Kitchen Experiments with Sawyer: Chocolate Chip Banana Cookies

One of our favorite places is the new Bambino's Smoothie Cafe B2, we go there at least once a week for the Trail Mix Smoothie (I have a blog post on our version coming soon). Sawyer asked for a cookie on one of our last trips and we have now found our favorite cookie...The Chocolate Chip Banana. It's light, fluffy and almost muffin like. I decided it would be a fun experiment to have Sawyer help me make some at home. Sawyer was a great help for his first cookie baking experience, it actually held his attention the whole time. We will definitely be trying out more recipes soon.
Here's our version:

Chocolate Chip Banana Cookies

Ingredients:

1 C. butter

2 C. sugar

3 eggs

3 medium mashed ripe bananas

4 C. flour

1/2 tsp. baking soda

2 tsp. baking powder

1/2 tsp. salt

2 tsp. vanilla

1 bag chocolate chips

Steps:

1. In mixer, cream butter. Add sugar, eggs, and vanilla

2. In a separate bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt

3. Add mashed bananas and add entire mixture to mixer

4. Add chocolate chips and mix well

5. Drop dough on greased baking sheets

6. Bake at 400 degrees for 9 minutes

7. When done, cool on rack. 

mixing

I turned away for a second and he ate a spoon full of flour, yuck!

mashing the bananas

greasing the sheets

almost done!

time to cool

Yummy!

Saving some for later