Banana Peanut Butter Cookies

I love having a son who both loves to farm AND bake cookies for our family.  

Tonight Landen wanted to make a new cookie recipe, so I sent him to the cookbook shelf to search for a winner.  He chose this one from the 2005 Eureka What's Kuchen? cookbook.  Irene Kusler, Class of '45, gets credit for this one.  

We all approved and it would make a good breakfast cookie, too.  (Although I also think chocolate cake is a perfectly acceptable breakfast, so keep that in mind.)

Banana Peanut Butter Cookies

1/2 cup butter (or margarine)

1 cup creamy peanut butter

1 1/4 cup brown sugar

1 cup mashed bananas (Landen used 2 bananas.)

3 T milk

1 egg

1 1/2 tsp. vanilla

1 cup oatmeal

1 1/2 cup flour

1-2 cups chocolate chips (Landen used 1 cup white chocolate and 1 cup chocolate.)

Mix first 5 ingredients until combined.  Add egg and vanilla.  Stir in dry ingredients and chocolate chips.  Bake on a greased cookie sheet at 350 degrees for about 12 minutes.  Don't over bake.  These can also be baked in a 9x13 pan and cut into bars.