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Chocolate Chip Banana Oatmeal Cookies

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Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies — These cookies are soft, moist, and oh-so chewy. They taste like banana bread and chocolate chip cookies rolled into one dessert! Hundreds of 5-star reviews for a reason – they are just SO AMAZING! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️



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These chocolate chip banana oatmeal cookies are my holy grail of desserts rolled in one. They have the flavor of banana bread, the chewy texture of oatmeal cookies, and the soft and gooey factor of chocolate chip cookies.

They’re soft, chewy, moist, and not at all cakey, which can be a problem when baking with bananas. Cookies that taste like little banana cakes instead of cookies are not my idea of cookies, and thankfully these are all cookie, zero cake.

These banana cookies are adapted from my favorite oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. I reduced the butter, added bananas, and increased the flour. Bananas contain so much moisture that more flour is needed to absorb it.

You’re going to love the bold banana flavor, the chewy oats that add so much texture, and plenty of chocolate that melts in your mouth in every bite.

Recipe Ingredients

For these banana oat chocolate chip cookies, you’ll need: 

Note: Scroll down to the recipe card section of the post for the ingredients with amounts included and for more complete directions.

How to Make Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

If you’ve ever made regular chocolate chip cookies before, you can easily make these oatmeal chocolate chip cookies with banana! Here’s an outline of the recipe steps:

  1. Whip together the wet ingredients (because of the bananas, the mixture won’t look light and fluffy at all).
  2. Stir in the dry ingredients and carefully fold in the chocolate chips. 
  3. Scoop the cookie dough onto a parchment paper-lined baking tray and chill for at least 2 hours.
  4. Pop the chilled cookie dough balls into a preheated oven and bake until the edges are just set. You don’t want to over bake the cookies — remember that they’ll firm up as they cool on your counter.

Recipe FAQs

Can I Use Milk Chocolate Chips? 

You can use your favorite chocolate chips (or chunks!) in this banana cookie recipe. Personally, I wouldn’t recommend using white chocolate chips since I think they’d make these cookies too sweet, but use whatever flavor of chocolate chips you like. 

Can I Make These With Quick Oats? 

No, quick and steel cut oats will not work for these banana oat cookies. Rolled (old-fashioned) oats are a must for these banana oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. 

Do I Have to Chill the Cookie Dough? 

Yes! The banana oatmeal chocolate chip cookie dough is soft, loose, moist, and must be chilled before baking or the cookies will spread into thin, flat pancakes. 

How ripe should bananas be when using them for baking?

Your bananas should be nice and ripe, but not black. If the bananas are very overripe (black), the cookies won’t be quite the right texture or taste. 

Recipe Tips

Adding the bananas: When I add the bananas to the wet ingredients, I add them in whole and don’t pre-mash them. Your mixer should do all the hard work for you, but if you’re making the cookie dough by hand it might be helpful to pre-mash the bananas. 

Cinnamon: The cinnamon is optional but recommended. Adding 1/2 teaspoon doesn’t make the cookies taste overly of cinnamon, it just adds some warmth to the cookies.

Bake time: Because bananas have differing levels of moisture and no two are exactly alike, baking times could range. Don’t get too hung up on what the clock says and bake until your cookies are done.

Make-Ahead Instructions

You can actually make the banana chocolate oatmeal cookie dough ahead of time and freeze it for later. Just scoop out the dough as if you’re going to bake the cookies immediately, but freeze them instead of placing them in the fridge.

You can bake the frozen cookie dough as is, but you may have to leave them in the oven for an additional 1 to 2 minutes. 

Storage Instructions

Room temperature: Let the cookies cool completely, then store in an airtight container or zip-top bag. The cookies will last up to 5 days.

Freezer: Store in an airtight container and freeze them for up to 6 months. 

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Chocolate Chip Banana Oatmeal Cookies

By Averie Sunshine
These banana oatmeal cookies are soft, moist, and oh-so chewy. They taste like banana bread and chocolate chip cookies rolled into one dessert! 
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 13 minutes
Chill Time: 2 hours
Total Time: 2 hours 23 minutes
Servings: 14
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Ingredients  

  • 1 large egg
  • 2 small/medium or 1 extra-large ripe bananas, about 1/2 heaping cup mashed banana
  • ½ cup light brown sugar, packed
  • ¼ cup granulated sugar
  • ¼ cup unsalted butter, softened 1/2 of 1 stick
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1 ½ cups old-fashioned whole rolled oats*
  • 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
  • ½ to 1 teaspoon cinnamon, optional
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 1 ¼ cups semi-sweet chocolate chips

Instructions 

  • To the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment (or large mixing bowl and electric mixer) combine the egg, bananas (I leave them whole and don’t pre-mash them before adding to bowl), sugars, butter, vanilla, and beat on medium-high speed until well combined, about 4 minutes. The mixture won’t be smooth, fluffy, or ‘creamed’ like traditional cookie dough and will have small chunks of bananas present and it’s on the runnier side.
  • Stop, scrape down the sides of the bowl, and add the oats, flour, cinnamon, baking soda, salt, and beat on low speed until just combined, about 1 minute.
  • Stop, scrape down the sides of the bowl, and add the chocolate chips, and beat on low speed until just combined, about 30 seconds.
  • Using a 
    large cookie scoop, 1/4-cup measure, or your hands, form approximately 14 equal-sized mounds of dough.**
  • Place mounds on a large plate or tray, cover with plasticwrap, and refrigerate for at least 2 hours, up to 5 days. This is a wetter, looser dough and isn’t suitable for baking until it’s been chilled. Do not bake with unchilled dough because cookies will bake thinner, flatter, and be more prone to spreading.
  • Preheat oven to 350F, line a baking sheet with a Silpat or spray with cooking spray. Place dough mounds on baking sheet, spaced at least 2 inches apart (I bake 8 cookies per sheet) and bake for about 13 minutes (for very soft cookies, longer for more well-done cookies), or until edges have set and tops are just set, even if slightly undercooked, pale, and glossy in the center; don’t overbake.
  • Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for about 10 minutes before serving. I let them cool on the baking sheet and don’t use a rack.

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Notes

*Not instant or quick-cook because they act more like flour and aren’t suitable here.
**Tip: Strategically place a few chocolate chips on top of each mound of dough by taking chips from the underside and adding them on top.
Bake time: Note that the cookies firm up as they cool. Baking times could range widely due to the moisture content variances in bananas, climate and oven variances; bake until your cookies are done.
Storage: Cookies will keep airtight at room temperature for up to 1 week or in the freezer for up to 6 months. Alternatively, unbaked cookie dough can be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days, or in the freezer for up to 4 months, so consider baking only as many cookies as desired and save the remaining dough to be baked in the future when desired.

Nutrition

Serving: 1, Calories: 266kcal, Carbohydrates: 35g, Protein: 3g, Fat: 9g, Saturated Fat: 5g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g, Cholesterol: 22mg, Sodium: 92mg, Fiber: 2g, Sugar: 22g

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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Originally published April 13, 2015 and republished April 9, 2021 with updated text.