Hors d’oeuvres will never be the same.
Imagine you’re invited to a “desserts only” party.
A party where everything—from the drinks, to the appetizers, to the main course—is a dessert.
Dare to dream.
Impress all your friends with these gourmet-looking cookie bites that are secretly healthy and so simple to make!
Chocolate-Chip Banana Bites
- 1/3 cup plus 1/4 cup flour (I used 70g oat flour. You can use all-purpose, spelt, or gf all-purpose.)
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp baking soda (not baking powder)
- 3 tbsp to 1/3 cup chocolate chips, depending on your preference
- 2 tbsp brown sugar or coconut brown sugar or sucanat (do not omit or sub with white) (20g)
- 1tbsp plus 2tsp white sugar or evaporated cane juice (If you have no sweet tooth, like me, you can omit) (21g)
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1tbsp vegetable oil or coconut oil (or pre-melted margarine) (12g)
- 2-3 tbsp milk of choice, or more if needed (feel free to switch proportions of milk and oil) (30-45g)
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Mix your dry ingredients, then add in wet. Form baby-sized cookies OR big cookies and bake 6-8 minutes. Take out when still underdone–they’ll continue to cook while cooling, and so you don’t want them to get hard. (If you made big cookies, you can use a circle-shaped cookie cutter to achieve baby cookies.) To serve: sandwich a banana slice between two cookies. If possible, do this at the last minute so the bananas stay fresh. For a variation, replace banana with sliced strawberries!
If you’d prefer, here’s a Sugar Free Variation.
If you’re in the mood for a naughtier version…
Forget the bananas and make Cookie Sandwiches.
Changing subjects…
What would you prefer?
I’m going to be in NYC this next week, so I was wondering: would y’all be interested in seeing trip-recap posts, with restaurant reviews and point-n-shoot photos? (I’m not bringing my DSLR camera on vacation.) Or would you rather I stick to my signature dessert posts? I don’t care either way, so I wanted to ask your opinions. (Even if you do vote for NYC-recap posts, I’ll still mix in some recipe posts as well.)
Also, a huge thank you to whomever put this post on stumbleupon. I don’t really understand stumbleupon, but I was amazed by how many people viewed the post. Usually (read: never), my blog doesn’t get 5,000 unique visitors from of 2-3am!
Yumm!
I loveee all your dessert recipies but o would also really want to hear about your trip so I say both, and the beauty of blogging is that you can post whatever you feel like posting!
Ps. Your love of bean desserts inspired me yo make roasted caramel chickpeas! They are awesome and I just put the recipe up on my blog. They make me reminisce about getting honey roasted peanuts at the fair as a kid 🙂
Ooh just looked! They look awesome!
Have a wonderful NYC trip!!! The first little cookies look adorable and I really like the suggestion of putting strawberries instead of the bananas. The cookie sandwiches though look like you’d die of sugar shock after just one of them. Ugh.
-Sarah
fitango.com
Love the banana between the cookies. 🙂 I might have to make this for my Bachelorette party tonight. (It’s just me- watching the Bachelorette after my boys are asleep.) 🙂 Have a great trip!
LOL at your version of a bachelorette party! 🙂 🙂
I’d love to hear about your trip too…
These look epicly amazing. I love this idea…so. much. I’m kinda flipping out about them!
mmm, banana chocolate chip is one of my favorites. i bet these would be great frozen! And I would definitely prefer hearing about NYC. I’ve only been there a few times (twice on school field trips with very little time to explore) so I really want to hear about the cool places (i.e. restaurants) it has to offer 😡
CUTEST THINGS EVERRR!!!!
Um. Soulmates.
We had a dessert party at a pub once! They did such good puddings we didn’t bother with main courses! I had a waffle with berries and ice cream and then a banoffee pizza, sooo good. This was before I was vegan though, probably be a little harder now!
I’d love to hear about your trip to NY, its nice to hear about other people’s travels especially as I can’t afford to go anywhere myself! Besides I’m sure some of your reviews will be puddings anyway 🙂
I’ve never had banoffee pie, vegan or otherwise! I’m so curious!
You realise I am now going to have to challenge you to make one!!! And yes, you’re allowed to do it without the crust! x
Haha ok!
I would love to hear about your trip to NYC!
I’d love to see NYC recap photos & posts! I miss it there, haha. But be sure to include desserts from the trip of course 😛