Why You’ll Love These Bananas Foster Cookies
Approachable and Easy! Cookies shouldn’t be hard to make and this cookie recipe is no exception. Soft banana cookies loaded with white chocolate chips and subtle rum flavor. I am not the biggest fan of the flavor of alcohol, especially in my desserts, so while this recipe includes rum, it just adds depth without being boozy. Fancy Without Being Difficult! Bananas Foster feels like a fancy and nostalgic dessert. While it actually is pretty easy to make, cookies are even easier! Delicious! You have all the flavors of the classic: bananas, white chocolate (for the ice cream), and rum sauce (the icing drizzle)!
What Is Bananas Foster?
Bananas Foster is a dessert made popular in New Orleans made by sautéing bananas in butter, cinnamon, and sugar and then adding in rum and flambéing to cook the alcohol out (while leaving flavor) and drizzling it all over vanilla ice cream.
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Ingredients For These Bananas Cookies
Butter: I use salted butter in this recipe, but you can always use unsalted if that’s what you have on-hand or prefer. Light brown sugar: Using all brown sugar in this recipe adds a little more depth to the flavor while also imparting more moisture to make them soft. Eggs. I use large sized eggs in this cookie recipe. Flavor Makers: Vanilla extract solely OR 1 teaspoon vanilla extract + 1 teaspoon rum extract to really amp up the rum flavor profile to mimic Bananas Foster. Bananas: Use 2 small bananas, or 1 large banana in this recipe. Make sure the bananas are ripe! Ripe bananas are extra sweet. Dry Ingredients: Baking soda, cornstarch, kosher salt, and all purpose flour White chocolate chips. White chocolate chips are the element of the cookie that will give you that vanilla ice cream flavor that makes up Bananas Foster. If you don’t like white chocolate you can omit these. Icing: Butter, light brown sugar, milk, powdered sugar, and rum! You can omit rum if you don’t like it, or you can use rum extract instead.
Tips and Tricks
Sometimes adding mashed bananas to cookie recipes can give the cookie a cakey texture. This recipe avoids that, but to make sure to prevent that from happening is to use 2 small bananas or 1 large. Adding too much banana can cause this. The measured amount of mashed banana isn’t that important here. Once the cookies are done baking, allow them to cool on the baking sheet for about 3 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool. This will allow the heat from the baking sheet to bake them a little longer without overdoing it. You can omit the white chocolate if you really don’t prefer it. I know a lot of people who don’t like white chocolate (crazy!)
How To Store
Store airtight at room temperature for up to 3 days for best freshness. You can freeze these cookies for up to 2 months as well. Thaw at room temperature.
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