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Recipe: Banoffee Cookies

banoffee cookies

Banoffee is a British thing. A banoffee pie is an English dessert pie made from bananas, cream and toffee. I have never had banoffee pie but I created a recipe for banoffee spice cookies. These cookies are great for breakfast with a cup of coffee.

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 2 bananas ripe
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 2 cups flour
  • pinch salt
  • 1/2 cup toffee chips
  • 1/2 tsp cardamom
  • 1 tsp apple pie spice

Instructions

  • Cream together butter and sugar into mixing bowl until fluffy. Add in the egg.
  • Using two ripe bananas, I mashed them up with baking soda.
  • In a separate bowl, mix the flour with the apple pie spice, cardamon and a salt.
  • Then add the dry ingredients slowly until well mixed.
  • Stir in the toffee chips.
  • Drop in dollops onto a parchment paper or foil-lined baking sheet.
  • Bake for 11-13 minutes or until the edges are golden brown.
  • Cool completely on a wire rack.

This recipe was originally posted by me on Cookpad in 2014. I am in the processed of bringing my content to my site.

Caramel Ice Cream, Sweet Music, and A Play with Balls

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caramel ice cream at NYC ICY, originally uploaded by nichellest.

After going to see Erin and Her Cello play at Ars Nova, I stopped by NYC Icy on 10th Avenue to enjoy a scoop of caramel ice cream on a sugar cone. It was delicious! I am so glad they re-opened.

BTW, Erin and Cello are playing at Joe’s Pub on Saturday, August 16. She has news songs and a wonderful cover of a Cranberries tune.

If you like to indulge in culture, check out the last performances of Prince Trevor Among The Elephants which is part of the Midtown Theatre Festival. It is a hilarious, epic fairy tale for adults with a little full front nudity!  Chicks and Giggles alum Kelli Nichols is in the play.

Sweet and Savory at Eton

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hawaiian shaved ice at Eton, originally uploaded by nichellest.

First I will announce this: song titles may not necessarily be the titles of my blog posts. I have do more with SEO (search engine optimization).

Anyway, I stumbled upon a wonderful surprise yesterday evening. As I walking along Sackett Street in Cobble Hill, I saw Eton, this little place that sells Hawaiian shaved ice and savory dumplings. I loved it!

I ordered the pork/beef cabbage dumplings, and they were delicious. Next time, I am going for the chicken mushroom.
porkbeefcabbage dumplings

There are eighteen flavors to choose for the shaved ice including mango, coconut, and passion fruit. Since it was my first time, I chose strawberry/lemon shaved ice. Then you pick a “topping”. Vanilla ice cream was recommended by the Eton, so I went with it even though I was duboius of the taste. Actually the “topping” is actually a “bottoming” since it is put in the cute flowerpot containers first before the shaved ice. The end result is like a creamsicle.

vanilla makes it like a creamsicle