Categories: Cookies, Desserts 
      Yield: 24 cookies 
  
      1 c  Margarine or butter 
           -- softened 
      1 c  Brown sugar, firmly packed 
  1 1/2 c  Mashed ripe banana 
           -- (about 4 medium) 
      2    Eggs 
      2 ts Vanilla 
  2 1/2 c  Quaker Oats, uncooked 
           -- (quick or old-fashioned) 
      2 c  All-purpose flour 
      1 ts Baking soda 
    1/4 ts Salt (optional) 
      6 oz Semisweet chocolate pieces 
           Ice cream or frozen yogurt 
           Ice cream topping 
           -- (any flavor) 
  
  Heat oven to 350 F.  Beat together margarine and sugar until creamy.  Add 
  banana, eggs and vanilla; beat well.  Add combined oats, flour, baking 
  soda and salt; mix well.  Stir in chocolate pieces; mix well.  Drop by 1/4 
  cupfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet about 3 inches apart.  Spread dough to 
  3-1/2-inch diameter.  Bake 14 to 16 minutes or until edges are light 
  golden brown.  Cool 1 minute on cookie sheet; remove to wire rack.  Cool 
  completely.  To serve, top each cookie with a scoop of ice cream and ice 
  cream topping. 
   
  Nutrition Information (1 cookie without ice cream or topping): 
  * Calories: 225 
  * Fat 11g 
  * Sodium 130mg 
  * Dietary Fiber 1g 
   
  Source: Quaker Oats Favorite Cookies 
  Copyright 1994, The Quaker Oats Company 
  Reprinted with permission from The Quaker Oats Company 
  Electronic format courtesy of Karen Mintzias