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Banana Oatmeal Cookies Recipe

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This Banana Oatmeal Cookies recipe is a favorite in our house. Easy to make, simple ingredients with tons of flavor. Plus, they are healthy enough to eat for breakfast! 

Banana Oatmeal Cookies Recipe

If you had a choice for a treat would you pick cookies or banana bread? For me, it’s the cookie every time. Well, maybe occasionally I might sample a piece of banana bread but I always go back to the cookie. Cookies are my jam. So that’s why when I have overripe bananas I make this Banana Oatmeal Cookies Recipe.

This Banana Oatmeal Cookies Recipe is one of my kids’ favorites. The cookies are moist and chewy and full of flavor. I love them because the banana provides enough sweetness that you don’t have to use very much sugar. In fact, I think they are healthy enough that I sometimes let the kids eat them for breakfast on the weekends. It’s a little self-esteem boost you see, because when you give them cookies for breakfast they think you are the Best.Mom.Ever.

Banana Oatmeal Cookies Recipe

The recipe is really simple and comes together pretty quickly. I can usually get the dough made and the cookies formed in the time it takes the oven to preheat. I also let the kids help. They love flattening the cookies with a fork. Though I don’t recommend this if you are planning to serve the cookies to others. The kid-flattened cookies often get stabbed with a fork a few times to “create designs.”

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Banana Oatmeal Cookies Recipe
 
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Author: Simply Shellie
Ingredients
  • ⅓ Cup butter
  • ⅓ Cup sugar
  • 1 Banana, mashed
  • 1 Egg
  • 1 ⅛ Cup flour
  • ¼ Cup rolled oats
  • ½ Tsp vanilla
  • ½ Tsp cinnamon
  • ½ Tsp baking powder
Instructions
  1. In a bowl cream sugar and butter until light and fluffy.
  2. Add the banana, egg, oats, cinnamon, vanilla and baking powder.
  3. Add the flour and mix until everything is well incorporated.
  4. Chill the dough for 30 minutes in the refrigerator.
  5. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
  6. Form small balls of dough, placing them 2 inches apart. Flat them with the help of a fork.
  7. Take to the oven and bake for 10 minutes or until done.
  8. Remove from the oven and let them cool before eating them
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If you’d like to make them a little more desert-like you can add chocolate chips I usually do about 1/2 a cup of the mini chips. You could also use raisins or dried cranberries. Again, I’d do around 1/2 a cup with more or less depending on your preference. Or go the much healthier route and add a tablespoon of chia seeds.

Another fun idea is to make sandwich cookies. Just spread some peanut butter on the bottom of one of the cookies and then put a second cookie right on top. Makes the cookies a little more filling so you don’t eat quite as many! You could also live it up and use some Nutella instead of peanut butter. Because Nutella + Anything = Perfection.

Cookie Recipes

No matter how you serve them, this Banana Oatmeal Cookies Recipe is a winner. And be sure to check out some of the other yummy cookies I’ve shared or Follow Me on Pinterest!

  1. Chocolate Chip Mint Cookies
  2. Lemon Shortbread Cookies
  3. Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies
  4. Lime Soft Cookies
  5. Classic Lemon Bars

Banana Oatmeal Cookies Recipe

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  1. Ruth says

    August 13, 2017 at 4:04 pm

    This cookie was great. I added a little banana flavor. Since I can’t have sugar I used 2 packets of Stevia and it was very sweet.

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  2. Annie says

    October 11, 2017 at 5:24 pm

    I added Golden Raisin and I must say it’s out of this world delicious.

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    • Shellie says

      October 26, 2017 at 1:26 pm

      Oooh I bet that was good. What a great idea. I’ll have to try it next time I make them!

      Reply

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