Banana-Walnut Chocolate-Chip Cookies

Ripe bananas lying around the house seem to scream to me, "Bake us!!  Use us for something complex and crazy!"  Please, allow me to illustrate the directions with amateur photography. :)


Banana-Walnut Chocolate Chip Cookies
Adapted from Martha Stewart's Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup whole wheat flour (I had to sub in bread flour because I didn't have whole-wheat.)
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup mashed ripe banana (about 1 large or 2 small)
• 1 cup old-fashioned rolled oats
• 8 ounces semisweet chocolate (I used 8 oz of chocolate chip miniatures.)
• 1/2 cup coarsely chopped, toasted walnuts

Directions
1.  Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.  Sift and combine flours, salt, and baking soda in a bowl.

2.  Put butter and sugars into another bowl.  Using an electric mixer, combine until pale and fluffy.  Add egg and vanilla; mix.  Add flour mixture until just combined.  Stir in banana; then oats; then chocolate chips; then walnuts.

 

3.  Using a tablespoon, drop dough onto baking sheets lined with parchment paper, spacing about 2 inches apart.  Bake cookies, rotating sheets halfway through, until golden brown on edges, 12 to 13 minutes.  Let cool on sheets; then on wire racks. 

- Line the soldiers up. -

- Devour. -