BANANA OATMEAL COOKIES

3 bananas
1/3 cup salad oil
2 cups oatmeal (quick cook)
1-1/2 cups chopped dates
1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans
1 tsp. vanilla
3/4 tsp. salt

Mash bananas. In large bowl add all the following ingredients. Drop by rounded Tablespoons on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 20-25 minutes. Makes 30.BANANA OATMEAL COOKIES
Makes 6 dozen cookies

1 c Sugar
2/3 c shortening
2 Eggs
3/4 c Banana; mashed
1/2 ts Vanilla
1/2 ts Lemon juice
1 1/2 c Rolled oats
2 c Flour
3/4 ts Soda
1 ts Baking powder
1 ts Salt
1/2 c Nuts; your choice/ chopped

Sift flour, soda, baking powder and salt together. Cream together sugar and shortening. Beat in well beaten eggs.stir in the vanilla, lemon juice, and banana. Add rolled oats and nuts to flour mixture, alternately with banana mixture, mixing well after each addition. Stir in nuts. Drop by teaspoon onto greased baking sheet and bake in preheated 350 degree oven 15 to 18 minutes, or until golden.BANANA SUNFLOWER SEED COOKIES
From Pattye Zensen who says: "I got this recipe from my Grandmother. They are really wonderful cookies, moist, chewy, and nutty. She makes them with only 1/2 cup sugar and they taste great!"
Makes 3 dozen

1/2 c Oil
2 md Bananas
1/2 c Sugar
1 1/2 c Flour
1 c Sunflower seeds
1 ts Baking soda

Bananas should be really ripe.
Preheat oven to 350.
Peel and mash bananas. In large bowl, beat oil, bananas, and sugar. Mix flour with sunflower seeds and soda. Add dry ingredients to banana mixture and stir until thoroughly mixed. Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls about 2" apart onto ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake about 15 minutes, until edges are golden brown. HAWAIIAN BANANA BARS from Cookierecipe.com

1/4 cup shortening
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup ripe bananas, mashed
1/2 cup chopped nuts
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup confectioners' sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease 11 x 7 inch pan.
In large mixing bowl, combine shortening, brown sugar, vanilla, lemon juice and banana until well blended.
Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt. Slowly add to the banana mixture; stir until well blended. Stir in chopped nuts.
Pour into pan and bake for 30 to 35 minutes.
While warm, cut into bars and remove from pan. Combine powdered sugar and cinnamon. Gently roll warm bars in sugar-cinnamon mixture.SUGARLESS BANANA COOKIES
24 cookies

3 md Bananas; mashed
1/3 c Oil
1 ts Vanilla
2 c Oats, rolled (raw); -old-fashioned
1 1/4 c Nuts; chopped
1/4 c Raisins

Combine bananas, oil and vanilla. Stir in oats, nuts and raisins. Drop by tablespoons onto greased cookie sheet. Press down lightly with fork. Preheat oven to 350 F. Bake 10-12 minutes until golden brown.OATMEAL-RAISIN BANANA COOKIES

3 c oatmeal
1 1/2 c flour
1/2 c sugar
1 c packed brown sugar
1 c margarine, softened
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp powdered cloves
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 banana
1 c raisins

Preheat oven to 350F. In a large bowl, mash banana, and mix with margarine, sugars, and vanilla until creamy. in another large bowl, mix flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and cloves. Add dry mixture to wet mixture and mix together completely. mix in oatmeal and raisins.
Place dollops of cookie mixture onto ungreased cookie tray. You can make them any size, but if you make them too large or small, you may have to adjust the cooking time. For dollops about 2.5" in diameter, 15 minutes will suffice. Slightly undercooked cookies are chewier, overcooked are slightly brown and will
become crunchier after cooling. Bake for 15 minutes, or until slightly golden-brown.
Variations: Chopped walnuts and/or chocolate chip cookies are nice additions to this recipe. If you add either or both, reduce the amount of raisins. About 1 1/2 c total of raisins/nuts/chips/whatever is enough.GINGER-OAT-COOKIES
From: "Ellen M. Sentovich

2 bananas, mashed
1/2 cup molasses
3/4 cup sugar
2 tsp vanilla
1 cup flour
2 cups oats
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp ginger
3 tsp cinnamon

Mix bananas, molasses, sugar, and vanilla. Add remaining ingredients and bake at 350F 10-15 minutes.
(Note: can leave out sugar if you don't like such sweet cookies.)