Abby, Zoë and Enzo

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September 15^th 2007

Banana Flax Cookies

15th banana/flax cookies
I had some ripe bananas that needed a baking recipe and we had also just bought some milled flax so I searched for banana flax cookies and lo and behold I found some recipes. This is the one I went with.
2 large bananas
1 stick butter, softened
3/4 cup unrefined sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg, beaten
1 cup teff flour (I substituted this with wheat flour)
1 1/4 cups unbleached white flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup flax seed

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Beat the bananas until smooth. Beat in the softened butter. Mix in the sugar, egg and vanilla and set aside.

In a separate bowl, sift the teff flour, white flour, salt and baking soda. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ones and stir in the flax seeds.

Drop by teaspoonfuls onto an un-greased sheet and bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.

The recipe didn't say how many this would make, for me it made 25, so it was probably supposed to make a couple of dozen. You'll want to make sure that you take them out of the oven when the bottoms are browned and set, even though the tops won't be completely set. Let them sit for a couple of minutes on the baking sheet and then move them to a cooling rack. I love the texture and muffin like consistency of the cookies, and really liked the taste as well. Chris suggests next time lowering the amount of salt a smidgen and adding crushed pineapples, even though he does like them as they are too. On the first batch I let them bake as is, the second I tried sprinkling cinnamon sugar mixture on the tops halfway through baking. The third time I tried regular sugar halfway through baking. We'll definitely make these again.