Ingredients

• 225 g - plain flour
• 125 g - butter
• 90 g - rolled oats
• 175g - brown sugar
• 75g - dates, chopped
• 1 -egg yolk
• 1 tsp -vanilla essence
• 1/2 tsp -bicarbonate of soda
• 1 - mashed banana
• 1 tsp - finely grated lemon rind
• For the topping: 4 - seedless dates chopped
• 60 g - rolled oats

How to Make Banana, date and rolled oats cookie

• Preheat the oven to 180 degree Celsius.
• Grease and line a baking tray with baking paper.
• Beat butter, rind, essence, egg yolk and sugar with an electric mixer or using a wooden spatula until it gets properly mixed.
• Stir in mashed banana, then sift the flour and soda, add oats dates and mix them together.
• The mixture will be quite sticky.
• Roll level teaspoon of the mixture into a ball.
• Roll each ball in the oats, flatten it slightly, place it on an oven tray leaving 5 cm gap between each cookie.
• Press a piece of chopped dates on top of each cookie.
• Bake it in the preheated oven for 15 minutes.
• Cool it on a tray.
• The cookies can be stored in a air tight container for up to 3 weeks.
• Recipe Courtesy: Taste of Pearl City