Banana, Butterscotch & Hazelnut Cookie Crisps with Bittersweet Chocolate-Hazelnut Filling
Makes around 12 sandwich cookies (24 crisps)
1/4 cup (2 oz / 55g) light brown sugar, packed
1 tbsp butter, melted
2 tbsp neutral oil
1 egg white
1 ripe banana, mashed (about 1/3 cup)
1/4 cup (4 tbsp / 32g) all purpose flour
pinch of baking soda
pinch of salt
1 tbsp + 2 tsp milk
1/2 tsp lemon juice
(optional: 1/4 cup toasted skinned hazelnuts*, chopped)
Preheat your oven to 250 degrees F (130 degrees C) and line a cookie tray with a non-stick baking mat or with well buttered parchment paper**.
Chuck all the ingredients into a food processor or blender and blitz until smooth. Take a teaspoon of batter and blob onto the tray.
Using the back of the spoon, moving it in a circular motion, spread the batter into a circle, around 2 1/2 inches in diameter. Repeat with more batter, spacing the circles 1/2″ apart (the batter doesn’t really spread). If using nuts, sprinkle them on top of the batter now. Bake for 17-20 minutes until completely browned. Let cool on the tray a little, beforeย transferringย to a wire rack to cool completely. Store in an airtight container.
When ready to eat, fill with chocolate-hazelnut filling (recipe follows) , nutella or melted bittersweet chocolate.
Chocolate-Hazelnut Filling
* You can also use toasted, chopped pecans or walnuts instead of hazelnuts. To toast hazelnuts, put on a cookie tray and roast in the oven for 10 minutes at 250 degrees F. Transfer hot hazelnuts to a clean, dry kitchen towel and rub together to remove the skins.ย
**To butter parchment paper, melt 3 tbsp of butter, then use a pastry brush to cover the whole piece of parchment. If it isn’t well greased, the cookies will probably stick.
***Alternatively, you can:ย
- use an immersion blender in a large bowl, orย
- make sure the banana is well mashed and mix all the ingredients well with a whisk until smooth.
I hope I was the only one. The smallest things drives me crazy. it also happens before i asleep and i think about all those things all over again, ending up getting up again on the computer or doing something else late at night!
p.s these are like crispy pancakes ๐
i love the thinness of these – delicate but full of flavour!
xo
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really interesting recipe ๐ sounds great for me- I love bananas, chocolate and hazelnuts ;D
I can so relate! When I’m lying in bed and I think of something really dumb I did, I literally GROAN and cringe, like “oh my god I can’t believe I did that!”
These look and sound amazing!
I really love it how you always make your own recipe up! And these cookies sound great too, will try to whip up a batch sometime!
These look so elegant and delicious – what a great dessert! Love the flavors.
The only thing worse than a brain that reminds you of all the dumb things you ever did are friends who remind you. You can’t punch your own noggin, but it’s sort of a legal hazard when somebody else brings it up, and then your knuckles start itching for sandwich-making time. By the way, thought you might like this–I spend *way* too much time on this site… http://www.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/
Thanks for sharing another fantastic recipe!
that is VERY true!! ahah, awesome ๐ thanks
These cookies look amazing! I love sandwich cookies but don’t bake them very often.
Beautiful!
Your blog is adorable! Congrats for the great job ๐ Absolutely stunning videos and photos. Congrats again dear!
xxxFiC.
These look and sound OUTstanding. I can’t believe how thin they are. I bet they are so buttery + crispy and just plain delicious with that filling. Well done! ๐
I made these cookies twice now. I screwed it up both times.
How thick is the batter supposed to be? Mine comes out a milkshake consistency and that doesn’t feel right.
I’ve only made them once, but I remember making the batter really thin so that the cookies would get thin and crisp, like super thin tuile batter basically.
Did you bake the batter that you made?
Taste delicious but mine did not come out crispy, more chewy. Any idea where I might have gone wrong? I even tried baking them an extra 15 min and they were still soft not crispy.