Peanut Butter Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies

Be kind.

One time Tyler and I were driving along on some weekend outing and stopped at a tollbooth to pay to cross a bridge. I’m not sure how many people actually pay cash to cross the bridges in the San Francisco Bay Area anymore, rather than using FasTrac, but we are some of them. It costs $5 to cross, and I had a $10 bill. I thought, “be kind” and paid for the car of strangers behind us to cross as well. How cool would that be, if that happened to us? How cool would that be if it happened to you? Oh wow! How nice of them! You would think as you crossed that bridge for $free.99–
That was some time ago, but today I got a call from Tyler, who was driving into San Francisco for work. He happily told me that when he pulled up to the tollbooth, the man inside said “Oh, go ahead man! The guy ahead of you paid your toll!”

Ah! How cool, and how nice of that guy to do that!

Now, this story being told, I should tell you that I’m one of those brats who lives five minutes away from where I work. That five minute drive does not include a bridge, so I luckily do not have to pay a toll terribly often. But paying for  a stranger’s bridge toll is not the only way to perform an act of kindness.
SO- when I’m not at a tollbooth with a $10 bill and an unsuspecting stranger behind me, I choose butter and sugar to help me perform acts of kindness.
Peanut butter and brown sugar to be exact.

Be kind.

Peanut Butter Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies
Bring these puppies to work with you. Leave them in the break room. Don’t say who brought them.
Good deed of the day. Do it, it’s good for you.

2 1/2 c flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 sticks of unsalted butter, softened
1 1/2 c dark brown sugar
1/2 c sugar
1 banana mashed
2 eggs
1 c peanut butter
handful of sugar to roll the dough in
1 1/2 c chocolate chips

1. Preheat the oven to 350°
2. Whisk the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt together.
3. In a separate bowl, cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. (Try using a paddle attachment in a standmixer)
4. Add the eggs and mix until incorporated. Scrape the sides of the bowl.
5. Add peanut butter and banana and then mix until all is incorporated.
6. Add the dry ingredients along with chocolate chips, mix until incorporated, and scrape the bowl.
7. Take out a bit of dough (about two tsp in size) and roll them in the sugar. Set on a lined cookie sheet a few inches apart.
8. Take a fork and press a criss-cross pattern on top of each cookie.
9. Bake for 12-15 minutes, until golden brown around the edges
10. Give them to your friends and family!

Boom pow.
yum.

yum foodie foodie!