Made with toasty brown butter, pecans, and loads of chocolate chips, my banana bread cookies are a enjoyable, gourmand 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 turn out to be obsessed.
These cookies are tender, tender, and, most of all, amazingly flavorful (due to banana and brown butter!). I’m requested usually 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 usually use their response as a gauge for the success of a recipe. These cookies have been a hit and have been shortly 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 quiet down, however the dough gained’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 undoubtedly cookies you’d see in a bakery show case!
- Really 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 (however on the identical time, the feel isn’t too cakey, it feels like a cookie!)
- No mixer wanted! Since we’re beginning with melted butter. And when you use a scale to measure your substances, you gained’t even must soiled measuring cups. I’m all for saving dishes! 😉
What You Want
You don’t want too many substances 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. Word 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? By no means, however I do wish to mood your expectations!
- Pecans. Coarsely chop these earlier than you add them to the brown butter. You may alternatively use walnuts, when you desire these! If you wish to depart the nuts out fully that’s positive, however word the cookies might unfold extra (through 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 when you desire. Alternatively, when you desire extra cinnamon taste, be at liberty to extend the cinnamon to a teaspoon or much more.
- Egg yolks. We’ll pass over the egg whites and use simply the yolks on this recipe, since we have already got further water within the dough from the bananas (one more reason we use brown butter!). In case you don’t wish 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 use all of 1 dimension. Milk chocolate chips and even peanut butter chips would work simply positive 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 high of the cookies is so fairly and lends a bakery-style banana bread really feel. I’m utilizing the identical sugar I lately shared in my sourdough chocolate chip muffins and linked to it under in case you wish to attempt it too (however plain previous granulated will work in a pinch!).
That is simply an outline of the substances I used and why. For the complete recipe please scroll all the way down to the underside of the put up!
Easy 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 in search of clues that it’s carried out (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 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 a substitute.
When your butter is browned (and the nuts toasted), pour it into a big heatproof bowl to chill. You possibly can velocity this up by inserting the bowl within the fridge, when you’d like, however don’t let the butter re-solidify.
Make the dough
Whisk the dry substances collectively in a brand new bowl whereas the butter cools and put aside. As soon as the butter is cooled (or at the least 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 effectively mixed, then step by step add the flour combination.
Add the chocolate
Fold within the chocolate chips till they’re effectively included and you’ve got a cohesive dough.
Scoop and bake
Scoop dough into ¼ cup/95 gram parts (yesss, these are huge ones!) and place on parchment lined baking sheets. Bake till the sides begin to flip gentle golden brown and let cool utterly 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 utterly on their baking sheets. This enables them to complete cooking exterior the oven for completely tender and chewy outcomes! Word that when 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 might be much less candy (and never fairly as enjoyable!). You may at all times add extra nuts (see word under) or simply depart the recipe as is–no modifications are required when you do that.
I haven’t tried this myself, however I don’t anticipate any points in doing so! I’ve a complete put up on how one can freeze cookie dough that can inform you precisely how to do that.
In case your bananas aren’t fairly ripe or when you use extra pecans than known as for, your dough might be stiffer and gained’t unfold fairly as a lot because it ought to. This could additionally occur when you over-measure your flour, which is straightforward to do when you aren’t measuring with cups (and why I at all times 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 one requested for however that I simply had a lot enjoyable growing and being artistic with anyway. I sincerely hope you adore it as a lot as I do (let me know both approach!).
Get pleasure from! -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 continually, till butter is totally melted. Proceed to stir continually as butter sizzles, pops, and foams. Cook dinner till butter is browned (it is going to seemingly nonetheless be foamy however you’ll seemingly have the ability to scent the toasty aroma of browned butter and the scorching and popping will sluggish/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 normally 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 effectively.
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 effectively mixed.
2 massive egg yolks, 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
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Steadily add the flour combination to the moist substances and stir till mixed.
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Add chocolate chips and stir till effectively included.
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 positive, simply bake for much less time!) and drop on baking sheet, spacing cookies at the least 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 utterly on baking sheet earlier than having fun with.
Notes
Banana word
The riper your bananas are, the higher, extra flavorful, and sweeter your cookies might be. Nevertheless the bananas may also have an effect on the consistency of the dough. If yours aren’t overripe the dough might 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 best contact. You possibly can omit it when you don’t like cinnamon, or conversely add extra when you like the flavour.
Sugar for sprinkling
I really like utilizing this coarse bakery-style sugar however when you can’t discover it a lightweight 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 ought to be thought-about an estimate solely. Precise dietary content material will differ primarily based upon manufacturers used, measuring strategies, cooking technique, portion sizes, and extra.
