Banana Oat Bread Cookies
BANANA Oat BREAD Cookies tastes just like banana bread! This healthy, easy to make recipe makes 3 dozen cookies filled with oatmeal, walnuts, chocolate chips! These cookies are soft and packed with protein to make the best breakfast or dessert!
What I love: cookies, bananas, banana bread. What I don’t love: overripe, brown bananas. With a bunch of bananas in the kitchen ripening quickly, there’s only one thing to do.. make Banana Oat Bread Cookies!
Do you have a fear of ripe, brown bananas too? Maybe it’s because it’s Summer time but lately my bananas have been ripening at much quicker speeds than usual. I like to eat bananas when they hit that perfect spot of just turning yellow – but no brown spots on them yet. The timeline for a perfect banana is slim. Once it starts to brown and turn soft I can’t eat them “raw” anymore. But that’s totally ok, because soft bananas are like the Cinderella of this story, except they don’t turn into a pumpkin at midnight, instead they turn into delicious cookies!
I have a bunch of banana recipes that I love, like these mini and moist banana muffins, and this banana nutella bread, but now I’m in love with these Banana Oat Bread Cookies!
These taste just like banana bread but in cookie form, so they make a great breakfast on the go! They’re packed with oatmeal and walnuts for some crunch and chocolate chips for some sweetness. Banana bread always tastes rich with spices, so this recipe uses 2 teaspoons of cinnamon to match the taste.
I hope you give these Banana Oat Bread Cookies a try – I think you’ll love them!
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Banana Oat Bread Cookies
BANANA Oat BREAD Cookies tastes just like banana bread! This healthy, easy to make recipe makes 3 dozen cookies filled with oatmeal, walnuts, chocolate chips! These cookies are soft and packed with protein to make the best breakfast or dessert!
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup butter - softened
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 3 ripe bananas -mashed
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 3 cups rolled oats
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
- 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray 2 cookie sheets with nonstick spray.
- In a large bowl cream together butter and brown sugar with hand mixer. Add in bananas, egg and vanilla and continue to mix. In the middle of the bowl add flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Continue to mix so everything is combined. Finally add rolled oats, walnuts and chocolate chips and mix with a spoon so they're equally distributed.
- Drop cookie dough by the tablespoon on cookie sheets. Leave about 2 inches between each one as they will expand.
- Bake for 9-11 minutes, until bottoms are slightly brown. Remove from oven and allow to cool before eating.
Recipe Notes
Makes about 3 dozen cookies.
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My husband always tries to throw away our overly ripe bananas and I freak out every time! Maybe if I made him these cookies he’d learn his lesson and stop 🙂
I love the combo of nuts, bananas and oats! These are some great breakfast cookies, Pam.
Looks yummy. When I use ripe bananas I roast them in the oven for about 10 minutes at 400 and then let them cool before using. It intensifies the banana flavor.
That’s such a great idea Colleen!
I’m totally in the almost-but-not-quite still green banana camp. At the first glimpse of brown I just wait until they ripen enough to make banana bread. LOVE these cookies!
What a great use of ripe bananas. I buy only a few at a time as they must be very firm for me to eat them.
These cookies look nice and delicious. Oats and bananas are a great combo. I am sure they taste good.
It looks so delicious! Thanks for sharing the recipe:)
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I love bananas as a fruit and this recipe looks so yummy! I must make it next weekend as a surprise to my family! Thank you for sharing 🙂
I love banana bread and as cookies?? Genius! Love this 🙂
These look so yummy! I love a good ripe banana recipe! There is no flavor like it! Take care.
These look really hearty and would be the perfect thing to send with kids as they rush out the door for the bus in the morning. Thanks for the recipe.
Looks good. I like a heavy cookie.
What a fab recipe to use up brown bananas! They sound so tasty 🙂
I love rolled oats in cookies and have a slight perversion towards overripe bananas in baking:) Cannot beat the flavors. These are awesome to pair with stouts. Pinned!
Those look ddlicious! Certainly better than my cereal! #tuestalk
These sound yummy!!
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These look beyond delicious!!!
I’m always making things with overripe bananas but I’ve never made cookies with them before. Love this wholesome, delicious recipe! Thank you so much for sharing, and for being a part of Hearth and Soul, Pamela. Pinning and sharing around, including on the Hearth and Soul Facebook page. Have a lovely weekend!
I think my whole family can get behind having these for breakfast on busy school morning. Or after school…or any time. ? Thanks so much for sharing at the #happynowlinkup!
These look delicious. I love banana bread and my family doesn’t eat bananas fast enough so always have to make something with the ripe ones. Pinned
This cookies look perfect for lunches they look sturdy and delicious both.
Those look packed full of crunchy goodness! I love the taste of bananas cooked into desserts. And I love a crunchy cookie, and especially love plump crunchy cookies!
My bananas have been ripening a lot more quickly this year too. I am glad to have an extra recipe to help use up my extra bananas.
Those sound amazing!! I’m always looking for new banana recipes, so I’m definitely going to try these. 🙂
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I love banana bread too. These sound great. Thanks for linking up for Friday Favorites. I’m featuring you this week.
What a great recipe for using ripe bananas. Pinned it so that I can make them soon!
Yummmm! These have all of the ingredients I love. I have no fear of black bananas. In fact, last week my hubby THREW a few out and I was crazed because I toss them in the freezer to use for baking lol.
These look so amazing! Thank you for sharing. You are one of the features at the Make it Pretty Monday party at The Dedicated House. Here is the link to this week’s shindig. http://www.thededicatedhouse.com/make-pretty-monday-week-226/ Have a happy week! Toodles, Kathryn @TheDedicatedHouse
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