Peanut Butter Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies.
And that’s listening to me talk about how incredible they taste.
Or… I guess it COULD be worse – I could remind you for the 3700th time that the only way the peanut butter + chocolate combo (aka life itself) gets better is by adding banana, but whatever. I wouldn’t want to bore you.
But obviously, these cookies do contain three of my favorite things in the universe. I baked them in the morning, which meant that I ate cookies for a very balanced lunch and dinner. Oh, and three snacks.
… or four.
I tried my traditional sneak: leaving them on the counter for when my husband got home from work, in the hopes that he – the man who doesn’t love banana baked goods because he only eats bright GREEN bananas (dubyu tee eff?) – would pick one up and take a big bite. But my wife sense failed me and even though I lied when he asked “what’s in those cookies?” (“um, nothing. just chocolate chips. YOUR FAVORITE.”), I eventually caved because he just wasn’t taking the bait. Which meant he never took a bite. Which meant we had cookies for days. Which meant by late Saturday night I threw the last two in the trash (ziplock bag intact) then found myself fishing one out Sunday afternoon.
Hallllllp me.
There is one big major giant deal to note: these cookies are not cakey. Many moons ago I made some traditional banana chocolate chip cookies, and more often than not, cookies with banana come out fairly cake-like. No sir, not these. They are soft, but still have some chew. They stay soft for eons, or at least for the 16 hours they remain in your house before complete and total domination.
Peanut Butter Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies
[adapted from giant rainbow cookies]
makes about 18-20 cookies
2 cups + 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
8 tablespoons of unsalted butter, melted and cooled
6 tablespoons of creamy peanut butter, melted and cooled
1 cup loosely packed brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 egg yolk, at room temperature
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 1/2 ripe medium bananas, mashed
Next time I’m adding bacon because then these cookies will house all of my favorite things and be like, a complete meal.
219 Comments on “Peanut Butter Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies.”
I substituted almond flour and hemp powder! Amazing! 2.5 cups almond flour and .5 cup Hemp protien powder. They turn out like drop cookies but turned out crispy and chewy. So delicious.
I made these today and doubled the recipe! OMG are they delicious!!! I used a cookie scoop to ball them and when they were on the cookie sheet I did flatten them a bit with a spatula. I also sprinkled them with sugar! Soooooo good! I shared the recipe on Facebook because EVERYONE needs this recipe! Yaaaaaay something new to make with my ripe bananas! Thank you for sharing Jessica, this is a keeper! =)
glad you liked them!!! thanks!
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