The Dorie's Cookies group has a rewind this week…make any recipe you missed along the way. This week I chose to make Cabin Fever Banana Bars (p. 65).
Ingredients list: butter, brown sugar, flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, cardamom, banana, sour cream, sugar, egg, vanilla, walnuts, and chocolate.
Thanksgiving has come and gone. Our refrigerator and pantry, probably much like yours, have all sorts of partially used bags and containers of ingredients just hanging out looking for ways to be useful…a bit of brown sugar, the last of the bag of flour, a forgotten ripened banana thinking no one is going to call it by name, exactly the correct amount of sour cream for this recipe at the bottom of the carton, the end of the bag of walnuts, and those teeny tiny chocolate chips that someone accidentally bought because they did not read the writing on the bag (why are there so many bags of chocolate chips, who needs this much chocolate?)…and I found this recipe as I was looking through the book with the list of Cookies Already Made on the TWD DC site.
This is a bar cookie, seems more cake-like to me, like a brownie always seems more cake-like than cookie-like to me. Bar cookies are really easy as you just mix everything together, scrape it into the baking pan, and slide it in the oven, none of this moving cookie sheets back and forth and front and back and such. This one baked 25 minutes and just needed a couple minutes to melt the chocolate on top and sprinkle on the walnut pieces. After cooling it was not that easy to cut into the 16 bars, those little nut pieces make cutting straight lines difficult, in hindsight, I'm thinking those nuts should have been chopped in much smaller pieces...next time. Husband-approved as absolutely delicious, repeat worthy.
The Tuesdays with Dorie group is baking from Dorie Greenspan's book, Dorie's Cookies. The posts are the first and third Tuesdays of the month and can be linked at the main Tuesdays with Dorie website here. You can also find the information on joining in and/or see the posts from those in the group baking along at this location. I don’t publish copyrighted recipes, so if you’d like to bake along, buy the book, it’s well worth it.