Ever wanted to have loaded banana bread in cookie form? Look no further! These Banana Bread Cookies are packed with chocolate chips, walnuts, oats, and banana flavor.
What ingredients go into these cookies?
- Flour: All-purpose flour
- Salt: Kosher, please!
- Baking powder & baking soda: Gotta give these cookies a little lift.
- Cinnamon: A bit of cinnamon really makes these cookies taste even more banana bread-y
- Old-fashioned oats: I often like to include oats in my banana bread, so why not in cookies, too? It helps to make them nice and chewy.
- Butter: Unsalted butter allows you to control how salty the final product is.
- Sugars: You'll use both white granulated sugar and brown sugar in these cookies.
- Egg: One large egg.
- Vanilla extract: Use store bought or make your own!
- Bananas: I've found that two very ripe medium-sized bananas work perfectly in these cookies.
- Chocolate chips: I used semi-sweet, but use whatever you like here!
- Walnuts: Another classic banana bread ingredient. Walnuts give a nice crunch to the cookies.
How do these cookies come together?
Start by combining all of your dry ingredients and setting them aside for a minute or two.
Next, you'll cream the butter and both sugars together until light and fluffy. Add the vanilla extract and egg. Don't forget the mashed bananas!
Once those are combined, little by little, add the dry ingredients to the wet. Once everything is just combined, add the chocolate chips (reserving some for the top of the cookies) and walnuts.
Scoop onto baking sheets, bake, and allow them to cool. Eat!
Looking for other banana bread-y recipes?
I have Pumpkin Banana Bread, Gluten Free (and refined sugar-free) Banana Bread, and Hummingbird Banana Bread!
If muffins are more your style, check out these Gingerbread Banana Muffins and Double Chocolate Banana Walnut Muffins, too.
Where does this recipe come from?
The recipe for these cookies is adapted from Your Cup of Cake.
✨ Recipe
Banana Bread Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 cup old-fashioned oats
- 12 tablespoon unsalted butter softened
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar packed
- 1 egg
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 medium ripe bananas mashed
- 2 cups chocolate chips plus more for topping the cookies
- ¾ cups walnuts chopped
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
- In a medium-sized bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and oats. Set this aside for a moment.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream the butter and sugars together. Beat for 2-3 minutes, or until it is light and fluffy.
- Add the egg, vanilla extract, and mashed bananas. Scrape down the sides of the bowl as necessary.
- Little by little, add the dry ingredients to the wet, being careful not to over mix the dough.
- Add the chocolate chips and walnuts and mix to combine.
- Using a cookie scoop, portion the dough onto the prepared baking sheets. Top with some more chocolate chips, if you'd like. Bake for 9-12 minutes, or until the edges just begin to turn golden brown.
- Allow the cookies to cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing them to a wire rack to finish cooling completely.
Nutrition
Disclaimer: Nutritional information is a generated estimate and is not guaranteed to be accurate.
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Helen
These are really good. Can you freeze them?
laurenpacek
Thank you!! Sure, you can freeze them. I'd probably do it in a freezer zip top bag; just make sure that you get allllll of the air out when you seal the bag. And if you're going to have more than one layer of cookies in the bag, put a sheet of parchment paper between the layers of cookies.