Banana bread cookies with frosting

🧂 Ingredients

• 2 sticks Butter

  softened
• 1 cup Sugar
• 1 tbsp Vanilla extract
• 1 Egg
• 3 cups Flour
• 1 tbsp Baking Powder
• 1 Banana

  ripe, mashed
• 4 tbsp Butter

  softened
• 4 oz Cream Cheese
• 4 cups Powdered Sugar
• Yellow Food Coloring Gel
• Banana Slices

  to top Cookies

Instructions

• 1 In the mixing bowl of a stand mixer, using the whisk attachment, add the butter,
  sugar, vanilla and egg, and blend until light and fluffy.
• 2 Add the mashed banana, and blend.
• 3 In a separate bowl, add the flour and baking powder, and stir well to blend.
• 4 Add the flour a little at a time and mix on low to blend until all the flour is
  added. Remove the whisk attachment, and use the paddle. Continue to blend the
  cookie dough until it's completely blended and a smooth ball starts to form.
  Scrape down the mixing bowl as needed.
• 5 Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper, and roll the cookie dough into
  small balls, about 1 inch balls, and place the balls on the parchment paper.
  Bake at 350 degrees for about 15 minutes, or just until the cookies start to
  turn a light golden brown around the edges. About half way through baking the
  cookies, check the oven, and the cookies may have started to crack a little.
  Take a flat bottom glass, dip it in sugar before lightly applying to each cookie
  - smash the cookies very gently and slightly, making them a little flatter, and
  spread out a little more.  This will give the cookies the crinkle look.
• 6 When the cookies are done, remove from the oven to a wire rack to cool
  completely.
• 7 In the mixing bowl of a stand mixer, using the whisk attachment, add the
  softened butter and cream cheese and blend to combine.
• 8 Add the powdered sugar a little at a time, blending after each addition, until
  the frosting is smooth and fluffy.
• 9 Divide the frosting evenly into two bowls. In one bowl, add a couple drops of
  the yellow food coloring gel, and stir well to blend. If the frosting thinned a
  bit add a tablespoon of powdered sugar, and stir to blend. The other bowl of
  frosting remains white, to swirl with the yellow.
• 10 Using plastic wrap tear off a piece about 10 inches wide and place the frosting
  length-wise in the middle of the plastic wrap; it will look like two long
  ribbons of frosting.
• 11 Then, roll the plastic wrap around the frosting, making sure to keep it long, or
  length-wise like a long ribbon.
• 12 Snip the end off of the plastic wrap, on one end only, and place it in a pastry
  bag with the large star tip.
• 13 Pipe the Frosting onto the cookies, using a swirl, and bring it up to a point.
  Place a Banana slice on the top of each cookie.  Allow the Frosting to set or
  firm up a bit, about 30 minutes.

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