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
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
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- In a small mixing bowl; combine dry ingredients.
- In a large mixing bowl; combine butter, cream cheese, and sugar.
- Add egg, vanilla, and banana; mix well.
- Add dry ingredients and mix just until combined.
- Hand stir in oats and chocolate chips.
- Using a large cookie scoop, drop onto sprayed cookie sheet.
- Bake 10-12 minutes until lightly golden and set.
- 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!
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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
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Joy @ Baking-Joy says
These look lovely, I’m always looking for new recipes to use up the overripe bananas 🙂
Ruthie says
Hi Joy 🙂 You’ll just love these cookies… I seriously ate have the batch myself (yes, I just publicly admitted that!) YUM! xoxo~ Ruthie
Winnie says
These are great looking cookies, and I love the recipe/
Saving it as I’d like to try 🙂
Ruthie says
Thanks Winnie… they’re fabulous! You must give them a try 🙂 Hope you have a great day! xoxo~ Ruthie
Dorothy @ Crazy for Crust says
Oh my gosh, I love these cookies! All of those things are absolutely fantastic together!
Ruthie says
Thanks Dorothy! They are pretty fabulous 🙂 Thanks for stopping by… I hope you have a nice weekend. xoxo~ Ruthie
Elizabeth @ SugarHero.com says
These sound awesome! I love any sort of banana cake, bread, or cookie. Plus the banana makes them healthy, right? RIGHT?! 🙂
Ruthie says
For sure they fall on the healthier side of cookies! AND you’ll totally LOVE them 🙂 Thanks for the fun comment… xoxo~ Ruthie