Easy banana chocolate chip cookies recipe, homemade with simple ingredients. They are soft and moist with a cake-like texture. Great way to use up black ripe bananas.
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If you have any ugly ripe bananas lying around, put them to good use with this recipe today. If you are still looking for more inspiration, be sure to check out this collection of Ripe Banana Recipes. This is my Mom's recipe and even after trying countless recipes from cookbooks, magazines and websites, I always come back to this family favorite. I even tried the healthy 3 ingredient version but really didn't care for it much. These are just as delicious as my Easy Caramelized Bananas (With Cinnamon) and this Banana Upside Down Cake (With Cake Mix) as well as this Pumpkin Banana Bread (With Cake Mix).
There are NOT low fat cookies but you can do some substitutions to make them a bit healthier:
- Use coconut oil or coconut butter instead of butter.
- Use dark chocolate chips instead of milk or semisweet chocolate chips.
- Use a combination of whole wheat and all-purpose flour (½ cup all-purpose and ½ cup whole wheat).
TIPS for making MOIST banana chocolate chip cookies
- DON'T skip the step where you have to chill the dough since that prevents the cookies from spreading.
- Make sure to use unsalted butter.
- You must use really ripe bananas for best results.
- DON'T skip cinnamon powder since it adds a wonderful "banana bread" flavor and aroma to these cookies just like my Banana Bread (Cake Mix).
- Ingredients must all be at room temperature since they BLEND together thoroughly.
- DON'T replace granulated sugar with brown sugar or vice versa. You MUST use BOTH for the perfect texture!
- Instead of chocolate chips, include whatever add-ins you like such as walnuts, pecans, almonds, raisins, dried cranberries. Replace half the chocolate chips with chopped cashews or other nuts of your choice.
- Recipe can be doubled to make a bigger batch.
- To make peanut butter banana chocolate chip cookies, use ¼ cup creamy peanut butter and only 2 tablespoon unsalted butter.
- To make oatmeal cookies, add ¼ cup quick cooking oats in this recipe. This will yield chewy cookies similar to these Oatmeal Raisin Cookies.
- DON'T try to modify this recipe to make vegan or gluten free version. I tried and it did not work out well at all.
How to make banana chocolate chip cookies?
It's very SIMPLE. Start off by creaming together butter and sugar. Add egg, vanilla, banana, flour, baking powder, cinnamon. Mix everything together until smooth. Then, stir in chocolate chips. Bake and enjoy!
1. Mix ingredients in large bowl- This includes butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, egg, banana and vanilla.
2. Add flour, baking powder and cinnamon powder.
3. Mix until batter is just combined. Don't over-mix.
4. Stir in chocolate chips.
5. place scoops of dough on baking tray.
6. bake until golden brown.
More banana recipes
- Banana Chocolate Chip Cake
- Chocolate Banana Popsicles
- Mango Smoothie (With Orange and Banana)
- Banana Raspberry Smoothie
- Easy Banana Crumble
- Frozen Chocolate Covered Bananas
Recipe
Soft Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Ingredients
- ⅓ cup Butter Unsalted, Room temperature
- ¼ cup Brown sugar
- ¼ cup Granulated sugar
- 1 Egg Large, Room temperature
- 1 Banana Ripe, Mashed
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
- 1- ¼ cup All-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon Baking powder
- ½ teaspoon Cinnamon powder
- ¾ cups Chocolate chips Semisweet, Milk or Dark
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, cream together butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add egg, banana, vanilla extract and mix until well-blended.
- Add flour, baking powder, cinnamon powder and mix until just combined.
- Stir in chocolate chips.
- Refrigerate the dough for 1 hour.
- Scoop out small portions of cookie dough and place them on a tray lined with parchment paper.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for 10-12 minutes or until firm and golden brown along the edges. Enjoy.
Notes
- Other mix-ins include: chopped nuts, other flavors of chocolate chips, chopped candy bars, shredded coconut, dried cranberries.
- All ingredients must be at room temperature.
- You must chill the dough to prevent the cookies from over-spreading during baking.
- Make cookie sandwiches by adding frosting between two cookies.
- Read additional tips and variations above.
- Leftovers can be stored in a cookie jar at room temperature for 2-3 days or in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.
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Tiffany
OMG! I love bananas! And these cookies sound amazing!
kankana
This is a great cookies. I like banana a lot. I am saving this to give a try sometime
Nashi
Those cookies look yum! I'm always thrilled to see your step-by-step pictorial that make the recipe so easy for your readers. Hey have you considered submitting your recipes to Visual Recipes? They take submission of only those recipes with pictures of the major steps, you could drive a lot of traffice to your site too- check it out! Cheers!
Olivia Bevan
Fabulous recipe, thanks for sharing. They were so delicious
melissa
Mmmm! these look yum!
I love bananas so much, I never seem to have any really ripe ones lying around. I should probably buy more so I can have some to bake with!
Kelly
Hey FoodBuzz friend! Stopping by to catch up on your blog! These cookies look amazing, nice recipe!!
gringarl
I rarely eat bananas. Most of teh time I use them in baking. Buy them on purpose a little over ripe so I have one more reason to bake. Never make banana cookies thou. Got to try them. Thanks for sharing
mr.sound
I am quite interested in this recipe.Really quick and easy to make.
Crystal
These were delicious! I'd been looking for a good banana cookie recipe, and here it is! A nice change from banana bread. Cookies are soft (banana) with a bit of crispness on the bottom the first day. I used the recipe as you presented it and added a bit of orange zest.
Abeer Rizvi
Oooooo... The addition of orange sounds delicious. I must try that next time! I am so happy you enjoyed this recipe
Christine Rooney
I love all the flavors in these cookies! And they're nice and soft just like banana bread!
Kasey Schwartz
Well, these look amazing!! I can't wait to try them! Thank you for sharing! I love cookies. ALL cookies!