{"id":1976,"date":"2014-01-15T13:30:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T21:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2014-01-15T13:34:32","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T21:34:32","slug":"peanut-butter-and-banana-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/?p=1976","title":{"rendered":"Peanut Butter and Banana Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently cleaned out my fridge freezer; waaaay too many gooopy bananas in there! I usually make Banana Bread but well, I had enough for Banana Bread AND something else. My Cookie Jar has been empty since the Christmas Bake Off so I thought this might be a good time to fill it up again. Google to the rescue…again.
\nI found this recipe for Peanut Butter and Banana Cookies<\/a> over at AllRecipes, clicked on it, was NOT phased by all the ingredients listed by metric weights, owing to the fact that I have a lovely lil digital kitchen scale that I ALWAYS use to measure butter and shortening and anything I don’t like scraping out of a measuring cup!
\nDid I mention that I had oodles of gooey banana muck in the freezer? Enough to double this recipe and still have a bit leftover for a lunchtime smoothie; I really must remember to use up my frozen bananas more often! This particular recipe might just be the answer! The cookies are crunchy and yummy like a peanut butter cookie while also being chewy like a perfectly baked chocolate chip cookie….oh yea, I added extra Chocolate Chips and a handful of Butterscotch Chips to the recipe…Yum!<\/p>\n

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Peanut Butter and Banana with Chocolate and Butterscotch Chip Cookies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

250 g (1 cup) mashed Banana
\n260 g (1 cup) Peanut Butter
\n140 g (1\/2cup)Brown Sugar
\n200 g (1 cup)Sugar
\n1 1\/2 teaspoons Vanilla
\n330 g (1 1\/4 cup) Flour
\n1 Tablespoon Baking Powder
\n1 teaspoon Salt
\n80 g (1\/2 cup) Chocolate Chips
\n50 g (1\/3 cup) Butterscotch Chips
\n* My conversions to standard cup measures are APPROXIMATE – for best results, please do use the metric measures on a kitchen scale.<\/p>\n

Line 4 baking trays with parchment paper.
\nPreheat oven to 375F. (190C)<\/p>\n

In small mixing bowl combine flour, baking powder and salt.
\nIn standard mixing bowl, on low speed, mix together banana and peanut butter until well blended.
\nAdd brown sugar, sugar and vanilla; beat for 2 minutes.
\nStir in dry ingredients until no flour remains.
\nFold in chocolate and butterscotch chips.
\nUsing a #3 scoop, drop cookie dough onto prepared baking trays.
\nBake in 375F oven for 12 – 15 minutes, rotating trays half way through baking time.
\nAllow cookies to cool on baking tray for 5 minutes before removing to wire rack to cool completely.<\/p>\n

Yield: 3 dozen large cookies<\/p>\n

I used Weekend Bakery’s<\/a>\u00a0conversion chart to estimate the standard measurements.<\/p>\n

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I recently cleaned out my fridge freezer; waaaay too many gooopy bananas in there! I usually make Banana Bread but well, I had enough for Banana Bread AND something else. My Cookie Jar has been empty since the Christmas Bake Off so I thought this might be a good time to fill it up again. … Continue reading Peanut Butter and Banana Cookies<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-is-for-cookie-and-cookie-is-for-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1982,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions\/1982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}