Banana Oats Cookies

 

You already know that my Son, Zion doesn't like to eat fruits & I try my best to add fruits in dishes that I cook for Zion. How much ever my son eats he never puts on weight & he is just vertically growing faster. He is very tall for his age & people ask me if he is 3 whereas he is just 2.1:) Banana's are high in calories & are an ideal fruit for weight gain. I am trying and making a lot of banana snacks for him. He loves Banana cakes & I have been making these more often. This time I made Eggless Banana oats cookies & it turned out super yummy. Zion loved it & everyday the snack box came back home empty. This is a very happy moment for me & I know many Mom's out there can understand me better.

I have made cookies dough & refrigerated them. I will be baking as & when needed. The first batch I made were around 9 cookies & all got over in 2 days. Since I am on my own diet, I had only 1 although was very tempted to eat more. When my hubby got back from work, I offered him a cookie after dinner. He took a bite & just closed his eyes went on hmmmmm.... this taste reminds me of something that I had in my childhood days in Nigeria. I was so happy that he loved the cookie & also was able to bring back some good old memories. Now I don't know who had the maximum share? the lill one or big one :) Next time I am going to add eggs in my cookie dough, simply because it will make the cookies even more rich & its good for my little one. Since I have a lot of vegetarian fans & they requests for egg less ones, I thought will make these egg less. This is a must try & can be done under half hour.

Making time: 30 mins
Makes around 20 - 22 cookies.

Ingredients:

• 2.5 cup all purpose flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 Tspn baking soda
• 150 gms Butter
• 1 large Banana mashed with a fork
• 1/4 Tspn salt
• 1 Tbspn Vanilla essence
• 1/4 cup rolled oats
• 2 -4 Tbspn milk if required

Directions:

1. Cream the butter & sugar in a mixing bowl with a hand whisk or spatula.
2. Add the mashed Bananas, Vanilla essence into the mixture & saute well until the sugar is well incorporated.
3. Add in all the dry ingredients into the wet & mix well to form a soft dough.
4. Freeze this dough for 10 - 20 mins.
5. Use a ice cream scoop or 1 Tbspn cookies dough, place them on Parchment paper & bake them in a pre -heated oven at 180 for about 18 to 10 mins.
6. The cookie after 20 mins will still be soft, remove them & let them sit outside until they are cooled. Once they are cooled they become crispier.

Note:

1. If you want you can add nuts or chocolate chips into the cookie dough.
2. You can also skip oats if you dont like them in there.
3. The sweetsness was just perfect for us, but if you like it very sweet then add in more sugar.

Now check out my lill one during the photoshoot. He was pulling the table setting & was all over.

Zion says Hi to all my readers:)

This is my food photo studio at home:)

 

Some how was able to click his pic without him shaking

It is very difficult to take his pic as he doesnt pose nor sit in one place:)

Chocolate chips cookies

Cakes cookies are my weakness. I can eat them any time & can go on. Last week I did a lot of baking while my friend was around. She was so happy to have freshly baked cakes at home & loved them. She also said that this is one of the best cakes I have ever had for every cake I made. The praises motivated me to bake more. I made rich chocolate cake, Banana chocolate chips muffins, No bake chocolate caramel cheese cake. After eating all that last week & also Mcd burgers most of the time while shopping outside, I had decided that from now on I will stop baking for sometime, coz all that eating has really shown up on my waist line:( Now getting that rid off is a big task. I can put on weight by just eating heavy food for 2 days, but losing takes months together. For the last few days Zion has been taking Digestives, marie & oreo biscuits for snack to school. I thought will bake some cookies for him & I will not have them. Unfortunately I have eaten almost 4 so far:) They were so yummy & irresistible. Since this was made specifically for zion, I added extra butter which I don't when I make for all of us. These cookies were really rich, buttery. crunchy & melt in your mouth. If you dont like chocolate chips just skip adding them & you will have some nice butter cookies.

Making time: 1 hour
Makes around 25 cookies

Ingredients:

• 3 cups all purpose flour
• 1.5 cups sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/2 tspn baking soda
• 200 gms butter
• 1/4 tspn salt
• 1 tbsp vanilla essence
• 1 cups chocolate chips

Directions:

1. Powder the sugar a little in the mixie or blender.
2. Cream the butter & sugar until creamy with a hand whisk or spoon
3. add in one egg & mix until its well combined
4. Now mix in the flour, baking soda, vanilla essence & mix well until everything is well combined.
5. Finally add in the chocolate chips into the batter & give it a good mix.
6. Cover this soft dough with a cling wrap & freeze it for 20- 30 minutes.
7. With a 1 Tbspn measure spoon scoop out heapful of 1 Tbsp cookie dough & line it on the baking paper.
8. Now bake this in a preheated oven at 180 degree for 25 mins. Remove them out after 25 mins & allow them to rest until its cooled. The cookie at this stage will still be cakey or soft. Once they cool down they become crispy.

 

Butter cookies

This is my 6th post under BM#27. Cookies are a fav among both kids & adults. These days no Birthday parties are complete without cookies. In my childhood days I grew up eating Marie Biscuits, Pushti, Parle-g, Nice, Crack jack & coconut. Later during high school days came in all other good day, chocolate chips & many other varieties of biscuits. These days there are so many varieties & options of cookies, biscuits. After baking home made cookies, I rarely buy cookies from supermarkets. This Butter chocolate cookies are the easiest to make.

This one is a very easy version. However most cookies have similar recipes but the making process will be different which in turn will change the texture of the cookies. Since my lill Babalulu has started going to school, I made some of these last week as snacks for him. Unfortunately he hasn't been eating any snacks in the school. I have been eating them & also putting on extra inches. These are very tasty cookies & can be done in less than 30 mins. A great cookies to have during Birthday parties.

 

 

Ingredients:

• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 120 gms Salted butter
• 1 tspn Baking soda
• 3 Tbsp coco powder
• 1 tspn salt
• 1.5 cups powdered sugar
• 3- 5 tbsp water
• 1 Tbsp Vanilla essence

Method:

1. Cream the butter & sugar with a spoon or hand whisk
2. Add in salt, baking soda, flour & vanilla essence into the butter mixture. Combine this well with a spoon
3. Add in some water if required. Make a dough out of this mixture & set aside.
4. To make chocolate cookies dough: Take a handful of dough & mix 3 tbsp coco powder to this. Knead this well & set aside.
5. Cover this & keep it in the freezer for 10 mins. At the same time preheat the oven.
6. After 10 mins, roll the dough to any shape you want. Line the baking tray with parchment paper & bake them in the preheated oven at 180 degree for 15 to 20 mins.
7. Once they are done remove the baking try from oven & immediately transfer the parchment paper from the try to a flat surface. (This will stop the cookies from getting cooked further)

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