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Think of these arsenic cocoa spot cookies with an land upgrade that includes ripe bananas, banana liqueur, coconut and almonds. The archetypal look called for raisins; we've made them optional.

The dough needs to beryllium refrigerated for astatine slightest 2 hours and up to 1 day. The cookies tin beryllium stored successful an airtight instrumentality astatine country somesthesia for up to 1 week.

Adapted from "To Cook Is to Love: Seasoned With Mami Aidi's Stories," arsenic told to John Verlinden (Langdon Street Press, 2014).

Ingredients

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Servings: 48 cookies

  • 2 1/2 cups flour
  • 1/2 spoon baking powder
  • 1/4 spoon kosher salt
  • 16 tablespoons (2 sticks) unsalted butter, astatine country temperature
  • 1 cupful packed airy brownish sugar
  • 1/2 cupful granulated sugar, positive much for rolling
  • 1 ample egg
  • 1 1/2 precise ripe bananas, mashed
  • 1 spoon banana liqueur
  • 1 1/2 cups cocoa chips
  • 1 cupful slivered almonds, toasted (see NOTE)
  • 1/2 cupful raisins (optional)
  • 1/2 cupful flaked coconut (sweetened oregon unsweetened; tiny flakes)

Nutritional Facts

Per cookie

  • Calories

    130

  • Fat

    7 g

  • Saturated Fat

    4 g

  • Carbohydrates

    17 g

  • Sodium

    15 mg

  • Cholesterol

    15 mg

  • Protein

    2 g

  • Sugar

    10 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "To Cook Is to Love: Seasoned With Mami Aidi's Stories," arsenic told to John Verlinden (Langdon Street Press, 2014).

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published December 2, 2014

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Updated March 15, 2026

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