Banana Oatmeal Nutella Cookies

*As a runner, what happened yesterday near the finish line at the Boston Marathon was absolutely disgusting, to injure innocent people who were there to cheer on thousands of runners who what reason we don't know yet. However, there is never a good reason to ever invoke pain and hurt on anybody.
I hope yesterday's incident won't detour people from ever participating in future marathons, why because whoever was behind the bombing yesterday ultimately wins when we decide not to do something out of fear. Keep running for those injured and killed yesterday, keep running to recognize those spent hours caring for those hurt by the bomb and keep running to show fear doesn't hold you back.

It is pretty much known that bananas are a great fuel food for runners and with my husband being a long distance runner and cross country and track coach we frequently have bananas in the house but they don't always get eaten before they turn brown. I typically make banana bread or freeze the bananas to turn them into fruit smoothies later. Last week there was one banana turning brown and I wanted something different that my usual. Fortunately, I made a recipe for banana oatmeal nutella cookies. I have never made any cookies before with bananas ever and who can say no to anything that have Nutella in it? Certainly not me. I mean look at that ooey gooey chocolate yumminess.

Looks like I am all out of Nutella

To make these cookies, first gather together your ingredients.
1 1/2 cup flour, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1/2 cup white sugar, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 3 ripe bananas, mashed, 1 egg, 3/4 cup butter, melted, 1 1/2 cup oats, 1/2 cup Nutella.

*I made a few modifications to the original recipe. I only had 1 ripe banana and I didn't melt the butter.
Preheat your oven to 400 degrees. In your mixing bowl, cream the butter unless you melt the butter.

After the butter is creamed or if melted just add to the mixing bowl, add in both sugars and cream the ingredients together.

 After creaming the sugar and butter, add the egg and mix.

Then add in the ripe banana to the batter and mix the ingredients together.

Next add in the flour and baking soda.
 Throw in the oatmeal and get the batter a good mix.

 Now remove the bowl from the mixing stand platform, you will mix in the Nutella by hand to create swirls in  the batter rather than completely incorporate the Nutella into the cookie mixture.

Drop the Nutella in the cookie batter spoonful by spoonful then use a spatula to create a swirl effect in the cookie batter. I use an ice cream scoop to scoop the batter into cookies on the baking sheet. Bake the cookies for 8-10 minutes. The edges of the cookies should be a golden brown when done.

Remove from the oven then let the cookies cool slightly on the sheet before putting them on a cooling rack.

Then serve, eat and enjoy!
recipe found here 
Remember my post about 5 things I wanted to try, the first thing being a pure barre class well last night I tried a class with Kasey and I love it! I want to go back already!