These homemade Banana Choc Chip Cookies are a lovely soft addition to the kid’s lunchbox and make for a great way to use up some old bananas sitting in the fruit bowl.
Banana Choc Chip Cookies
Serves: 40
Prep Time | Cook Time | Total Time |
10 mins | 12 mins | 22 mins |
Ingredients
- 180g butter, softened
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups plain flour
- 1/2 teaspoon bicarb soda
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 3 bananas, mashed
- 1 cup dark chocolate chips
- 2 cups rolled oats
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 160°C, fan forced.
- Line baking trays with baking paper or a silicone mat.
- Beat butter and sugar in an electric mixer for 5 minutes until light and fluffy.
- Add eggs and vanilla, mix until combined.
- Sift the plain flour, bicarb and cinnamon into bowl.
- Add bananas, oats and choc chips, mix until combined.
- Place spoonfuls (tablespoon size) mixture onto baking trays, allow room for cookies to spread.
- Bake in oven for 10-12 minutes or until golden.
- Rest on pan for 5 minutes, turn onto a wire rack to cool completely.
By Kat – The Organised Housewife
Thank you to reader Dawn for converting this recipe to Thermomix, I am so grateful for her taking the time to do this and share with us.
Banana Choc Chip Cookies
Serves: 30-40
Prep Time | Cook Time | Total Time |
10 mins | 12 mins | 22 mins |
Ingredients
- 180g butter, softened
- 130g brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 225g plain flour
- 1/2 teaspoon bicarb soda
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 3 bananas, mashed
- 160g dark chocolate chips
- 180g rolled oats
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 160°C, fan forced.
- Line baking trays with baking paper or a silicone mat.
- Add butter and sugar to thermomix bowl – 15 sec / speed 10.
- Add eggs and vanilla – 10 sec / speed 4.
- Pinch the banana into the bowl (mashing it in your fingers) in pieces, add flour, bicarb, cinnamon – 20 sec / speed 4.
- Add choc chips and oats – 20 seconds / reverse / speed 3.
- Place spoonfuls (tablespoon size) mixture onto baking trays, allow room for cookies to spread.
- Bake in oven for 10-12 minutes or until golden.
- Rest on pan for 5 minutes, turn onto a wire rack to cool completely.
By Kat – The Organised Housewife
27 comments
Do I add the choc chips and oats after the bananas? The batter smells absolutely divine even before adding the bananas… 🙂
Ooh sorry Erin, yes, add the oats and choc chips with the banana, I’ll change the recipe now. Yes the batter was tasty too!!
Absolutely delicious. My 4yo can’t get enough of them. Thanks for the recipe…
Have some over ripe bananas on the bench right now – I’ll be giving this as go soon! Thanks Katrina
Great way to use them up Melanie, hope you enjoy
they sound yummy I love your 100 batch freezable cooking dough I will be giving these a go as well 🙂
Shell
http://spectacularkidsminiplayscapes.blogspot.com.au/
I love the 100 batch of cookies too, so delicious and love that I can make so many at once to freeze. Hope your family like these too x
my hubby and I loved these cookies but I ended up baking the second batch in mini muffin trays as found the consistency of the cookies very much like banana bread. I was hoping to use these in lunch box but they were so good that hubby finished them up for dessert
that’s a clever idea Brea, yes it was a very soft cookie, ooh so yummy!
Hi Katrina,
Just have some cookies in the oven now. Did you realise that there is a small error in the recipe? You forgot to add the rolled oats and choc chips? Also is it 1 egg or 2. You’ve said one in the list of ingredients but then used eggS in the instructions?? I ended up using two. We’ll see how they go when they come out?
Also are they suitable for the freezer?
Thanks.
Made these yesterday and that’s how long they lasted… not even 24 hours. Mind you I donated quite a few to the pre primary teachers.
Hi Katrina, love ur site. Cookies look great. I would also like to know what is the recipe in the picture beside the cookies
Hi Adele, They are so yummy those cookies! The recipe beside that is Zucchini Slice. Here is the link for you: https://theorganisedhousewife.com.au/meal-planning/meal-planning-sunday-zucchini-slice/
Hi Katrina,
I want to make these for school, but was informed by one of my children there are two children in class with a severe egg allergy. Any alternates around the egg/s?
Thank you! 🙂
Hi Cat, ooh no that would make packing lunches difficult, you may find this post helpful, ‘Egg free recipes’: https://theorganisedhousewife.com.au/recipes/egg-free/egg-free-recipes/
Mmmm, just made a batch of these, gluten free! (I’m a coeliac) I simply subbed gluten free flour, and replaced the oats with quinoa flakes, as they are a moist cookie, it worked really well as they’re crunchy outside, soft inside, Delish! Thanks for the recipe!
That is wonderful Leanne, thank you so much for helping to make this a gluten free recipe, many ask how to make my recipes gluten free and I am unsure so I appreciate this 😉
Can these be frozen once baked?
My 5yo son and I just made these as a school holiday activity and it was also my first time sharing my kitchen with him. We had a ball! Very easy recipe to get kids involved in and they are DELICIOUS. Our house smells amazing, so much so that our neighbours decided to pop in from the smell wafting over the fence. Master 5 has decided they will be a lunchbox regular. Thank you so much 🙂
P.S. We also used extremely overripe bananas, so it made the biscuits extra moist.
Yay, cooking with the kids is so much fun and also creates some wonderful memories for them. Glad you enjoyed the recipe.
Great recipe – I used my Thermomix. For the Thermies out there:
Step 3: 130gm brown sugar 15 sec sp10. Add butter 20sec sp4
Step 4: 10 sec sp4
Step 5: Pinch the banana into the bowl (mashing it in your fingers) in pieces, 225gm plain flour, bicarb, cinn, 20sec sp4
Step 6: 160gm choc chips, 180gms oats. Reverse 20sec sp3
You are a superstar Dawn, thank you so very much, I am so grateful for you taking the time to do this and share with us, I have just added it into the post if you want to print it off 🙂
Yummy cookies but you seem to be missing the butter in the thermomix method. I didn’t realise until they were baking. Still nice though ?
Did anyone else notice that the butter was omitted from the method. It listed in the ingredients. I had just finished step 3 and then realised I had a pile of butter on the bench. I assume this should have been added with the sugar and egg at the beginning but it was too late. I added it anyway but cookies did not work out. A waste of ingredients. Please amend recipe.
Hi Fiona, so sorry about this! have amended the recipe now, thank you for bringing it to my attention
Hi, can you freeze these?
Hi Karen (a bit late now but useful for anyone else wondering),
I have made these (and they are delicious – just like a banana muffin) and I froze them. Just took a couple out at a time and popped them in the lunchbox or bag and they defrosted perfectly!