due to banana and brown butter!). I’m requested typically what I do with my leftover baked items and my sister, (Nikki, she helps me within the kitchen) takes most of them to her soccer groups (she’s on 4 groups!) to share. I typically use their response as a gauge for the success of a recipe. These cookies had been a hit and had been rapidly devoured, and I believe/hope you’ll all love them simply as a lot!
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- No chilling! Alright, technically there’s no chilling. You do must let the brown butter calm down, however the dough gained’t want an additional stint within the fridge like is required for my brown butter chocolate chip cookies.
- Gourmand, bigger than life look. These are merely irresistible and belong proper up there beside my thick chocolate chip cookies. These are undoubtedly cookies you’d see in a bakery show case!
- Truly tastes like banana bread. Toasting the nuts and butter, utilizing actual bananas, and including only a pinch of cinnamon actually makes the flavour come by way of (however on the similar time, the feel isn’t too cakey, it feels like a cookie!)
- No mixer wanted! Since we’re beginning with melted butter. And should you use a scale to measure your elements, you gained’t even must soiled measuring cups. I’m all for saving dishes! 😉
What You Want
You don’t want too many elements for this recipe, and fortunately most will already be in your pantry.
- Bananas. The riper the higher, identical to when making banana muffins or banana espresso cake. I sometimes make these cookies when I’ve a number of lone spotty bananas sitting on the counter. Observe that overripe, mushy bananas are essentially the most flavorful and are sweeter (and have extra sugar) than their yellow-er counterparts. In case your bananas aren’t ripe sufficient, your cookies gained’t be as flavorful and will not even unfold as a lot. Would this cease me from making them if I solely had contemporary bananas? In no way, however I do need to mood your expectations!
- Pecans. Coarsely chop these earlier than you add them to the brown butter. You possibly can alternatively use walnuts, should you choose these! If you wish to depart the nuts out completely that’s tremendous, however observe the cookies could unfold extra (through which case you can chill the dough for a bit).
- Cinnamon. Cinnamon provides an excellent refined heat taste. I’m going mild on it right here, so it’s tremendous refined. You may omit should you choose. Alternatively, should you choose extra cinnamon taste, be at liberty to extend the cinnamon to a teaspoon or much more.
- Egg yolks. We’ll omit the egg whites and use simply the yolks on this recipe, since we have already got additional water within the dough from the bananas (another excuse we use brown butter!). For those who don’t need to toss your whites, use them for coconut macaroons, chocolate meringues, or a double batch of candied pecans (nice for gifting!).
- Chocolate chips. I take advantage of mini and common semisweet chocolate chips, however you should utilize all of 1 measurement. Milk chocolate chips and even peanut butter chips would work simply tremendous right here, too, however will clearly change the flavour barely. See the FAQ part under if you wish to make these banana bread cookies with out chocolate chips.
SAM’S TIP: A sprinkle of coarse granulated sugar on prime of the cookies is so fairly and lends a bakery-style banana bread really feel. I’m utilizing the identical sugar I just lately shared in my sourdough chocolate chip muffins and linked to it under in case you need to strive it too (however plain previous granulated will work in a pinch!).
That is simply an outline of the elements I used and why. For the complete recipe please scroll all the way down to the underside of the put up!
How one can Make Banana Bread Cookies
Brown the butter + toast the nuts
Cook dinner the butter and pecans in a saucepan over medium-low warmth till the butter has browned and the nuts are toasted. The butter will foam, pop, and sizzle fairly a bit throughout this course of; simply preserve stirring and searching for clues that it’s accomplished (nutty aroma and brown bits on the underside of the pan).
Now, I prefer to brown the butter and toast the nuts collectively, 2 birds, 1 stone and all that. Nonetheless, it’s barely extra of a sophisticated talent than merely browning butter, so be at liberty to toast the pecans individually after which brown the butter, then mix the 2 as an alternative.
When your butter is browned (and the nuts toasted), pour it into a big heatproof bowl to chill. You may velocity this up by putting the bowl within the fridge, should you’d like, however don’t let the butter re-solidify.
Make the dough
Whisk the dry elements collectively in a brand new bowl whereas the butter cools and put aside. As soon as the butter is cooled (or not less than principally cooled/simply barely heat), mash the banana into the cooled butter and nuts. Double-check that the butter combination doesn’t really feel too heat, then add within the sugars, egg yolks, and vanilla and stir till the whole lot is nicely mixed, then regularly add the flour combination.
Add the chocolate
Fold within the chocolate chips till they’re nicely integrated and you’ve got a cohesive dough.
Scoop and bake
Scoop dough into ¼ cup/95 gram parts (yesss, these are large ones!) and place on parchment lined baking sheets. Bake till the perimeters begin to flip mild golden brown and let cool utterly earlier than eradicating from the baking sheet.
