Oatmeal Coconut Banana Cookies

I had some extra ripe bananas to use up and wanted to combine the sweetness of a ripe banana with the wholesomeness of oatmeal and my favourite thing - coconut.
Out came these oatmeal coconut banana cookies!

Easy to make, super delicious to eat.

What You'll Need:

• Small pot or microwave (to melt your butter)
• Electric or hand mixer
• Two medium sized bowls
• Cookie trays
• 2 Tbps of melted butter
• 1/2 cup dark brown sugar
• 1/2 cup of light brown sugar
• 1 super ripe banana
• 1 medium sized egg
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 cup flour
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp your favourite cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp table salt
• 1 1/2 cup quick oatmeal (not instant, or it will go mushy)
• 1 cup unsweetened coconut

What You'll Do:

• Pre-heat your oven to 350C (or 175F)
• Melt your butter (either on your stove top or microwave. If you are using a microwave, do this slowly, 5-10 seconds or so at a time so the butter doesn't explode all over the place)
• Transfer the melted butter to your mixing bowl
• Thoroughly mix in your sugars (this will also bring the heat of the butter down, which is good as the next step is adding your egg and you don't want your egg to cook if it hits hot butter)
• Crack your egg, outside the butter and sugar mixture, and beat lightly with a fork
• Add your egg into the mixture
• Add the vanilla
• Add your banana
• Beat thoroughly
• In your other bowl, add in your flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt
• Add this scoop by scoop into your butter mixture, with a fork, combine the ingredients - do not mix together
• Once the flour mixture has been added and combined, add in your oatmeal and coconut
• Use your mixture to combine everything together until well combined
• On your un-greased baking tray, spoon small sized dough mounds, evenly spaced - about 12 per tray
• (I then channeled Martha and thought she would add something to the tops of the cookies, so I placed a single chocolate chip on top to make them cute-as-a-button)
• Bake for 10-12 minutes or until the bottom is lightly brown
• You do not want to over bake these or they will turn to saw dust
• Let cool on a wire rack (or don't let cool and live dangerously)
• Devour

You can also add walnuts, chocolate chips or raisins to this recipe...or all three! Use about 1/4 cup for a batch of whatever extra you think would be tasty.

The STEWART SCORE:
Appearance: 1.5
Taste: 2
Ease: 2