Banana Oatmeal Cookies!

Name: Banana Oatmeal Cookies
Prep time: 7 min
Cook time: 10 min
Ingredients: 110 g butter (softened); 50 g brown sugar (¼ cup ); 85 g banana (1 medium banana peeled); 1 teaspoon vanilla; 100 g quick cook oats (1 cup); 75 g flour (½ cup ); ½ teaspoon baking powder; 1 teaspoon cinnamon; choc chips (Quantity is up to you ½-1 cup )

I LOVE these banana oatmeal cookies. I developed them as an egg-free cookie recipe, but they have gone on to become one of my favourite oat cookies!

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Three thick oat cookies stacked in a tower next to slices of banana.

Why This Recipe Works

A soft delicious cookie
Low in sugar for a cookie recipe
Loaded with the goodness of oats
Egg free recipe, easy to make wheat and or dairy free as well.

Ingredients you will need

To make my banana oatmeal cookies you will need quick-cook oats, plain flour, butter, brown sugar, baking powder, and vanilla. Chocolate chips are optional, but choc chip banana cookies are delicious!

The ingredients to make banana oatmeal cookies laid out on a counter top with text overlay.

Ingredient Substitutes

Quick Cook Oats: I have not tested this recipe with any substitutes for the oats.
Flour: This recipe will work with gluten-free flour or wholemeal flour as a substitute.
Brown sugar: This recipe will work with any granulated sugar.
Butter: This recipe will work with vegan butter, full-fat fairy-free margarine or coconut oil.
Choc chips: These can be left out if desired.

I am an ambassador for Countdown supermarket, they support my blog by providing ingredients for recipe creation and testing. I used organic macro butter and Australian quick cook oats from their range in this recipe.

Step by step instructions

Below are illustrated step-by-step instructions to make my choc chip banana oat cookies, if you prefer just the written instructions then head straight to the printable recipe card or check out the video below.

Step one: Cream the butter and sugar, I use my stand mixer for this but you can use a handheld beater or a wooden spoon and some elbow grease.

A white ceramic mixing bowl with creamed butter and sugar and a banana broken in half.

Step two: Add the banana and vanilla, my stand mixer beats the banana into the creamed butter and sugar, if you are making these cookies by hand you will need to mash the banana before adding it.

Butter, sugar and banana beaten in a white ceramic mixing bowl.

Step three: Add the flour, oats, baking powder, and cinnamon. Mix until combined, I do this in the stand mixer.

Oats, flour and cinnamon in a mixing bowl ready to be mixed into cookie dough.

Step four: Fold in the chocolate chips.

Choc Chip Oatmeal Cookie Dough in a mixing bowl with a blue spatula.

Optional: This cookie dough is easier to work with if you chill the dough for around 15-20 mins, but it is possible to make the cookies without chilling. If you are using a butter alternative i.e. coconut oil or margarine I would chill the cookie dough.

Step five: Heat your oven to 180 degrees celsius.

Step six: Scoop your cookie dough into 12 even portions, roll into balls, place on a lined baking tray, then flatten them gently with a fork

12 balls of choc chip oatmeal cookie dough on a lined baking tray.

Banana oatmeal cookies ready on a lined baking tray ready to be baked,

Step seven: Bake at 180 degrees celsius for 10 minutes until lightly golden brown on the edges. The cookies will be soft, cool for 5 minutes before removing them from the baking tray.

Enjoy!

A golden baked chocolate chip oatmeal cookie on a brown baking paper lined tray.

Top Tips

Here is how you can make this banana oatmeal cookie recipe perfectly every time!

This recipe makes a deliciously soft thick cookie, the cookie dough can be quite soft to work with, chilling it for 20 minutes before working with it helps, as does damp hands and a damp fork.

These cookies are pretty low in sugar, so I see them as a great lunchbox snack for my kids, easy to eat, filling, and of course delicious!

Banana oatmeal cookies laid out on baking paper, with slices of banana and a scattering of rolled oats and chocolate drops.

A pink bento style lunchbox, packed with a sandwich, pineapple, oatmeal cookie and cucumber slices.

FAQs

How long do banana oatmeal cookies last?

These cookies will last 3-4 days in an airtight container on the bench. They can be frozen as well and will last for 3-4 months in the freezer.

Can I use a banana as an egg replacer in baking?

In a chewy cookie recipe, one ripe mashed banana will replace one egg.

I LOVE making oatmeal cookies for my kids, as I find cookies made with oats give them sustained energy and just help fuel them for longer. I have quite a few oat-based cookies on my website, for little ones my baby cookies and apple sauce cookies are great as they have no added sugar.

For older kids, you can't go past my condensed milk cookies and my lemon cookies, if you are breastfeeding then my lactation cookies could be just the thing!

A banana oatmeal cookie on crinkled baking paper, with slices of banana and a scattering of rolled oats and chocolate drops.

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