Banana S’Mores Cookies

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Hello everyone! Happy Halloween :)! I hope everyone had an awesome day celebrating Halloween. For this post I will show you another way on how you can use over ripe bananas instead of using it for the typical banana bread recipe. I found this recipe while I was browsing through the food and drink section on Pinterest.

Slightly adapted from: http://www.ihearteating.com/2012/08/19/banana-smores-cookies/

What you will need:

• For the Cookie
  • 1 ½ cups of all-purpose flour
  • 1 ½ tablespoon of baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon of salt
  • ½ cup of unsalted softened butter
  • ½ cup of granulated white sugar
  • ½ cup of milk
  • 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
  • 2 eggs
  • ¾ cups of crushed graham crackers
  • 2 overripe mashed bananas

• For the Filling

• 2 Hershey’s Milk Chocolate bars (12 squares of chocolate each) or 48 chocolate disks

• 24 marshmallow stackers

 

Instructions

1. Preheat your oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. In a large bowl combine the dry ingredients- all-purpose flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
3. In another bowl combine the softened unsalted butter and sugar. Mix until well combined. Then add in the eggs one at a time. Once you have incorporated the eggs into the mixture add in the milk and vanilla extract.
4. Using a potato masher or a fork mash the over ripe bananas until you no longer see huge chunks.
5. Add the mash bananas into the wet ingredients mixture.
6. Slowly add the dry ingredients in batches into the banana mixture. Then set aside. (Tip: Make sure to occasionally scrape down the sides of the bowl to incorporate the ingredients well.)
7. Place graham crackers in a Ziploc sandwich bag. Using a dough roller or a spoon mash the graham crackers into fine crumbs.
8. Using a silicone spatula fold in the graham cracker crumbs into the banana cookie batter.
9. Drop a tablespoon of banana cookie batter onto your baking pan.
10. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, or until lightly golden brown.
11. Gently flip the cookies bottom up. Then place one square of chocolate bar on one half of the cookies. With the remaining half place one marshmallow stacker.
12. Put the cookies back in the oven for about 1 to 2 minutes.
13. Once the chocolate has slightly melted and the marshmallow has puffed out, gently press the cookies together.
14. Enjoy while the cookie is still warm. 🙂

Step One: Combine the dry ingredients- flour, baking soda, and salt together.

Step Two: Combine the unsalted butter and sugar. Mix until well combined then add in the eggs one at a time. Then add in the milk and vanilla extract.

( Sorry I forgot to include the picture of me adding in the eggs because I accidentally deleted the picture when I was uploading the others.)

  

  

Step Three: Using a potato masher or a fork mash the bananas until you no longer see huge chunks.

   

Step Four: Add the banana mixture into the butter, sugar, egg, milk, and vanilla extract mixture.

   

Step Five: Slowly add the dry ingredients into the banana mixture.

 

Step Six: Place graham crackers in a Ziploc sandwich bag. Using a dough roller or a spoon mash the graham crackers into fine crumbs.

( I didn’t mash the graham crackers into fine crumbs because I wanted to add some crunchy texture to the cookies.)

  

Step Seven: Using a silicone spatula fold in the graham cracker crumbs into the banana cookie batter.

  

Step Eight: Drop a tablespoon of banana cookie batter onto your baking pan. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, or until lightly golden brown.

(Tip: Make sure to leave some space between each cookie in order to prevent them from expanding right next to each other.)

 

Step Nine: Gently flip the cookies bottom up. Then place one square of chocolate bar on one half of the cookies. With the remaining half place one marshmallow stacker. Put the cookies back in the oven for about 1 to 2 minutes.

( I forgot to buy some Hershey’s chocolate bars so instead I used semi-sweet chocolate chips.)

 

Step Ten: Enjoy. 🙂

  

My Verdict: This cookies were really moist and cakey with a prominent banana flavor. The banana flavor went well with the chocolate and marshmallow.  When I bit into the cookie s’mores I could taste the graham cracker since I included some chunks of it which added a nice texture to the cookie.

Tagged: Banana, Chocolate chip, Cookie, Graham cracker, Marshmallow