Peanut Butter Banana Cookies
These Peanut Butter Banana Cookies are the perfect mash-up of ripe banana and salty, creamy peanut butter. The result is irresistibly soft, chewy, and lightly sweet cookies.
Servings: 22 cookies
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 c white or regular whole wheat flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp cornstarch
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 medium banana, mashed (about ½ cup)
- ½ c reduced fat creamy peanut butter
- ⅓ c vegan/plant based butter
- ¾ c brown sugar, packed
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp banana extract (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cornstarch, and salt in a medium bowl and set aside. Mash the banana in a small bowl.
- In a stand mixer, cream together banana, peanut butter, butter, and brown sugar for 1 minute on medium speed. Reduce to low speed and beat in the egg, vanilla extract, and banana extract (if using). Slowly add in the flour mixture and mix until fully incorporated.
- Roll 1 heaping tablespoon of batter in your palm and place on the baking sheet. Flatten the dough ball with a fork in a crisscross pattern. Sprinkle with turbinado or granulated sugar, if desired. Repeat until all of the batter is used. This recipe yields about 22 cookies.
- Bake 8 to 10 minutes, or until lightly golden on the edges. Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet 1 to 2 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack to finish cooling. Enjoy!