peanut-butter, banana & honey cookies

These were made at the same time as the smurberry cookies. Took them to work for a fundraiser. Both cookies were pretty well received. I wish these cookies however would have turned out a little more aesthetically pleasing. Oh, well. To begin-

COOKIES
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp cinnamon
4 tbsp unsalted butter, room temperature
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
1/4 cup white cane sugar
1/3 cup creamy peanut-butter
1 tbsp honey
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 egg
1 mashed banana (1 cup)
2 cups old-fashioned oats

GLAZE
3 tbsp creamy peanut-butter
1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
2 tbsp milk
1 tbsp honey

I began by getting a medium bowl and sifting together the flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. I set that to the side and threw together the butter with white and brown sugars. Mixed it well until it was smooth.

Next I added the peanut-butter, honey, vanilla extract and egg.

I mixed it until it was smooth.

see?, smooth

Now that it was super smooth, I added the banana and mixed until it was all combined and smooth again.

Once the bananas were mixed in well, it was time to add the flour and add the oats (not all at once).

old-fashioned oats

I preheated the oven to 350° and lined a baking sheet with parchment paper and began dropping heaping spoonfuls of cookie batter onto the baking sheet.

Put them in the oven and baked them between 12-15 minutes. While they were in the oven I worked on preparing the glaze. In a small bowl I combined the 3 tablespoons of creamy peanut-butter, 1/2 cup of confectioners' sugar, 2 tablespoons of milk and 1 tablespoon of honey.

Whisked the glaze smooth. Had I had an issue with glaze density then I would have simply added more confectioners' sugar or milk to adjust the thickness. In retrospect I wish I had added more confectioners' sugar to thicken it up a little because it did tend to drip off the cookies. I am certain it was supposed to drizzle onto each cookie and stay. As you will see in the photos below, my glaze drizzled into puddles all over the cookie sheet. Ha! There's always next time.

How the cookies doing?

Coming along nicely, I see..

So once the cookies came out of the oven and cooled down for about 20 or 30 minutes, it was time to drizzle the glaze.

completion

Wish the glaze was a bit thicker, but overall not to shabby. And I did get a hand-full of compliments on these.