Banana Walnut Chocolate Chunk Cookies
 
 
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Ingredients
  • 1 cup all purpose flour
  • ½ cup whole-wheat flour
  • 1 teaspoon coarse salt
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ¾ cup (1½ sticks) unsalted butter, softened
  • ½ cup granulated sugar
  • ½ cup packed light-brown sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1½ teaspoons pure vanilla extract
  • ½ cup mashed bananas (about 1½ medium bananas)
  • 1 cup old-fashioned rolled oats
  • 8 ounces semi-sweet chocolate, coarsely chopped into ¼ inch chunks
  • ½ cup coarsely chopped walnuts, toasted
  • Preheat your oven to 375 degrees.
Method
  1. Whisk flours, salt and baking soda in a small bowl, set aside.  Put butter and sugars into the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, mix on medium speed until pale and fluffy.  Reduce speed to low and add the egg and vanilla.  Mix until combined.  Add  in banana.  Add the flour mixture a little at a time until just combined.
  2. Turn off the mixer.  At this time add the oats, chocolate and walnuts to the bowl.  Turn the mixer on very low just to mix the final ingredients into the batter.  Literally I only let it mix for about 4 or 5 turns of the paddle.
  3. Using an ice cream scoop drop dough onto baking sheets lined with parchment paper, spacing them about 2 inches apart.  Bake cookies, rotating sheets halfway through, until golden brown and just set, approximately 20-25 minutes, depending on  your oven.  I would check in on them after about 16 minutes, just to be safe.
  4. Allow the cookies to sit and cool on the baking sheets for 3-4 minutes, then transfer them to wire cooling racks.
Recipe by FEASTS AND FOTOS at https://www.feastsandfotos.com/2010/08/02/banana-walnut-chocolate-chunk-cookies/