At our house we love banana’s- in fact I have to keep them stocked up just like milk or my kids think it’s time to go to the store!

BUT, every once in awhile… some of our banana’s get a little too ripe.

I like to save the over-ripe ones to make these Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Banana Cookies!

Yield: 25

Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Banana Cookies

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Prep Time 20 minutes

Cook Time 12 minutes

Total Time 32 minutes

Ingredients

• 2 C flour
• 1 tsp sea salt
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 6 Tbsp butter, softened
• 6 Tbsp neufatchel cream cheese
• 1/2 C granulated sugar
• 1/2 C brown sugar, packed
• 1 egg
• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 C mashed overripe banana, approx 1
• 1 C old fashioned rolled oats
• 1 C milk chocolate chips
• 1 C cinnamon chips

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. In a small mixing bowl; combine dry ingredients.
3. In a large mixing bowl; combine butter, cream cheese, and sugar.
4. Add egg, vanilla, and banana; mix well.
5. Add dry ingredients and mix just until combined.
6. Hand stir in oats and chocolate chips.
7. Using a large cookie scoop, drop onto sprayed cookie sheet.
8. Bake 10-12 minutes until lightly golden and set.
9. Enjoy!

* I adapted and skinnied this cookie recipe from Six Sisters’ Stuff.com 

Chocolate Chip Banana Oatmeal Cookies are the perfect recipe to use up those over-ripe bananas!

I hope you all love these cookies as much as we do… they freeze really well too!

Here are some other yummy recipes from the past little while…

Rosemary Hasselback Potatoes 

Nutella 5 Chip Cookies 

Mexican Cornbread Pie 

I shared this recipe over a the 36th AVENUE last week and so I wanted to make and share it with all of you too!

I hope your Thursday is great- our weather was chilly the past few days but it looks like we are headed back to some warmer days!  YAY!!  Time to get that garden planted 🙂

Happy Cooking,

xoxo~ Ruthie