Try these quick and easy cookies that will use up those bananas that are sitting on your counter getting too ripe! Moist with a touch of sweetness and chocolate chips! Both adults and kids love these oatmeal cookies!!!
Bananas tend to turn too fast in the summer months! In addition to these cookies my One Bowl Banana Bread or Banana Zucchini Bread are great options to use those bananas instead of throwing them away!
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Why Choose This Recipe
- Uses over ripe bananas!
- Quick and easy like my other Cookie Recipes!
- A good source of fiber!
Ingredient Notes
- Bananas - Over Ripe but not mostly brown or mushy.
Step by Step Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
- Spray baking sheets with non-stick cooking spray or line them with parchment paper.
- Cream the butter, sugar and brown sugar.
- Add the egg and vanilla.
- Mix in the mashed bananas.
- Add the cinnamon, baking soda, cloves and salt.
- Add the oatmeal and the flour.
- Add the chocolate chips.
- In picture 8 you can see that this is a sticky cookie dough don't add extra flour. Please let this cookie dough sit for 10 minutes before scooping out and baking. The oatmeal will absorb a lot of the moisture during that time. The cookie dough should sit be sticky but not as much. If you still think you need more flour you can add a little and bake a trial cookie.
- Scoop dough by tablespoonfuls on prepared cookie sheets.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes.
- Cookies should be slightly golden brown.
Recipe FAQs and Expert Tips
Not particularly but they're also not the most unhealthy cookie you could eat.
Yes, but you will need to pulse them in a food processor or blender until the oats are small like quick oats.
Try these Peanut Butter Banana Fruit Rolls or these Irresistible Banana Bars!
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Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes (per batch)
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 3 ½ Dozen 1x
- Category: Cookie
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Description
Try these quick and easy cookies that will use up those bananas that are sitting on your counter getting too ripe! Moist with a touch of sweetness and chocolate chips! Both adults and kids love these oatmeal cookies!!!
Ingredients
- 12 Tbs . Butter softened (1 ½ sticks)
- 1 cup Brown Sugar
- ½ cup White Sugar
- 1 Egg
- 1 tsp Vanilla
- 1 cup Mashed Bananas (roughly 3 average size bananas)
- 1 tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Baking Soda
- 1 tsp Cinnamon
- ½ tsp Cloves
- 3 cups Quick Cooking Oatmeal
- 1 ½ cups Flour
- 1 ½ cups Chocolate Chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Prepare baking sheets by spraying them with non-stick cooking spray or by lining them with parchment paper.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter, sugar and brown sugar.
- Beat in the egg and vanilla.
- In a separate bowl, mash the bananas up with a fork. Mash them until they are still a bit chunky. Pour bananas into the creamed ingredients.
- Stir in the salt, soda, cinnamon, and cloves.
- Add the oatmeal, flour and chocolate chips.
- Let the mixed cookie dough stand for about 10 minutes. After 10 minutes if the dough seems a bit to sticky add a little bit more flour. This dough is a stickier type, adding too much flour will result in tough and dry cookies.
- Drop cookie dough by Tablespoons onto prepared baking sheets.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes.
Notes
- Old fashioned oats can be used but must be pulsed in a food processor or blender until it's the size of quick oats.
Keywords: banana oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, banana and oat cookies, banana and oatmeal cookies
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G. T.
Loved these!
★★★★★
Amanda
Can't wait to make these. I've already made the brownie cookies twice...once with regular chocolate chips & once with mint chocolate chips. Doubled the batch each time & they were devoured quickly!
mindeescookingobsession
So glad you liked the brownie cookies!