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Oatmeal Banana Cookies

July 11, 2015 by Dan Leave a Comment

Oatmeal Banana Cookies by D Fenwick, http://dfenwickphotography.com

Oatmeal Banana Cookies

We’re baaack!  Unfortunately a nasty viral bug laid us both out for awhile.  We’re getting better and needed a treat to celebrate our survival. So, this is our version of oatmeal banana cookies, they’re easy on the tummy, and delicious on the tongue.

1 cup unsalted Butter
1 1/2 cups Dark Brown Sugar
1 1/2 to 2 cups mashed Banana (2 to 4 bananas depending on size)
1 Egg
1 teaspoon Vanilla
3 cups old fashioned Oatmeal
1 1/2 cups Flour
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
1 teaspoon Salt
1 1/2 teaspoons Cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon All Spice
1/2 teaspoon ground Clove
1 cup chopped Pecans
1 11oz package Butterscotch Chips

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.

In a mixing bowl combine the butter and brown sugar, cream together until light and fluffy. Add the mashed bananas, egg and vanilla and beat until well combined. Scrape down the edges of the bowl periodically.

In another bowl, combine the oatmeal, flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, all spice and clove. Stir until well combined.

Add the dry mixture to the wet ingredients a bit at a time and mix on a low speed or stir with a spoon to combine. Do not over mix.

Add the pecans and butterscotch ships and fold into the cookie dough. The dough will be very soft.

Scoop balls of dough out onto a cookie sheet. (My scoop holds about 1 tablespoon.) Bake 10-12 minutes or until golden brown. Makes between 7 and 8 dozen 2 inch cookies.

Filed Under: Photo, Recipe Tagged With: Banana, Butterscotch, Cookies, dessert, oatmeal, pecan

Christmas Oatmeal Cookies

January 1, 2015 by Dan Leave a Comment

oatmeal cookies by D Fenwick, http://dfenwickphotography.com

oatmeal cookies

If you’re reading this post you’ve survived the holidays, congratulations!  We have emerged from our food comas too to share with you one of our Christmas family traditions – baking a “goodie”.  We bake lots of goodies going into the Christmas season, and this one is a favorite that combines healthy oats with dried fruits and nuts.  Oh there’s chocolate of course, what would it be without that?!

Our recipe started as Quaker Oats “Vanishing Oatmeal Raisin Cookies” recipe at http://www.quakeroats.com/cooking-and-recipe/vanishing-oatmeal-raisin-cookies.aspx ,  we tweaked it a bit to put a little tingle in your kingle.  Enjoy!

1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) Butter, softened
1 1/2 cups packed Dark Brown Sugar
1 cup Granulated Sugar
4 Eggs
2 teaspoons Real Vanilla Extract
3 cups All-purpose Flour
2 teaspoons Baking Soda
2 teaspoons Cinnamon
1 teaspoon Salt
6 cups Quick Quaker® Oats
2 cups Dried Cranberries
1 10 oz package Dark Chocolate Chips
1 12 oz package Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
2 cups chopped Pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Use your mixer to cream together the butter and sugars. Add the eggs (1 at a time) and then the vanilla. Beat until well combined.

In a separate bowl, mix well the flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. (You can also sift this together if you like.)

Slowly, a little at a time, add the dry ingredients to your wet ingredients. (At this point, the batch was too big for our mixer, so we had to move to a large metal mixing bowl and finish mixing by hand).

Now add the oats, cranberries, chocolate chips and pecans. Mix until evenly combined. (This part took both of us, one to hold the bowl and one to mix.)

Drop by round teaspoonsful onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Use your fingers or a spoon to press them into flat disks. These will not flatten out on their own. Bake until golden, about 8 to 10 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool on the cookie sheet for a minute or two. Move to a cooling rack and let cool.

We made just over 10 dozen small cookies with this recipe – enough to hand out for unexpected guests and of course a few to leave for Santa Claus.

 

Filed Under: Photo, Recipe Tagged With: chocolate, Christmas, cookie, Cookies, cranberry, dessert, oatmeal, pecan

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