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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 had some bananas that I didn’t know what I wanted to do with them. I looked on Pinterest and found this recipe for your banana cookies. So glad I made them. I only had regular shortening but they still turned out great. Everybody loves them. These are definitely on my list of favorites. Thanks for sharing.
Wow!! These turned out so delicious. My family loved these. Can’t wait for the next batch of bananas to go bad.
Leslie,
So happy your family enjoyed this recipe. Thanks for letting me know.
Best,
~Jamie
What kinda soda do I use? Like Coca-Cola or soda water?
Courtney,
The soda reference in this recipe refers to baking soda. Best of luck!
~Jamie
I tried with regular shortening and no frosting. Just lovely!
I made these tonight for a Christmas Cookie Exchange at work tomorrow. I tweaked the recipe a bit though. I roasted my bananas in the oven for about 20 mins (peels on) so they would get extra caramelized and gooey. Then I made browned butter for the frosting, and added approximately 2 Tbsp of real maple syrup. I just have to say, they are utterly amazing! I can’t wait to taste them tomorrow! I’m thinking next time I’ll add some walnuts and maybe even some chocolate chips (mini ones so they don’t sink to the bottom of the cookie!). YUM!
The banana roasting sounds so good! You have great ideas for thus cookie. I can’t wait to bake them.
what is the alternative if you don’t have br sugar for the frosting?
Can cookies be frozen and for how long?
Can these cookies be frozen
I made them on Saturday. Used REAL Butter instead of shortening…Delish
The cookies were great but my frosting was dry and crumbly after it cooled a bit making it hard to spread. The frosting was a dark tan, not creamy off white like your photo shows. Any suggestions?
My frosting was crumbly too ? What did I do wrong ?
I think you may have had to much powdered sugar. I just added it until it was of creamy spreading consistency. Another thing if you measure it like regular sugar, it’s a lot. I think your supposed to measure it like cocoa, spoon it into measuring cup instead of scooping it. I think iread that in one of my cookbooks. I hope this helps. The cookies are delicious!!!