Oatmeal Banana Bread Cookie Recipe

Hello my beloved friends around the world! How the heck are you? As for me, I'm doing well, the seasons are finally changing and Baking Season is full on!! So I made these cookies once before and everyone LOVED them, but I never wrote down the recipe, so I had a baking day with my mom the other day and while I was making them, she wrote down all the ingredients and what I did. Now that I have the actual recipe, please feel free to try it and make it your own...Lots of love and until next time!

Ingredients:

1 1/4 cups all purpose flour

1/2 cup white sugar

1 cup brown sugar

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp ginger

 1 tsp cinnamon

1/2 stick butter

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 egg

3 cups oatmeal

1/4 cup milk

4 mashed riped banana

Optional Ingredients: Chopped walnuts, raisins or anything else you want to add for texture and crunch

Prep time 15 min

Bake time: 15 min

Instructions: 

1. In large bowl mix all dry ingredients first, then add, egg, milk and vanilla. Mix well, then add 3 cups of Oatmeal, use which ever brand you like, doesn't really matter.

2. Mash four bananas in a separate cup. The more ripe the banana the better! The ones I used were pretty much black.

3. Combine and stir with fork until all ingredients are mixed well together.

4. Put baking wax paper on a cookie sheet or simply grease your cookie sheet ( I line them for easier clean up), then With a rounded measuring spoon or tablespoon sized scooper, start to line the cookie sheet with cookie batter

5. Preheat oven to 375 degrees and once heated, place cookie sheets in for 15 minutes or until golden brown on the bottom. 

6. Take cookies out and let cool for a minute on wire rack. Cookies should be really soft and the consistency between a cookie and bread ( maybe I should call this my banana bread oatmeal cookie recipe instead huh)? Next place on a plate and watch them disappear before your eyes because they are so yummy!

Simple Bread Recipe for beginners

Hello all my beautiful friends around the world, as you may or may not know, my husband and I have been trying to live the simple life, and in these hard times with the Government Shutdown , the economy going down the crapper, etc, etc., we need to do everything we can to save. To continue on with this point, I decided that instead of buying bread every week, I would just bake it at home from scratch, which I think is really saving us a couple of bucks considering how expensive bread is getting. So being a beginner bread maker, I did some extensive research online and found this really easy bread recipe that I thought I would share with you all. As always feel free to make it your own as I did and hope you enjoy:

Prep Time: 3 hours

Cook Time: 45 minutes

Total Time: 3 hours, 45 minutes

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup warm water
• 1 package active dry yeast
• 1 tsp salt
• 1-1/2 tbsp sugar
• 1 tbsp butter or vegetable shortening
• 1/2 cup milk ( if your lactose intolerant like me, use Almond Milk)
• 3 cups all-purpose flour, approximately

Preparation:

1. In large bowl, add the warm water. Slowly stir in dry yeast. Continue to stir until yeast is dissolved.
2. Add salt, sugar, shortening, and milk to bowl. Stir.
3. Mix in the first 2 cups of flour.
4. If needed, begin adding more flour, one tablespoon at a time, until the dough chases the spoon around the bowl.
5. Turn dough out onto floured board and knead, adding small spoonfuls of flour as needed, until the dough is soft and smooth, not sticky to the touch.
6. Put dough in buttered bowl, turn dough over so that the top of dough is greased with butter. Cover and let rise in warm spot for 1 hour.
7. Punch down dough. Turn out onto floured board and knead.
8. Preheat oven at 375 degrees farenheit.
9. Form dough into loaf and set in buttered bread pan. Cover and let rise for about 30 minutes.
10. Score dough by cutting three slashes across the top with a sharp knife. Put in oven with foil cover to prevent over browning and bake for about 45 minutes or until golden brown.
11. Let cool on cooling rack and enjoy! I ate mine with olive oil and Balsamic vinegar...yum!