Easy banana chocolate chip cookies recipe, requiring simple ingredients, ripe bananas and lots of chocolate. They are soft, moist with a cake like texture.
If you have any ugly RIPE bananas lying around, make these banana chocolate chip cookies asap.
This is my Mom's recipe and even after trying countless banana cookie recipes from cook books and blogs, I always come back to this family FAVORITE recipe.
I even tried those popular healthy banana chocolate chip cookies (3 ingredients) and honestly, I didn't like them too much.
Those might be good cookies for a quick breakfast on the go but they are certainly NOT the type of cookies I would put in a cookie basket.
However, these chocolate chip banana cookies are INCREDIBLE and PILLOWY SOFT and bursting with banana and chocolate flavors.
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There are NOT low fat banana chocolate chip cookies but you can do some MODIFICATIONS 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 cake" flavor and aroma to these cookies.
- 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.
- 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 banana cashew cookies, replace chocolate chips with chopped cashews.
- To make banana chocolate chip oatmeal cookies, add ¼ cup quick cooking oats in this recipe. This will yield chewy banana chocolate chip cookies.
- DON'T try to modify this recipe to make vegan banana chocolate chip cookies or gluten free banana chocolate chip cookies. 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!
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Recipe
Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Ingredients
- ⅓ cup Butter Unsalted
- ¼ cup Brown sugar
- ¼ cup Granulated sugar
- 1 Egg Large
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
- 1 cup All-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon Baking powder
- ½ teaspoon Cinnamon powder
- ½ cup Chocolate chips Semisweet, Milk or Dark
- 1 Banana Ripe, Mashed
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 on a tray lined with parchment paper.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 10 – 12 minutes OR until firm and golden brown along the edges. Enjoy!
Nutrition
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Until next time, tata my lovelies!
Cheryl and Adam
Yummy! Not enough cookies out there with cashews as far as we are concerned. Beautiful photos, too. Thanks!
Hester Casey
Bananas? Yes please. The cookies sound absolutely delicious - I've used up all my ripe bananas in muffins but I promise to save the next batch for making these lovely treats.
tammy
My husband hates bananas and my other partner dislikes most nuts (hubby is allergic to tree nuts) so I'd be the only one to eat these.
That is DANGEROUS.
angela
great combo!
briarrose
I never thought to use bananas in my cookies....excellent idea. They look oh so tasty....especially with the cashews.
Magic
What a unique and lovely recipe for cookies...I bet they are fantastic
anncoo
I love banana very much and this is the first time I see banana cookies, look so good. I'm bookmarking it and make this when I've banana at home.
Clarkie
Bananas rarely get a chance to get ripe in my home. I usually eat'em up pretty fast. Maybe if I hid it out of sight for a while, I will forget just long enough to try these out.
fooddreamer
brown bananas on their own are mushy and gross. but they are so good in baked goods! Great cookies.
Wendy Irene
I'm so picky about bananas looking pretty too! Otherwise they go into baking.
Cashews are my favorite nut! I love that you included them in a cookie
torview
i like banana cookies and these look delicious
Shari
These cookies look great - and it's so nice that you spilt the batter and made two different kinds (I'm guessing to appease your husband). Great post!
Bianca
I love bananas too! In fact they hardly ever get the chance to go black in my apartment because I eat them so quickly. These cookies sound so delicious!
Raymund Macaalay
I recenty made some banana based cookies recently but it is with cranberries and oats. Yours look really yummy!
Mamaloli
Looks yummy!! All my favorite ingredients in one cookie
Kate
I love bananas, too! Especially when they go black because I can finally bake with them! The cookies sound amazing... I've never had a cookie like this before!