Banana Macadamia Cookies

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 100 ml brown rum
• 100 g banana chips, dried
• 125 g flour
• ¼ tsp baking powder
• 1 pinch of salt
• 125 g butter, soft
• 70 g brown sugar
• 1 ½ tsp lemon zest
• 1 egg(s), size M
• 125 g macadamia nuts, salted

Instructions

Working time approx. 20 minutes; Rest time approx. 2 hours; Cooking/baking time approx. 10 minutes; Total time approx. 2 hours 30 minutes

for approx. 25 cookies

Heat the rum in a saucepan and let the banana chips soak for at least two hours. Roughly chop the macadamia nuts. Crush the soaked bananas into larger pieces. Mix the flour with the baking powder and salt. Cream the butter, sugar, and lemon zest with a mixer until fluffy and then stir in the egg. Fold the flour, banana pieces, and 100g of the macadamia nuts into the mixture. Using a teaspoon, place small heaps of the batter onto the baking sheet and place a single nut in the center. Bake the cookies at 180°C (top/bottom heat) for 10 minutes. Depending on the size, the mixture will yield approximately 25 cookies.