Crunchy Monkey Nestle® Toll House® Cookies

These salty and sweet cookies add a unique spin to the favorite Nestlé® Toll House® Chocolate Chip Cookie we all know and love. Filled with banana chips, chopped peanuts and milk chocolate morsels, you can't go wrong.

Prep: 15 min | Bake: 11 min | Yield: 60 cookies

Ingredients

• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 large eggs
• 2 cups (5.5 ounce package) dried banana chips, chopped*
• 1 3/4 cups (11.5 ounce package) Nestlé® Toll House® Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chunks
• 3/4 cup chopped salted peanuts

Instructions

1. Heat oven to 375 degrees F.
2. Combine flour, baking soda and salt in small bowl.
3. Beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract in large mixer bowl until creamy.
4. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
5. Gradually beat in flour mixture.
6. Stir in banana chips, chunks and peanuts.
7. Drop by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased cookie sheets.
8. Bake for 9 to 11 minutes or until golden brown.
9. Cool on cookie sheets for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.

Notes

* Banana chips can be chopped using a food processor or placing in heavy-duty plastic food storage bag and pounding with a rolling pin.