Wow, Bashfully Designed is one year old today… Hard to believe that in the last year I’ve put up 170 posts (better than I thought I’d to, if we’re being honest) and shared 40 poems.  I’ve also started to face up to a few of my creativity fears (ahem failure ahem), and to at least be honest about when and why I’m crafting.

An anniversary needs cake right?  Actually, what holiday doesn’t need cake?  Anyway, in honor of this blog’s birthday and the progress I’m slowly making on my own goals I’m going to share a recipe with you that… to be honest, I like but don’t love.  These peanut butter banana cookies SOUND awesome but I should warn you, they are hippie cookies (wheat flour, honey not sugar, and no butter).  Basically, they’re like a really dense cake… not quite banana bread though.

I’m not doing a great job selling these, huh?  They’re good, but I kind of felt like the word “cookie” is not quite accurate.  They’re like small cakes or something.  Anyway, just try them…

I found the recipie online (via Cooks.com) and followed it basically word for word until the last step– you’ll see my notes below.  We keep hippie peanut butter in the house and I’m wondering if something like Jiff or Skippy would make these cookies a little better, they might be a little less dense.

And FYI, June 12 was National Peanut Butter cookie day… I’m sure the PB Cookie lobby wont mind if you celebrate a few days late though.

Also, I only got 14 from this recipe and they aren’t huge cookies.  I don’t know how they got 4 dozen.

The Billy Goat’s Gruff Banana Peanut Butter Troll Cookies

1 egg, beaten
1/2 c. honey
1/4 c. brown sugar
1 lg. (ripe) banana, mashed
1/2 c. peanut butter
1 1/2 c. whole wheat flour (white flour can be used)
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
Coconut shreds, nuts and chocolate chips to decorate

1. Stir together the egg, honey, mashed banana and peanut butter in a large bowl.

2. Mix the dry ingredients together, then add to the banana mixture. Stir well.

3. Drop by the teaspoonfuls onto a greased cookie sheet about 2 inches apart.

4. Press in 2 chocolate chips for eyes, a peanut for a nose, and a walnut for a big troll mouth. Arrange chocolate chips around for hair and coconut shreds for a troll beard. This didn’t work for me, I just sprinkled coconut on top.  Mine weren’t really big enough for all this decorating. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes. (4 dozen yeah, I didn’t get near that many.  I ended up with 14.  Go figure, I mean my cookies were big but not huge.  I used table spoons instead of tea spoons.  Even so, I got substantially less than 4 dozen AND I don’t know how you could get all the eyes and stuff on there with tea spoons cake-like cookies)