After spending nearly every waking second with the kids over the summer as we marketed, sold, moved, and started getting settled in our new place I finally understand the sheer joy on those parent’s faces in the Staples commercials. They’re going baaaaaaccck!
🙂
Now, as the kid’s new school, like pretty well every school on the planet, is decidedly ‘nut free’…and as I completely over-bought banana’s the last time I went to the grocery store, I decided to put together some snacks the kids will be okay taking along in their lunchkits (and burn through a couple mushy banana’s in the process).
Spoiler alert. These are really really good.
Gotta be honest. I was really hunting around for a recipe that would utilize the time honoured banana/chocolate combo. Until I remembered that we burned through all of our chocolate chips before the move. That is an issue that has since been rectified with a bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips that weighs more than a small-to-medium sized child.
I like chocolate.
But as the chocolate level-up occurred AFTER I made these, I needed to hunt down a recipe that used bananas, and no nuts or chocolate chips (sad face). Enter….
Tada! What this recipe lacks in chocolate it more than makes up for in sheer volume of sugar. Brown sugar AND white sugar? Insanity! Part of me wants to tackle this and see if I could replace at least some of that processed sugar with honey or some other sort of natural sweetener. Then again, why? They taste pretty good as is. How could they not? These are a very chewy and tasty treat. I didn’t deviate from the recipe as listed, as long as I have all the ingredients in hand, I tend to follow baking instructions verbatim (for at least the first attempt). I like my cookies a bit bigger than the recommended 1 tablespoon size they itemized in the recipe. Only real change that occurred was to extend the baking time by about 5-6 minutes each batch as a result of a more substantial amount of dough that required a bit more time basking on the beach. Or baking on the pan. Whichever you prefer.
5 thumbs up from everybody in the family. I think I’ll try these with some chocolate in them next time around – just for the fun of it.
Have a great school year kidlets!
-g
Dad's Turn To Cook 