SAM’S TIP: Like lots of my cookie recipes, we’ll barely underbake these cookies within the oven and allow them to cool utterly on their baking sheets. This enables them to complete cooking exterior the oven for completely smooth and chewy outcomes! Observe that should you break into them whereas they’re nonetheless heat, they’ll appear barely underdone on the facilities, so allow them to cool utterly.
FAQs
I suppose you don’t have so as to add them, however your cookies can be much less candy (and never fairly as enjoyable!). You possibly can all the time add extra nuts (see observe under) or simply depart the recipe as is–no modifications are required should you do that.
I haven’t tried this myself, however I don’t anticipate any points in doing so! I’ve an entire put up on how you can freeze cookie dough that can inform you precisely how to do that.
In case your bananas aren’t fairly ripe or should you use extra pecans than known as for, your dough can be stiffer and gained’t unfold fairly as a lot because it ought to. This could additionally occur should you over-measure your flour, which is simple to do should you aren’t measuring with cups (and why I all the time suggest you use a kitchen scale!).
Identical to my brown sugar pop tart cookies and blueberry muffin cookies, that is one other gourmand cookie that no person requested for however that I simply had a lot enjoyable creating and being inventive with anyway. I sincerely hope you find it irresistible as a lot as I do (let me know both manner!).
Get pleasure from! -Sam
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Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Cookies
Servings: 18 giant cookies
Energy: 412kcal
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Directions
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Preheat oven to 350F (175C) and line a number of baking sheets with parchment paper. Put aside.
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Add butter and pecans to a medium-sized skillet over medium-low warmth. Cook dinner, stirring consistently, till butter is totally melted. Proceed to stir consistently as butter sizzles, pops, and foams. Cook dinner till butter is browned (it should seemingly nonetheless be foamy however you’ll seemingly be capable of scent the toasty aroma of browned butter and the scorching and popping will gradual/cease).
1 cup (226 g) unsalted butter, 1 cup (170 g) coarsely chopped pecans
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Pour the butter and nuts into a big heatproof bowl and put aside (I often place within the fridge to hurry up the cooling course of, you don’t need the butter to be chilly). Enable butter to chill earlier than continuing.
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In a separate, medium-sized mixing bowl, whisk collectively flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon. Put aside.
3 ¾ cups (470 g) all-purpose flour, 1 teaspoon baking soda, ½ teaspoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon desk salt, ½ teaspoon floor cinnamon
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Mash your banana in a big mixing bowl. (Rigorously) add the cooled browned butter and nuts and stir till well-combined.
⅔ cup (170 g) mashed banana
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Add sugars and stir nicely.
1 cup (200 g) granulated sugar, ⅔ cup (166 g) mild brown sugar
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Add egg yolks and vanilla extract and stir till nicely mixed.
2 giant egg yolks, 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
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Regularly add the flour combination to the moist elements and stir till mixed.
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Add chocolate chips and stir till nicely integrated.
2 cups (340 g) chocolate chips
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Scoop dough by giant, ¼-cup (95g) scoops (if you wish to make the cookies smaller that’s tremendous, simply bake for much less time!) and drop on baking sheet, spacing cookies not less than 2” aside.
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Sprinkle cookies with coarse sugar then switch to heart rack of 350F (175C) oven and bake for 13-Quarter-hour, till edges are mild golden brown.
Coarse granulated sugar
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Enable cookies to chill utterly on baking sheet earlier than having fun with.
Notes
Banana observe
The riper your bananas are, the higher, extra flavorful, and sweeter your cookies can be. Nonetheless the bananas can even have an effect on the consistency of the dough. If yours aren’t overripe the dough can be extra dry and the cookies much less susceptible to spreading.
Cinnamon
This can be a very small and refined little bit of cinnamon that I believe provides simply the correct contact. You may omit it should you don’t like cinnamon, or conversely add extra should you like the flavour.
Sugar for sprinkling
I like utilizing this coarse bakery-style sugar however should you can’t discover it a light-weight sprinkling of turbinado sugar and even simply common granulated sugar will work.
Vitamin
Serving: 1giant cookie | Energy: 412kcal | Carbohydrates: 55g | Protein: 5g | Fats: 20g | Saturated Fats: 10g | Polyunsaturated Fats: 2g | Monounsaturated Fats: 5g | Trans Fats: 0.4g | Ldl cholesterol: 52mg | Sodium: 218mg | Potassium: 97mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 33g | Vitamin A: 397IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 53mg | Iron: 2mg
Dietary data is predicated on third-party calculations and ought to be thought of an estimate solely. Precise dietary content material will range based mostly upon manufacturers used, measuring strategies, cooking methodology, portion sizes, and extra.
