Peanut and chocolate cookies (with Banana)

Ok so I have a confession I am a Banana leaver - I buy them full of good intentions, I will eat one every morning, I will have one as a snack etc etc. But then the days go on the yellow turns brown and I reach for something else so I need to find uses for them and there is only so much banana bread/cake you can eat.  My hubby is also a banana hater - well no that isn't true hand him a sweetie version and he will bite your hand off but the natural version forget it - so I also need a way to hide the presence of the yellow fruit.

I was pottering around on the internet the other day - trying to ignore the browning fruit in the kitchen and I stumbled across this american recipe and whipped up a batch - well it beats the ironing!

The instructions say this will make around 30 biscuits - now either american walnuts are a lot smaller than the ones we have in the UK or they can't count - so it will make 30 American walnut sized biscuits or around 15 uk ones!

Ingredients
115g Mashed Over-ripe bananas - around 1 and 1/2
130g Peanut Butter - chunky or smooth it is up to you - although chunky does give you a nicer texture
70g Dark Brown Sugar
100g Caster Sugar
1 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
165g Plain Flour
1 tbs Baking Powder
40g plain chocolate chips

Mash up the bananas and mix in the peanut butter until well combined.
Stir in sugar and vanilla
Combine the flour and baking powder and mix into the peanut mix
Fold in the choc chips

Put in the fridge and chill for 1 hour

Line baking trays and roll the dough into walnut sized balls - they do spread a little so leave space between them and flatten them slightly

Bake in the oven at 190C for 10 - 12 minutes until golden brown - dont over cook as they go hard as they cool.

Allow to cool on the tray for a couple of minutes before transfering to the rack to cool completely

The banana flavour is slight and it blends enough with vanilla to be mostly hidden from banana haters