Banana Cream Cookies
Fluffy Cookies with a Sweet Banana Taste
Banana cream is one of my favorite flavors! I love banana anything especially when it comes to dessert. If you’re a banana lover as well, you have to try this recipe.
Make sure your banana is ripe. The riper it is, the sweeter and better it will taste.
If you want to make this recipe and your bananas aren’t ripe, you can put them in the oven to ripen them. All you have to do is preheat your oven to 300 degrees Fahrenheit and add the bananas to a tray. Once they turn dark brown, they will come out ripe!
If you are craving cookies but don’t feel like making a whole batch, try this! It only makes two large cookies. I love doing this for times when I don’t feel like cleaning up a huge mess from baking.
Vegan butter: I prefer to use Earth Balance when baking. Any vegan butter will work.
Sugar: I used monk fruit in this recipe. Coconut, brown, or white sugar will work.
Bananas: Obviously the point is for these to be banana cream cookies. However, if you don’t like banana any fruit will work.
I would NOT recommend substituting the applesauce or almond flour.
TIP: make sure your baking powder isn’t expired or super old. The older it gets, the less it reacts with the other ingredients to work as well as it should.
I always get tons of questions regarding what frosting I use. For this I used a store-bought frosting. Almost all store-bought frostings are vegan, just make sure to check the label.
This obviously isn’t the healthiest option. However, there are thousands of vegan frosting recipes online you can use if you want to make a homemade frosting.
I would recommend a normal vanilla frosting for these or maybe a cream cheese frosting.
For these cookies, I love eating them once they have chilled in the refrigerator for around 30 minutes. Personally, I think that’s when they taste the best. The frosting gets a little hardened and they taste extra delicious.
Ingredients:
Vegan butter
Applesauce
Sugar
Baking powder
Almond flour
Banana
Frosting
Recipe:
(Makes TWO large cookies)
1 tablespoon melted vegan butter
2 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon applesauce
½ teaspoon baking powder
11 tablespoons almond flour
3-4 tablespoons sliced banana
Directions:
1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or cooking spray.
3. In a bowl melt the butter.
4. Once the butter is melted, add in the sugar and applesauce.
5. Stir to combine.
6. Add in the baking powder and almond flour.
7. Stir again.
8. Fold in the sliced bananas.
9. Scoop half the dough onto the cookie sheet and press flat.
10.Scoop the other half and do the same.
11.Bake for 7 minutes.
12.Once the cookies have completely cooled, add the frosting.
13.Optional: add more bananas on top.
Store the cookies in an airtight container in the refrigerator. You can also store in the freezer to have them last even longer.
