Chop em down, hang em up, cover with a blanket or towel.
Next thing you know, you are up to your eyeballs in bananas.
That's OK, make banana walnut pancakes,
then freeze the rest in ziplocs for smoothies.
I digress.
Chocolate Malt Cookies. Our new favorite. Kind of like a malted milkshake, only you can put them in your lunch box.
And plenty skinny enough to slide into the freezer on top of the ziplocs full of bananas.
Martha gets all the credit for these. Of course she goes the extra mile and makes sandwich cookies out of them. Honestly? I never got that far. Got the cookie part made and just started munching from there.
Popeye is the type to go an extra mile or two as well...
Popeye's Chocolate Malt Ice Cream Sandwich
Chocolate Malt Cookies
2 cups plus 2 T. flour
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1/4 cup plain malted milk powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup butter
1 3/4 cups sugar
1 large egg
2 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 cup creme fraiche (melt some vanilla ice cream, that works)
3 T. hot water
Sift together flour, cocoa, malted milk powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
Mix butter and sugar on medium/high until pale and fluffy.
Mix in egg, vanilla, creme fraiche, and 3 T. hot water.
Reduce mixer speed to low; mix in flour mixture.
Space tablespoon size balls of dough out onto baking sheet. Leave about three inches in between. Six at a time on one regular size baking sheet worked for me. (But then I may have used a tad more than a tablespoon of dough...)
Bake until flat and just firm. 10-12 minutes. Let cool at least a little bit before you try putting ice cream on them!
Freeze in ziplocs for your Christmas party.
Or for camping at Alafia.
I took half a batch along, thinking I would probably have them all to myself, with the uber-health conscious Popeye, Sailor, and Captain Bligh sharing the campsite and the foodstuffs.
Let me tell you something about those healthy mountain biker types. They are hungry. And fast. Really fast.
Note to self: Next time take the whole batch.
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