Made with toasty brown butter, pecans, and loads of chocolate chips, my banana bread cookies are a enjoyable, connoisseur cookie model of the traditional 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 grow to be obsessed.
These cookies are comfortable, 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 have been a hit and have been rapidly devoured, and I feel/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 received’t want an additional stint within the fridge like is required for my brown butter chocolate chip cookies.
- Connoisseur, bigger than life look. These are merely irresistible and belong proper up there beside my thick chocolate chip cookies. These are positively 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 via (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 in the event you use a scale to measure your elements, you received’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 fortuitously most will already be in your pantry.
- Bananas. The riper the higher, similar to when making banana muffins or banana espresso cake. I sometimes make these cookies when I’ve just a few lone spotty bananas sitting on the counter. Be aware 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 received’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? By no means, however I do need to mood your expectations!
- Pecans. Coarsely chop these earlier than you add them to the brown butter. You may alternatively use walnuts, in the event you want these! If you wish to go away the nuts out fully that’s wonderful, however observe the cookies might unfold extra (during which case you can chill the dough for a bit).
- Cinnamon. Cinnamon provides an excellent delicate heat taste. I’m going gentle on it right here, so it’s tremendous delicate. You possibly can omit in the event you want. Alternatively, in the event you want extra cinnamon taste, be happy to extend the cinnamon to a teaspoon or much more.
- Egg yolks. We’ll miss 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!). In the event you 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 exploit mini and common semisweet chocolate chips, however you need to use all of 1 measurement. Milk chocolate chips and even peanut butter chips would work simply wonderful 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 not too long ago shared in my sourdough chocolate chip muffins and linked to it under in case you need to attempt it too (however plain previous granulated will work in a pinch!).
That is simply an summary of the elements I used and why. For the complete recipe please scroll right down to the underside of the put up!
Methods to 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 wish to brown the butter and toast the nuts collectively, 2 birds, 1 stone and all that. Nevertheless, it’s barely extra of a complicated ability than merely browning butter, so be happy 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 possibly can pace this up by inserting the bowl within the fridge, in the event 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 largely 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 all the things is properly mixed, then regularly add the flour combination.
Add the chocolate
Fold within the chocolate chips till they’re properly integrated and you’ve got a cohesive dough.
Scoop and bake
Scoop dough into ¼ cup/95 gram parts (yesss, these are massive ones!) and place on parchment lined baking sheets. Bake till the sides begin to flip gentle golden brown and let cool fully earlier than eradicating from the baking sheet.
SAM’S TIP: Like lots of my cookie recipes, we are going to barely underbake these cookies within the oven and allow them to cool fully on their baking sheets. This enables them to complete cooking outdoors the oven for completely comfortable and chewy outcomes! Be aware that in the event you break into them whereas they’re nonetheless heat, they’ll appear barely underdone on the facilities, so allow them to cool fully.
FAQs
I suppose you don’t have so as to add them, however your cookies shall be much less candy (and never fairly as enjoyable!). You may all the time add extra nuts (see observe under) or simply go away the recipe as is–no adjustments are required in the event 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 freeze cookie dough that may let you know precisely how to do that.
In case your bananas aren’t fairly ripe or in the event you use extra pecans than referred to as for, your dough shall be stiffer and received’t unfold fairly as a lot because it ought to. This may additionally occur in the event you over-measure your flour, which is straightforward to do in the event 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 connoisseur cookie that no person requested for however that I simply had a lot enjoyable growing and being inventive with anyway. I sincerely hope you find it irresistible as a lot as I do (let me know both manner!).
Take pleasure in! -Sam
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Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Cookies
Servings: 18 massive 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 would seemingly nonetheless be foamy however you’ll seemingly be capable to 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). Permit 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. (Fastidiously) 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 properly.
1 cup (200 g) granulated sugar, ⅔ cup (166 g) gentle brown sugar
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Add egg yolks and vanilla extract and stir till properly mixed.
2 massive egg yolks, 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
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Steadily add the flour combination to the moist elements and stir till mixed.
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Add chocolate chips and stir till properly integrated.
2 cups (340 g) chocolate chips
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Scoop dough by massive, ¼-cup (95g) scoops (if you wish to make the cookies smaller that’s wonderful, 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 gentle golden brown.
Coarse granulated sugar
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Permit cookies to chill fully on baking sheet earlier than having fun with.
Notes
Banana observe
The riper your bananas are, the higher, extra flavorful, and sweeter your cookies shall be. Nevertheless the bananas may also have an effect on the consistency of the dough. If yours aren’t overripe the dough shall be extra dry and the cookies much less liable to spreading.
Cinnamon
This can be a very small and delicate little bit of cinnamon that I feel provides simply the suitable contact. You possibly can omit it in the event you don’t like cinnamon, or conversely add extra in the event you like the flavour.
Sugar for sprinkling
I like utilizing this coarse bakery-style sugar however in the event you can’t discover it a light-weight sprinkling of turbinado sugar and even simply common granulated sugar will work.
Diet
Serving: 1massive 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 info is predicated on third-party calculations and must be thought-about an estimate solely. Precise dietary content material will fluctuate primarily based upon manufacturers used, measuring strategies, cooking methodology, portion sizes, and extra.