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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 10 Minutes |
Ready In: 10 Minutes Servings: 36 |
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If you like banana bread, you will love these cookies - they're moist, with a great banana flavor, and the cooked brown sugar frosting caps them off perfectly. Ingredients:
cookies |
1/2 cup butter, softened |
1/4 cup solid crisco shortening |
3/4 cup brown sugar |
1 egg |
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract |
1/2 teaspoon banana flavoring (can omit and increase vanilla to 1 tsp) |
2 large ripe bananas, peeled and mashed |
1 heaping tablespoon sour cream |
1/4 teaspoon salt |
1 teaspoon baking soda |
2 cups flour |
frosting |
6 tablespoons brown sugar |
1/4 cup whole milk or half and half |
4 tablespoons butter |
powdered sugar |
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract |
Directions:
1. For cookies, cream together butter, shortening and sugar. Add egg, flavorings, bananas and sour cream; beat well. Add dry ingredients; mix well. Drop by spoonfuls onto greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes, until bottoms are just lightly browned. Cool and frost.
2. For frosting, combine brown sugar, milk and butter in saucepan; bring to a rolling boil. Remove pan from heat; beat in enough powdered sugar to make frosting spreadable; beat in vanilla. As this frosting cools, it will become difficult to spread. If this happens, reheat it in the microwave for a few seconds, or add a bit more milk to thin it. I like to frost the cookies while the frosting - and the cookies - are still just a bit warm, so that it drapes over the cookie and coats it nicely.
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