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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

measuring cup

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

Updated March 15, 2026