These Banana Cookies with Salted Caramel Frosting are kind of perfect. They’re soft, sweet, and melt in your mouth. The flavors compliment each other so well in this unique and tasty cookie recipe!
These soft banana cookies are topped with creamy salted caramel frosting that gets a little crunchy on the outside but stays soft and brown-sugary on the inside. Basically frosting perfection.
These cookies are perfect with coffee, as a lunchtime snack..or certainly for dessert. A cookie for all occasions.
And they’re really simple.
How to Make The Best Banana Dessert
Just mash up some bananas.
And mix them in the cookie dough! Scoop out the dough and bake them up.
They bake up pretty perfect!
And frosting makes the world go ’round…
Soft, loaded with delicious banana flavor and topped with creamy-dreamy caramel frosting.
These just melt in your mouth!
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- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 24 cookies 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Description
These Banana Cookies with Salted Caramel Frosting are kind of perfect. They’re soft, sweet, and melt in your mouth. The flavors compliment each other so well in this unique and tasty cookie recipe!
Ingredients
Cookies
- 3/4 cup butter, room temperature
- 3/4 cup light brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 medium ripe bananas, mashed
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 cups all purpose flour
Frosting
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/2 cup dark brown sugar
- 1/3 cup heavy cream
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 cups powdered sugar
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
- In the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment beat the butter and sugar together for 2 minutes. Add in the egg, vanilla and bananas and mix for an additional minute, scraping the sides of the bowl as necessary. Mix in the baking soda and salt until incorporated.
- Turn the mixer to low and slowly add in the flour, mixing until just combined.
- Using a medium (2 tablespoon) cookie scoop, drop the dough on to the baking sheet 2 inches apart. Bake the cookies for 9-10 minutes or until the centers are set.
- Transfer the cookies to a wire rack to cool completely.
Frosting
- In a medium saucepan melt the butter, sugar, cream and together over medium-low heat. Bring the mixture to a full boil and boil for 2 minutes, stirring constantly.
- Remove the pan from heat, stir in the salt and allow to cool for 5 minutes. Whisk in the powdered sugar and then cool for an additional 15 minutes, whisking every so often.
- Spread the frosting on the cookies.
Nutrition
- Serving Size:
- Calories: 206
- Sugar: 22.2 g
- Sodium: 131.3 mg
- Fat: 8.6 g
- Carbohydrates: 31.5 g
- Protein: 1.6 g
- Cholesterol: 30 mg
I wanted to make a sweet treat with my ripe bananas and these were so delicious!!! Total hit and will definitely become a dessert staple! Hint…if the frosting gets more difficult to spread, I put it in the microwave for about 10 seconds and it spread more easily!
So glad you enjoyed these!!
These are divine! I made them at Christmas time and they were a huge hit with adults and kids alike. So so good with a cup of coffee