Bake up a batch of our warm and gooey Banana Bread Cookies made with love and Lifeway Salted Kefir Butter.
Bananas, cinnamon, vanilla, and dark chocolate chips combine with our rich European-style kefir butter to bring you an extraordinary homemade cookie you won’t be able to resist! Every bite delivers a soft texture, rich flavor, and cozy sweetness that will lift your spirits from the very first bite to the last.
Lifeway Kefir Butter is the backbone of this Banana Bread Cookie recipe and the secret to what makes it stand out from the rest. Many cookie recipes utilize oil that can often make them taste flat and slightly greasy, but our kefir butter brings in a more wholesome, authentic richness and flavor with a gourmet texture since it’s made with only high-quality milk and live kefir cultures. We don’t use artificial ingredients or strange emulsifiers in any of our products, including our probiotic kefir butter. That means you get the best we can offer with every product we make, so you can enjoy making endless creations that you can feel good about — like these delicious cookies!
Find Lifeway Kefir Butter and our other probiotic foods in a store near you or shop online. Happy baking!
The Benefits of Cultured Dairy for Better Health:
Research continues to show the importance of eating healthy foods, including cultured dairy such as kefir, for better gut health, a strong immune system, and to support the microbiome. Fermented foods like kefir hold important value in this line of research due to the link between the gut-brain axis and overall health.
Specifically, kefir has been shown to help diversify the microbiome, support the digestive system, reduce inflammation, support healthier blood sugar levels, and improve satiety since the bioavailable protein it contains triggers the release of GLP-1. Lifeway Kefir also contains a variety of nutrients that are vital for healthy bones and overall health including vitamins D3, K, and B 12 along with calcium and potassium. Along with our kefir, we also offer our creamy, cultured Lifeway Farmer Cheese, a high protein cheese made with live and active cultures to support a healthy microbiome that’s easy to spread and contains no added salt or sugar.
Prep Time: 45 mins Servings: 12
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup melted Salted Kefir Butter
- 1/4 cup cane sugar
- 1/2 cup coconut sugar
- 1/3 cup ripe banana, mashed (about 1 small banana)
- 1 large egg yolk (not the white)
- 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
- 1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour (use gluten-free if necessary)
- 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 3/4 cup dark chocolate chips (plus extra for topping)
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a large cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Combine the melted Lifeway Salted Kefir Butter, cane sugar, and coconut sugar in a large bowl and mix to blend. Add the mashed banana, egg yolk, and vanilla, then mix thoroughly so everything is well combined.
- Add the all-purpose flour, baking soda, and cinnamon into the bowl, then combine until everything is mixed well. Fold in the chocolate chips last and make sure they are evenly mixed into the dough.
- Use a cookie scoop or a small spoon to scoop up dough, then shape it into balls and add to the prepared baking sheets, spacing them at least 1 inch apart. Press a few extra chocolate chips onto each dough ball if desired. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, until the edges are golden and the middles are just a bit soft.
- Let cool for 5 minutes on the baking sheets, then transfer the cookies to a wire rack to finish cooling. Serve and enjoy!
- Leftover Tips: These will keep for up to one week and will stay fresher if kept in the fridge. Warm up slightly before eating the leftover cookies, then enjoy!
