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These Soft Frosted Banana Bread Cookies are delightful, truly. They taste a lot like a heavenly bite of banana bread with the addition of a smooth brown sugar frosting spread on top. They taste even better the second day, will make good use of any spotted bananas you have lying around and just might qualify as my new favorite cookie. I have to admit to making the twice in the past week, I enjoy them so much.
Hope you love them!
1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
2. Cream 3/4 C butter flavored shortening and 3/4 C sugar together in your stand mixer or large mixing bowl. Add 1 egg, 1 tsp vanilla and beat it for an additional 2 minutes.
3. Grab a couple of bananas. You’ll want to use bananas that have brown spots all over them. Brown spotted bananas are super ripe and very sweet.
Peel the bananas and mash them. You’ll need 1 C total. Add them to the mixing bowl and beat to combine.
4. Into a small mixing bowl combine 1/4 tsp salt, 1 tsp baking soda and 2 C flour.
5. Add the dry ingredients to the mixing bowl and mix until combined. The dough will be sticky and slightly thick.
6. Spray the inside of a kitchen scoop with cooking spray.
Spray a large cookie sheet with cooking spray as well and scoop the dough out onto it.
7. Bake for 8-9 minutes or until the cookies are golden brown along the bottoms. Remove them to a cooling rack and allow them to cool completely.
8. Make the frosting while the cookies are baking. Place 1/2 C butter, 6 Tb brown sugar and 4 Tb milk into a medium-sized sauce pan. Melt them together on the stove top.
9. Pour 3 1/4 C powdered sugar, 1/4 tsp vanilla and dash of salt into the melted ingredients and whisk it well to combine. Let the frosting sit for about 10 minutes. It will continue to thicken as it cools down.
10. Frost each cookie.
Enjoy! These little cookies are even better the next day.
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Ingredients
- COOKIES:
- 3/4 C butter flavored shortening
- 3/4 C sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 C mashed bananas
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tsp soda
- 2 C flour
- FROSTING:
- 1/2 C butter
- 6 Tb brown sugar
- 4 Tb milk
- 3 1/4 C powdered sugar
Instructions
1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
2. Cream 3/4 C butter flavored shortening and 3/4 C sugar together in your stand mixer or large mixing bowl. Add 1 egg, 1 tsp vanilla and beat it for an additional 2 minutes.
3. Grab a couple of bananas. You'll want to use bananas that have brown spots all over them. Brown spotted bananas are super ripe and very sweet.
Peel the bananas and mash them. You'll need 1 C total. Add them to the mixing bowl and beat to combine.
4. Into a small mixing bowl combine 1/4 tsp salt, 1 tsp baking soda and 2 C flour.
5. Add the dry ingredients to the mixing bowl and mix until combined. The dough will be sticky and slightly thick.
6. Spray the inside of a kitchen scoop with cooking spray. Spray a large cookie sheet with cooking spray as well and scoop the dough out onto it.
7. Bake for 8-9 minutes or until the cookies are golden brown along the bottoms. Remove them to a cooling rack and allow them to cool completely.
8. Make the frosting while the cookies are baking. Place 1/2 C butter, 6 Tb brown sugar and 4 Tb milk into a medium-sized sauce pan. Melt them together on the stove top.
9. Pour 3 1/4 C powdered sugar, 1/4 tsp vanilla and dash of salt  into the melted ingredients and whisk it well to combine. Let the frosting sit for about 10 minutes. It will continue to thicken as it cools down.
10. Frost each cookie.
Enjoy! These little cookies are even better the next day.
Recipe from Jilly and Milly
I have shortening and I have butter, but I don’t have butter flavored shortening! What would you recommend I use?
Jen,
I would suggest sticking with the shortening on this one. Best of luck!
~Jamie
I just made them with regular shortening and they turned out great! Going to try adding raisins next time.
Can I substitute butter for the butter flavored shortening?
Hoping to make this weekend. They look amazing!
Talia,
I haven’t ever tried it with butter, I would imagine it would work out…but the cookies won’t puff up quite as much. Best of luck to you!
~Jamie
Butter works just fine.
can I use Almond flour
I just made these! I only had regular shortening and they turned out great! So yummy! That frosting is delicious! I’m trying to figure out what else to put it on!!
I made these last night for a family get-together and they went very quickly. Everyone loved them! Great recipe :-).
I made these the other day and didn’t have the butter flavored shortening so I used regular shortening and added a splash of butter extract. They turned out amazing! Thanks for sharing the recipe! I’m making it again for a family gathering and doubling the recipe!
Just made this recipe as directed. These cookies are amazing!
Diane,
So happy you enjoyed them! Thanks for letting me know.
Best,
~Jamie
I made these but used coconut oil and coconut sugar they were amazing ?