**Introduction to Pookies**

Greetings, my beautiful lovelies! It's Emmy! How are you? Today we are going to be making 10-minute pookies. Pookies, pookies pookies pookies. When I first heard about this recipe, the first thing I thought of because I have a couple of middle school aged children, I thought of Pookie. Hey Pookie. Hey Pookie. The brain rot, Pookie. But apparently, pookies can also be pancake cookies, which we are going to be making today.

**The Origin and Name of Pookies**

This recipe intrigued me first, number one, for the name, and because you can make them and cook them all in 10 minutes. That means bake time of eight minutes and mixing it all together in two minutes. 10 minutes, you get pookies. So what is a pookie? A pookie is a portmanteau of a pancake and a cookie. The recipe I'm gonna be using today comes from Kayou Kitchen over on the TikToks.

**Preparing for Baking**

And that reminds me of that show that my preschoolers used to watch, Caillou. So everything you need to make pookies are here. You also need a blender or some sort of whizzer upper. You could use a food processor, I imagine, but because these are pretty small amounts, a smaller size thing would be better, like a Magic Bullet, or something like that. I'm gonna be using my blender. I hope that works. But I guess we're gonna find out.

**The Importance of Ripe Bananas**

We are going to need a small banana. And as you can see, my banana is green, so that means it is very starchy. The starches have not been converted to sugars yet. We don't have a nice bright yellow peel, no blackening, no dots, which are all signs of a ripe banana, which we like to use for baked goods, because of the sweetness and strong, yummy banana flavor. So I don't know if this has happened to you. I imagine it has, but sometimes you just feel like I want banana bread, or in this case, I want pookies, but I cannot find a ripe banana. What do you do?

**The Solution to Starchy Bananas**

Oven's up to temp. My gosh! Why does it have to be so alarming? And it's like, why can't it be friendly? Lost my train of thought. I was talking about bananas, and what to do when you want a ripe banana. Now, I remember for along time ago they said, put your bananas in a brown paper bag and the ethylene gas that is released from the banana, which causes it to ripen, will be trapped and will hasten the whole ripening process. They also say you can put bananas with avocados with the same idea that the ethylene gas will ripen both the avocado and the banana. But that doesn't really help me have banana bread right now. So this is a perfect opportunity to try out something that I've wanted to try since I read it quite a while ago.

**Banana Ripening Techniques**

It's by Stella Parks, who is the author of various baking books. She has shared her expertise on how to ripen bananas quickly and efficiently. By following these simple steps, you can have ripe bananas in no time, perfect for making delicious pookies. I'll share more about this technique later in the article.

