The Story:
On the road again. Well, this time I guess flew. To Chicago of all places! I’m here in a suburb of the Windy City helping my elderly parents move (they called themselves “elderly” so I’m allowed to repeat their words). I could only take what I could pack in 2 suitcases, so I ended up with very few baking and photography things. Let’s see how I did…
Banana Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 C. flour
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
- 3/4 C. butter softened
- 1/2 C. sugar
- 1/2 C. brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 large ripe banana mashed
- 1 cup old-fashioned oats
- 2 C. chocolate chips
Instructions
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1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
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2. In a large bowl, sift flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder and cinnamon together.
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3. In a stand mixer, beat butter, sugar and brown sugar for 2 minutes until light and fluffy.
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4. Egg egg and vanilla extract and beat until combined. Scrape down the sides of the mixer as needed.
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5. Add mashed banana and slowly add in dry ingredients (flour, salt...) and oats. Don't over mix.
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6. Stir in chocolate chips. (Add walnuts also if you want!)
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7. Scoop out golf-ball sized dough balls and bake for 9-12 minutes or until the bottoms start to turn golden brown. Be careful not to over-bake!
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8. Let cool and serve with milk!
My favorite cookies scoop (Vollrath Disher from Amazon)
My little photo set-up
My “back-drop” was just a piece of a cardboard box. I know, I’m really fancy 🙂
Have you tried Trader Joe’s Mixed Berries? I use those in place of chocolate chips, then my son takes these for breakfast. I also tend to throw in a tablespoon of flax seed for good measure. Gotta keep the boy healthy!
Are they fresh or dried berries?
O have not! These would be great with walnuts too!
i like it when you include extra pictures after the recipe and explain what you’re doing!
Had all of the ingredients so I just made these. Delish!!!
Just took these out of the oven. Excellent! Thanks for another great recipe.
I absolutely love your site! I have gotten so many ideas 🙂 As much as I love your recipes and amazing creativity, there is one part of your site that gives me hope for my little blog. I love your photo setup/ lighting/ background tips – they are things I never would have thought of 🙂 and your photos always turn out amazing!!
Thank you so much Rachel!
I am going to the kitchen in a minute to make these happen OMG!!! Mouth is watering!!!
Hello from Hong Kong. Thanks for the nice recipe; tried last night and kids loved 😀
How many cookies does this make? They look delicious! 🙂
It depends on how large you make the cookies, but about 3-4 dozen!
These cookies looked delicious and I had some over-ripe bananas I needed to use so I followed this recipe to a T, except added another banana and then cut the butter down by a 1/4 cup to compensate for the banana. At the end of 9 mins, I took them out and the bottoms were brown but the top portion didn’t look like a cookie at all. It just looked like hardened cookie scoops on the tray. They didn’t do anything and they weren’t cooked inside either. What could have happened here? I bake regularly but this recipe just messed me up at the end!
Oh, and so I put them back in the oven and even at 12 mins they weren’t cooked but the bottoms were browner!
Adding another banana would totally change the recipe. You would have to double all the other ingredients if you were to add more banana. Other people have tried this recipe and loved it, so I guess I would just say stick to the recipe! Sorry!
As I type this I’ve got a batch of cookies in the oven. Every time I’ve made this recipe I’ve added two banana’s and have kept the rest of the recipe the same. They’re usually medium ones. I’ve never had a problem it. The one’s that are in the oven are Banana Oatmeal Blueberry and Flax seed Cookies. Can’t wait to see how they turn out. 🙂
This is the 3rd batch I’ve made — I followed recipe to the letter. PERFECTION. The cookie dough itself is the best I’ve ever made (it maybe the banana, but the taste and texture is perfect). I look forward to adding the dried berries and walnuts! Thanks for sharing!!
Oh yay!!!! So happy you loved it as much as I do!
These look incredible! ♥ How many cookies does one recipe make? 🙂 😀
Just depends on how large you make them, but about 3-4 dozen
I LOVE these cookies. I was wondering if you had nutritional facts? I’m mostly just looking for calories!! Thank you thank you!! 🙂
Sorry, I do not! But there are many programs online where you can punch in the ingredients and get the calories!
Seriously the best recipe EVER! Thank you for sharing. They are perfect and I will try my best not to eat the entire batch before everyone wakes up in the morning.
Very versatile recipe! I didn’t have brown sugar, so just doubled the regular sugar. And then poured it into a bread pan and baked it like a hearty banana bread. Worked great! Many compliments. Thanks so much!
very good recipe. I doubled the recipe (not that I needed to, because this recipe makes a lot of cookies!!) and added some flax seed as well. They came out a little heavy and chewy, I could have made a mistake in my measurements though! I tend to do that, I have baking A.D.D. lol! But none the less, it’s a very good breakfast cookie. 🙂 thank you Lizzie.
These cookies were SO good! Forget regular old Chocolate Chip Cookies, these are my new favorite go-to cookie treat! DELICIOUS!
Does this call for milk chocolate chips or semi-sweet chocolate chips? I love this recipe, only one person said it was too sweet & I should of used semi-sweet? Also if I wanted to make the batter in advance, could I freeze it & if so, how long could it keep if frozen? I want to keep these on hand for last minute parties! Thanks
Could I omit the oats? Would the cookies not bake as well?
Making the recipe and that stupid chart of pinterest, share eat keeps popping up at side or recipe making it impossible to see. Please get rid of it. Sometimes it lets me move it to side, we’ll cent did otherwise it’s a bother. Thank you so much, looking forward to sharing the cookies it’s my neighbours who don’t have ovens.
What size scooper did you buy?
How many calories for 1 cookie?