Banana Bread Cookies

The favorite classic quick bread is now a delicious dessert recipe! Moist, cakey Banana Bread Cookies are topped with a cream cheese frosting and diced nuts.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 10

Cooling Time 15

Total Time 40

Servings 2 cookie servings (total yield: 3 dozen cookies)

Calories 323kcal

Author Toni Dash

Ingredients

Cookies

1 cup Light Brown Sugar
1 cup (2 sticks) Unsalted butter Softened
1 tablespoon Ground Cinnamon
2 large Eggs
2 medium Bananas – Ripe with Brown Spots equivalent of 1 cup of banana
1/4 cup Milk
3 cups All Purpose Flour regular or gluten-free measure-for-measure flour blend
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
1/2 teaspoon Salt
Frosting

Frosting

4 ounces Cream Cheese softened
2 cups Powdered Sugar
1/8 teaspoon Salt
1 1/2 tablespoon Milk
2 teaspoons Light Corn Syrup optional
1/2 cup finely chopped Walnuts

Instructions

Cookies

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line a rimmed cookie sheet with parchment paper (unless it's a non-stick cookie sheet).
In a large bowl, mix together the brown sugar, butter, cinnamon and eggs.
Mash in the bananas and milk. The mixture will be lumpy.
Mix in the flour, baking powder and salt.
Drop dough by rounded tablespoons about 2 inches apart onto the cookie sheet. TIP: use a medium sized cookie scoop that holds 1 1/2 tablespoons of dough will make this go quickly with cookies the same size.
Bake for 9-11 minutes, just until the tops are lightly golden. Cool for 5 minutes on the baking sheet before moving the cookies to a cooling rack to fully cool before frosting.

Frosting

Using a mixer, beat the cream cheese until light and fluffy.
Add 1 cup powdered sugar and the salt. Beat until combined and creamy.
Add the remaining powdered sugar and beat together until frosting has formed.
Add the milk and beat until the frosting is spreadable consistency.
OPTIONAL: to allow the frosted cookies to be stackable (without the frosting coming off), beat in the optional light corn syrup now. It will seal the frosting.
Frost the cookies adding some of the nuts on top of each. RECOMMENDED: do this cookie by cookie instead of frosting all then adding all the nuts.

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