I had been thinking about baking something for my friendly neighbors who have generously offered to help me with various things while I'm on vacation. This past weekend I happened to have some very overripe bananas, so I figured I'd make something banana-y (always a good bet, right?) and found this banana oatmeal cookie recipe on Allrecipes.com. The recipe is pretty simple, although I found the baking time to be somewhat difficult to get just right as the recipe says to bake for 12-15 minutes, but even at 12 minutes the I was burning the bottom of the cookies. For one of the batches I lowered the baking time to 11 minutes, but the bottom stuck to the cookie sheets so they weren't quite done, and I put them back in the oven for another minute and these turned out great. Just as soon as I thought I had discovered the trick, however, the bottom of the cookies were burning even at just 11 minutes. So I think the key is to start checking at around 10 minutes or so and go in 30 second increments until done but not burnt.
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| Banana Oatmeal Cookies |
The consistency was interesting - the cookies were soft in the middle so they were more like banana bread than banana cookies - not that I mind personally. The flavor wasn't particularly strong, and I don't think these are quite as good as the
Andes Creme de Menthe cookies that I blogged about a couple of months ago, but the fact that I gobbled down a whole dozen of them as I was baking proves that they were definitely addictive and a great way to use up those extra bananas. :)
Recipe courtesy of:
Allrecipes (get the recipe
here)
