Banana Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
Since I had a day off from work on Friday, it was a working day yesterday. I still had a lovely lie in though, after Jimmy and I had a little bit too much wine the night before.
This breakfast was needed.
A toasted egg and mushroom muffin and another toasted English muffin with marmalade on. Very tasty.
I did some work until I was hungry again a couple of hours later. I’m going through a phase of being constantly hungry for some reason.
Lunch was quick to make because I had leftovers from Friday night.
Vegetable pasta stew with a chunk of baguette. The stew was even better the next day and I remembered to add parmesan! It was a great addition.
A little while later I had a cereal snack to get my fix for the day.
Dinner was also really easy to put together after my cooking marathon on Friday. I just had to cook some rice and heat up the curry I prepared earlier!
I followed this recipe for kale and potato curry, but in the absence of kale I added savoy cabbage instead. The only other change I made was adding a tin of tomatoes when I was reheating it yesterday. I like things with lots of sauce so the tomatoes bulked it up a bit and added to the flavour, I think.
I’ll be making this again. I’m going to make sure I cook it in advance again too. The flavours were much better the day after making it.
I loved not having to think about cooking yesterday, but I must have missed it a bit, because the urge to bake cookies hit.
I checked the cupboards and found I had most ingredients to bake Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies which I baked about a month ago, before my mam got here.
The key ingredient I was missing was chocolate chips. I decided to experiment with some cocoa powder instead. It worked out well. They are really tasty. They won’t be sticking around for long. I took a cookie straight from the tray for Jimmy and I to taste test and look at the shape it left.
Aww, a heart! So appropriate for this week.
You can find the original recipe on Sweet Tooth Sweet Life and I’ve written my slightly modified recipe below. I’ve also written the measurements as I know them, since we use grams and not cups here. Enjoy!
Banana Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
(makes 24 cookies)
Ingredients
- 128g plain flour
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 30g softened butter
- 50g white sugar
- 100g brown sugar
- 2 overripe bananas, mushed
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 128g oats
Directions
- Preheat oven to 175*C.
- Line baking tray with greased parchment paper.
- In a small bowl, mix together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set this aside.
- In a large bowl, mix the butter, white and brown sugar and bananas until thoroughly mixed together.
- Add the egg and vanilla and mix them well.
- Slowly add the flour mixture and fold it in. Mix well.
- Finally, stir in the oats.
- Using 2 spoons, put small drops of the mixture onto the baking trays. Make sure you leave a 2 or 3cm between each cookie.
- Bake for about 14 minutes.
- Allow the cookies to cool before digging in!
