by Kris Mulkey I love when I try a twist on a recipe and it comes out great! For these cookies I used banana in a recipe that called for pumpkin and the results are oh-so-tasty. These banana sugar cookies taste like banana bread with a sweet crispy edge. I debated calling them banana bread cookies. Don thought they should be called banana snickerdoodles. But I settled on banana sugar cookies because they are light and fluffy just like a sugar cookie. Banana Sugar Cookies Makes 3 1/2 dozen Ingredients 1 1/2 cups sugar (plus 1/2 c. more for rolling dough) 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour 1/2 t. baking powder 1/2 t. salt 1/2 t. cinnamon (plus 1/2 t. for rolling dough) 1/4 t. Penzey's apple pie spice (or pumpkin pie spice) 14 T. unsalted butter, room temperature 2 t. vanilla extract 1 egg yolk 2 ripe bananas, mashed Cinnamon Sugar: 1/2 c. sugar and 1 heaping t. cinnamon Instructions 1. In large bowl whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, 1/2 t. cinn...
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