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Chocolate Chip Banana Yogurt Cookies
Last weekend I taught a how to make your own yogurt class at the library. For years I have been making my offspring and the hubs yogurt without any special equipment. It tickles my frugal-tinged soul to craft the equivalent of twenty to thirty dollars worth of yogurt for a couple of bucks, but this is not a post about yogurt! Although I will be sharing my yogurt making how-to in an upcoming post. This particular post has to do with using up some of the yogurt that is currently amassed in my fridge!
There were a couple of over ripe bananas on my counter, a bunch of chocolate chips lurking in my baking cupboard, and of course yogurt. Yogurt everywhere! When I pondered that trifecta of ingredients while simultaneously beholding the rapidly growing, non-cherubic children of mine, cookies for my kiddies popped into my noggin. (Sometimes I am affectionate, don't tell anyone.)
Anyway, a short while later I had collected the necessary ingredients for cookie crafting, and started my yogurt cookie journey by sifting together the dry ingredients:
After mixing up the wet ingredients super excellent well, I scraped the wet ingredients into the dry ingredient bowl and gave the whole mess a vigorous churn until the batter was just blended. I then added my personal favorite ingredient to the fray:
The resulting dough looked pretty appetizing, I was almost tempted to just go sit on the couch and nosh on the stuff:
Then came the most challenging bit, at least for yours truly, dropping the dough in sort of uniform tablespoon fulls onto a greased cookie sheet.
At this point in our cookie journey I am going to note that these cookies are a bit different in texture. They are somewhere between a cookie and a muffin. A cookin? A muffkie? Hmm...
My favorite part of the whole use of the ingredients I had on hand to make cookies for the children experiment was when I had both of my kids come into the kitchen to taste test the cookies. My daughter took the proffered fluff confection, eyeballing its non traditional cookie-like form with a blast of skepticism. I watched her take the first bite, my eyebrows raised in expectation. I knew that the cookies were excellent the second she closed her eyes and smiled. She opened her eyes, looked at me, and said,
The boy had a similar reaction and is currently ingesting his third cookie, so I think it is safe to say that they are edible, perhaps even pleasurably so.
Chocolate Chip Banana Yogurt Cookies
2 1/4 cups of all purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/3 cup melted butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup plain or vanilla yogurt-I used vanilla
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup mashed bananas- I used two
1 cup chocolate chipsPreheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Grease a large cookie sheet.
Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a large mixing bowl
In a smaller bowl combine melted butter, sugar, yogurt, egg, vanilla, and mashed bananas. Mix well.
Add banana mixture to the dry ingredients and mix until just combined. Next, stir in the chocolate chips.
Place rounded tablespoons full of dough onto greased cookie sheet and bake for 11-12 minutes in the oven. Your >cookies are done when they just start getting brown on the edges.
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Dammit, now I'm hungry for cookies. Luckily mom just made some banana bread. No chocolate chips though. I'll have to give her a talking to. Then again that might lead to not getting banana bread in the future so I guess I'll keep my trap shut.
First snow of the season yesterday. 12 inches topped off with a nice layer of sleet. The whole neighborhood had a nice bitching session about it as we cleaned up this morning. It's the one thing that brings us all together.
LOL LOL! Chops, I was getting ready to pass out for the night when I read your reply, and I have to say it's sure nice to read about a group of people coming together. Misery loves company or at least removing shin high snow.🤣
You'll have to let me know how the keeping your trap shut thing goes for you. For some reason I am worried for your future banana bread offerings!
Mom has three older brothers and one younger one so she's built up a thick skin over the years. Good thing or I would have been cut off years ago.
Friend, how are you? a very special recipe of cookies accompanied by your traditional story that can not miss, estra mixture makes your special recipe and the touch you give it with all the love that you put to your cookies and just line that you write with that magical story to tell.
Ah, my friend, it is so good to hear from you! Your comments always make me smile, and feel a little bit magical, which is an appreciated thing indeed:)
Have a great weekend!!!
You always come up with a fun recipe that takes many divergent ingredients and brings them together to form a mouth-water piece of perfection!
AH! That was one of the most perfectly composed sentences in Steemit history! You are an artist OGP, and you also make me feel a little bit like a kitchen artist too, bonus time! LOL!
Thank you😊
Professionalism and Passion. Keep up the awesome work and enjoy. 👍@generikat, It's reflecting as you've made really delicious stuff and here i want to say that your work is reflecting the essence of
Wishing you an great day and stay blessed. 🙂
Hey! Thank you! I like that my work reflects an essence of good things, unlike my boots which are currently emanating the essence of bovine scat. You made my whole day with your kind words:)
Hope you have a marvelous weekend!
Welcome and thank you so much. Have a great time ahead. 🙂
Delicious cookies + good story + the charisma and love that you put on your post = a happy follower of reading, thanks friend, I hope you are well
Awe, you are too kind my friend, thank you!
I hope that you are well as well and that you are having a super fun weekend!
Wow really testy food . This food looks so delicious . Have a nice day . Thanks for sharing @generikat
Glad to hear that you think it looks delicious, thank you!:)