**The Recipe**

Now, let's get started with the recipe. We're going to need all the ingredients listed below... (insert ingredients list). As we make our way through the recipe, I'll provide you with step-by-step instructions and tips to ensure that your pookies turn out perfect.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en(bright music)- Greetings, my beautiful lovelies.It's Emmy! How are you?It's great to see you, and welcome back.Today we are going to bemaking 10-minute pookies.Pookies, pookies pookies pookies.When I first heard about this recipe,the first thing I thought ofbecause I have a couple ofmiddle school aged children,I thought of Pookie.Hey Pookie. Hey Pookie.The brain rot, Pookie.But apparently, pookies canalso be pancake cookies,which we are going to be making today.This recipe intrigued me first,number one, for the name,and because you canmake them and cook themall in 10 minutes.That means bake time of eight minutesand mixing it all together in two minutes.10 minutes, you get pookies.So what is a pookie?A pookie is a portmanteauof a pancake and a cookie.The recipe I'm gonna be using todaycomes from Kayou Kitchenover on the TikToks.And that reminds me of that show thatmy preschoolers used to watch, Caillou.So everything you needto make pookies are here.You also need a blender orsome sort of whizzer upper.You could use a food processor, I imagine,but because these arepretty small amounts,a smaller size thing would be better,like a Magic Bullet,or something like that.I'm gonna be using myblender. I hope that works.But I guess we're gonna find out.We are going to need a small banana.And as you can see, my banana is green,so that means it is very starchy.The starches have not beenconverted to sugars yet.We don't have a nice bright yellow peel,no blackening, no dots,which are all signs of a ripe banana,which we like to use for baked goods,because of the sweetness andstrong, yummy banana flavor.So I don't know if thishas happened to you.I imagine it has,but sometimes you just feellike I want banana bread,or in this case I want pookies,but I cannot find a ripe banana.What do you do?(oven beeps)Oven's up to temp.My gosh! Why does ithave to be so alarming?And it's like, why can't it be friendly?Lost my train of thought.I was talking about bananas,and what to do whenyou want a ripe banana.Now, I remember for along time ago they said,put your bananas in a brown paper bagand the ethylene gas thatis released from the banana,which causes it to ripen,will be trapped and will hastenthe whole ripening process.They also say you canput bananas with avocadoswith the same idea thatthe ethylene gas will ripenboth the avocado and the banana.But that doesn't really helpme have banana bread right now.So this is a perfect opportunityto try out somethingthat I've wanted to trysince I read it quite a while ago.It's by Stella Parks.She's the author of \"BraveTart\".Love that cookbook.But this trick uses amylase,which is an enzyme that the bananaactually produces on its own.Ethylene gas also producesenzymes in the bananathat help ripen thebanana, including amylase,which breaks down the starch into sugarsand makes your banana sweet.Well amylase, that enzyme,is also contained in eggs,more specifically egg yolks.So according to Stella,you can just take your unripe bananaand mash it up with the egg yolk.She's presuming you're making banana breador some recipe that contains egg.So you mash it up with the egg yolk,let it sit for half an hour.And she did some testsmeasuring the amount of starch,and sure enough, the starchwas converted into sugars!I love, love love love science,food science especially.She said, Harold McGeealso writes about thisin his food book, whichif you love food science,you should check that out too.All kinds of great food science.In fact, do I have it here?Harold McGee, where are you?So here's Stella's book, \"BraveTart\".Fabulous.And here's Harold McGee's book,\"On Food and Cooking: TheScience and Lore of the Kitchen\".Highly recommend too,if you are interestedat all in food science.It's great.It's one of the first, like,cookbook-like books I bought.No!Actually, this wasgiven to me by my honey.I love little dedications and notes.Okay, we'll stop.So I've got a baking panprepared with parchment,and before I started filming,I took my unripe banana,whizzed it up in my blenderalong with my one egg yolk.This recipe contains one egg,so I will put the eggwhite in here as well.But the amylase is in the egg yolk,so that will sweeten upour un-ripened banana.Now, if you have a ripe banana,you don't have to do any of that, right?Which we're presuming.'Cause that will makethis a 10-minute recipe.So, interesting!My banana has definitely oxidized.It's turned brown.Next we're going to add therest of our ingredients.I'm gonna add the egg white.So this recipe was written in grams,but I know many of youdo not have a scale.So I put everything in measuring cups,and it's about a quartercup of granulated sugar.And to poof these up,we're going to use some baking powder.Add that to there.Some flour, about three quarters of a cup.And about a third ofcup of dark chocolate.Yum.We're just gonna whizthis until it's mixed up.I don't wanna break upthe chocolate too much.(blender whirs)In the recipe, it lookedlike a thin batter,but mine looks like a thick batter.Oops.Maybe 'cause my banana was a little small?I don't know, maybe.Look, it's pretty thick.Now we're gonna dole these out onto a panand it makes six pookies.See how mine is kind of dough-like?In the recipe video,theirs are pretty liquid.I don't know. I followed the recipe.So hopefully yours will be thinner.Maybe my banana was on the small side.Didn't really say the size of the banana.Just said banana.I'm making a mess, but that's all right.That's what you do in the kitchen.Okay. So there are my pookies.I'm gonna spread 'em out a little bit,because these are supposedto be kind of like pancakes.That's why they're called pookies.Just a little.And now we're gonna popthese into a 350 degree ovenand bake them for eight minutes.That's it! And then we've got pookies!So I'll see you in eight minutes.(chill music)Alrighty, my lovelies!Here we have it.The baked pookies.They look a lot like puffy cookies.The pookies that were inthe TikTok video I sawwere much thinner and more pancake-like,so perhaps there's a littlebit of user error here.I'm not sure, but they don't look too bad.A little pale, but definitely puffy.And, wow,these are hot outta the oven.So super hot.I used really good qualitychocolate, so there's that.All right, let's give these a taste.Wow, these are really hot.Woo! Look at that!Steaming hot.Pretty thick.Cooked all the way through.Alrighty, my first pookie!Itadakimasu!Hmm!Hmm.Reminds me a lot of bananabread, but not as sweet.The texture is quite cakey,much more pancakey-like,and cakey, in my case,because mine are prettythick, than a cookie.And far less sweet thana traditional cookieyou would have here in the States.Definitely approve of usingsome good quality dark chocolate.Delicious, but not very sweet.So don't expect these to be very sweet.And in that sense, it's muchmore similar to the pancake.Just kinda lightly sweetened.Banana flavor is present,but not super strong.Again, if you were touse a super ripe banana,I think that flavor wouldcome out much more pronounced,but it's definitely present.But yeah, it reminds mea lot of banana bread,kind of in a pancakey, thick pancake form.Fluffy pancake form.Definitely more fluffypancake than cookie,even though it looks kind of by gestalt,perhaps more like a cookie.But when you feel it,it's more kind of bready and softand fluffy and cakey,rather than being chewyor crackly or crunchy,or even having a crisp exterior.Doesn't have any ofthose qualities at all.It's much more kind of bready,or even like, muffin-like.Yeah, I would say that.Not as sweet as a cupcake,or definitely not as sweetas banana bread or zucchini bread.Much more like a pancake.So it is an appropriate name!Pookie.Flavored more like a pancake,but has the outwardappearances of a cookie.Mhmm. It's okay.In a nutshell,if you want a quick and easylittle snack or breakfast,it definitely could cometogether in 10 minutesif you have a ripe banana.Maybe before work, forbreakfast or something.Maybe this is for you.Is it faster than pancakes?Yeah, I would say it's abit faster than pancakes.Pancakes, you have to cook on a griddleafter you make the batter.So there's that.Alrighty, my lovelies.There you have it.10-minute pookies.Thanks so much for watching.I hope you enjoyed that one.I hope you learned something.Please share this video with your friends.Follow me on social media,like this video, subscribe,and I shall see you in the next one.Toodle-oo.Take care. Bye!(uplifting string music)We're gonna let the kids trythese and see what they think.\n"