Banana Choc Chip Cookies

a plate full of fluffy banana cookies loaded with chocolate chips

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These FLUFFY banana chocolate chip cookies are the cookies of my childhood! You are going to love EVERYTHING about these banana bread cookies! It's your favorite quick bread in cookie form!

Course: 100 Best Cookies Recipes on the Planet

Keyword: banana, chocolate chip, Cookies

Servings: cookies

Author: Carrian Cheney

Equipment

Ingredients

⅓ Cup Shortening
⅓ Cup Unsalted Butter *or all butter or all shortening. See note
⅔ Cup Brown Sugar
⅓ Cup Sugar
2 Eggs large
2 Cups Flour
¾ teaspoon Baking Soda
1 ½ teaspoons Baking Powder
½ teaspoon Salt
1 Cup Banana ripe, mashed (about 2 large bananas)
1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
2 Cups Chocolate Chips

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Cream together the shortening, butter and sugars for 1 ½ minutes on medium high speed. Add the eggs and vanilla and mix to combine.
⅓ Cup Shortening, ⅓ Cup Unsalted Butter, ⅔ Cup Brown Sugar, ⅓ Cup Sugar, 2 Eggs, 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
Whisk together all the dry ingredients.
2 Cups Flour, ¾ teaspoon Baking Soda, 1 ½ teaspoons Baking Powder, ½ teaspoon Salt
Add the dry ingredients alternately with the bananas to the creamed sugar mixture. On the last addition, add both flour and banana along with the chocolate chips and gently fold together.
1 Cup Banana, 2 Cups Chocolate Chips
Scoop onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a silpat and bake for 10-12 minutes. Or place in the fridge in the bowl or already scooped on baking sheets while you clean up and then bake. This allows the cookies to not spread as much, but is totally optional.

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Notes

I have found that the cookies stay softer, and fluffier longer with the addition of shortening. My mom made these with all shortening, but I prefer all butter or half and half.

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