Peanut Butter Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies

Recently, it was my friend Sarah's birthday and of course, I made her something sweet :] She is much healthier than I, so when I asked what she liked to eat she responded with bananas and peanut butter! Sounds like something Elvis would eat... but delicious nonetheless!

I found a recipe for these cookies and the only problem was that they sounded a bit too chewy for my taste. I feel like banana flavored things are better cakey (banana bread? banana muffins??) rather than chewy. So I fixed up the recipe a bit and they turned out amazingly soft!

And it always helps when you have a couple of overripe bananas on hand!

 Recipe: Adapted from howsweeteats

2 cups + 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 stick of butter- melted and cooled
6 tablespoons of peanut butter (I used creamy)- melted and cooled
1 cup loosely packed brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 egg yolk + 1 egg- room temperature
2 teapsoons vanilla extract
2 medium bananas, mashed
1 cup chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

Mix the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt together in a separate bowl.
Whisk together peanut butter, butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar until combined. Whisk in eggs and vanilla until smooth. Mix in mashed bananas, it will not be completely smooth. Gradually add in the flour mixture until it makes a dough. Fold in chocolate chips.

Place balls of dough onto nonstick baking sheet or parchment paper, but leave at least two inches apart as they will spread. Bake 12 minutes or until the edges are turning brown. Don't overbake because they are supposed to be soft and cakelike! Let cool completely as they are soft. Enjoy :]

Randoms!

So a couple weeks ago, Coco and our friend Kelly came over and we had a bit of a baking extravaganza. Kelly was making cupcakes to ask a friend to a prom party while Coco and I were both making our friend Laura some 21st birthday treats as well as other activities!

As you can see it was all really organized and neat..



Kelly made mini funfetti cupcakes and we iced them and decorated them with sprinkles!

 

I decided to make Laura a mini yellow cake using this recipe I had found that used ramekins instead of cake pans!

So you can guage how small this cake turned out...

it was small and Laura sized :] Happy birthday Laura!!


and she was nice enough to send me a picture of how it looked when she cut into it...

so cute!




While everything was baking, I decided to make these Reese's stuffed oreo bites that Coco and I had seen online! All you had to do was break open an Oreo and put a Reese's in the middle.. and then cover it in more chocolate so they stuck together. Can't be bad right?

They turned out super good and they were very easy to make, no baking required!

And, as usual, we decorated them with sprinkles :)




Yellow cake: paninihappy
Oreo bites: cookiesandcups

Peanut Butter Cupcakes with White Chocolate Frosting

So this baking venture started as many of them do..

Coco and I were bored.
After browsing one of my new favorite blogs for a while, Coco finally made the decision to make these peanut butter cookie cupcakes with a white chocolate buttercream frosting.


For some reason we failed a little bit at the cupcake portion...

They sunk a little in the middle, but it kind of just made a cup that could fit more frosting?
And that's not a bad thing...

So we did just that and created an entire cave of frosting in the middle of these cupcakes!

And see the bottom? Yea, that's a Reese's peanut putter cup.



Boredom can be so productive!


recipe: cookiesandcups

Chubby Hubby Bars!

 

so, that is a bowl full of pretzels and peanut butter cups.
and those are the ingredients to the next recipe. Can't go wrong with that right?

A couple weeks ago, Coco and I made these delicious bars and I knew that my brother would love them! My brother was notorious in my family for loving the Ben and Jerry's ice cream flavor of Chubby Hubby. I remember when I was little I hated it and thought it was disgusting just because he liked it and the sibling rivalry ran deep. But, when I finally gave up my grudge I realized how amazing it was. His birthday was coming up so I made these again to send to him!




You just bake together all of the ingredients and then layer on some chocolate for the top!

 Unfortunately for me, it got a little hard in the fridge and was quite a struggle to cut up. So after a good half an hour of sawing with various kitchen knives..

I had a couple of bags to send to my brother!

He finally got them a couple days later and he said that they were good, so I guess it was a successful birthday present!

recipe: cookiesandcups

HALLOWEENNNN

Halloween spirit is officially here! With my house all decorated..

 it was of course time to bake some Halloween treats to give away to friends!

click to read more!

Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Peanut butter, oats, AND chocolate chips in one cookie? Sounds good to me!

I haven't made something in a while, so I made these in my break between classes!

I think they are already half gone.. so I guess that's all I have to say!

recipe: browneyedbaker

Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies

I'm not sure what my parents think of my baking fascination, but I think my mom may have appreciated me cleaning out the pantry a bit? She had these peanut butter chips in the pantry for a while so I used them to make these chocolate cookies! I just used the recipe on the back of the package.