Short bread cookie ball doodle

I’m not usually picky with sweets, but I have had problems making vegan cookies that I like. Then one day I tasted a veganized sugar cookie recipe from a friend that substituted banana for egg and it was the closest to tollhouse cookie dough I have tasted since going vegan. I’m not a big supporter of tollhouse type cookie dough, but I remember eating it right out of the package my first year in college.

The Chameleon Cookie Dough

• 1 cup softened margarine (or 1 cup canola oil + 1/4 tsp salt)
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 medium banana, mashed
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 1/4 tsp baking powder
• 3 cups flour
• optional: cocoa powder, cinnamon, coconut, chocolate chips, etc…

Beat the margarine (or oil+salt) with the sugar. Add banana and vanilla extract and stir until well combined. Add flour and baking powder in intervals. The dough will seem dry but this makes it easier to shape.

Roll into balls, roll into a log and cut into disks, squish into flat cookies with a fork or whatever you would like to do with these. They keep their shape pretty well so whatever shape you make them will be the one they stay in.

Bake at 375 F for 10-20 minutes. The longer you bake them, the more they turn into short bread.