Healthy Banana Oatmeal Cookies
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These Banana Oatmeal Cookies are healthy and delicious with a moist and chewy texture! This easy cookie recipe uses just 3 ingredients: ripe bananas, oats and chocolate chips. Perfect for snacking or even breakfast!
Banana oatmeal cookies are one of my all-time favorite treats. They’re a guilt-free snack or breakfast idea that’s vegan and gluten-free with no dairy or refined sugar! These 3 ingredient cookies are amazingly simple while steering clear of the butter, sugar, flour and eggs found in most cookie recipes.
The best part? They’re incredibly easy to make in just 20 minutes and are so soft coming out of the oven. Plus, you get amazing aromas wafting out of your oven while they bake!
These healthy 3-ingredient cookies have no flour, no butter, no eggs and no sugar! Here’s what you’ll need for this recipe:
- Bananas: we used large, overripe bananas (the common yellow variety)
- Oatmeal: you can use large old-fashioned oats or quick oats. Avoid instant oats, which are too powdery. For gluten-free cookies, be sure to use gluten free oats.
- Chocolate chips: semisweet chips work well; use dark chocolate chips to make it vegan and sugar-free chocolate chips for sugar free cookies.
Note that these cookies are flourless! The mashed bananas work instead to bind together the other ingredients.
The banana oat combo is considered to have a range of health benefits. Oats and bananas both contain soluble and insoluble fiber for digestive health, while bananas provide potassium, magnesium, folate and other vitamins and minerals.
- This is a great way to use up ripe bananas. Look for bananas with brown spots that haven’t turned completely brown. The riper the banana, the sweeter the cookie!
- The batter should have the same consistency as regular cookie batter. If it seems wet, simply add a few more tablespoons of oats to absorb the excess moisture.
- Always flatten the cookies to about a ½ inch thick on the baking sheet before baking, as they don’t spread out like other cookies.
Breakfast cookies are a convenient and energy-boosting start to the day, as long as they’re healthy cookies like these ones. . Serve them with some fruit and yogurt for a healthy breakfast, or simply grab and go!
Yes, banana cookies freeze well. Just let them cool completely and place in an airtight container with parchment or wax paper in between the layers to prevent sticking. To thaw, remove the cookies from the container to prevent them from becoming soggy.
Healthy Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 large bananas, ripe*
- 1 1/2 cup old-fashioned oats, large oats
- 2/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips, see note
Instructions
- Set the oven rack to the upper-middle position. Then preheat the oven to 350°F (177°C).
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a nonstick baking mat and set aside.
- Peel the bananas and place on a large plate. Using a fork, mash them until smooth with no more lumps.
- Add the oats and mashed bananas to a medium-size bowl and mix well. If the mixture seems too wet, mix in a few more tablespoons of oats.
- Add the chocolate chips and stir to combine.
- Scoop one tablespoon of batter onto the baking sheet and flatten it to about ½-inch (12 mm) thick with your fingertips. Repeat for the rest of the batter, spacing the cookies an inch apart.
- Bake for 15 – 20 minutes until puffy.
- Remove from oven. Let the cookies cool for 5-10 minutes and then use a rigid spatula to remove to a wire rack to cool completely.
Notes
- * Look for ripe bananas with brown spots. If they’ve turned completely brown on the inside, they’re too ripe.
- Make it gluten-free: simply use gluten-free oats to avoid any risk of contamination from wheat.
- Make it sugar-free: simply use sugar-free chocolate chips instead of regular semisweet chocolate chips.
- Storage: Let the cookies cool completely and store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 2 days. You can also freeze for up to 3 months in an airtight container with layers of parchment or wax paper in between to prevent sticking.
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Editor note: Originally published May 17, 2017 and updated Nov 6, 2019
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I love these cookies! Could you add pumpkin to them? Or do you have a similar recipe for pumpkin oatmeal cookies? I can only certain foods right now due to a health issue and these cookies work so well.
Hi Abby, Thanks for your feedback! I have not tried adding pumpkin to them and unfortunately do not have a similar recipe … yet. But will go to work on it. Glad you enjoyed and thanks again.
Delicious
I love how simple these cookies are.
I own a small Cafe and trying to incorporate more sugar free options and these cookies are the most popular with my customers.
I love them myself because now I can snack on them because I have to quit eating sugar myself.
Thank you for this delicious recipe.
Can you use banana that have been in the freezer??
Hi Nell, Thanks for your question. There’s a wide variation in the condition of frozen bananas, i.e. some are brown and some have still deteriorated. Generally, I recommend using fresh bananas for the best flavor in this recipe. Good luck!
I just made the banana, oatmeal and chocolate chip cookies. I definitely will make them often. So easy to make, and so delicious. My hubby wants me to make more. Thank you for this great recipe. I would send you a picture, but the plate is empty.
Hi Alma, Thanks for your comment and glad you liked them! No worries about the photo, the same thing happens to me lol
Have you added peanut butter? If so, how much?
Hi Becky, Thanks for your question. I haven’t made these with peanut butter, so can’t really say. A few tablespoons of creamy should work if you can mix it in properly. Let me know if you try it!
These recipe is awesome, seriously! It took me minutes to put it together, they baked great and they’re very tasty! I was worried about them staying together, but they are perfect. Will definitely be making these for my daughter again!!
Hi Sarah, Thanks for your comment and so glad to hear that! They’re definitely a great option for kids… and adults
I have steel cut oats , would they be too hard to work in this recipe?
Hi Anne, Thanks for your question and yes, steel cut oats are too tough. Maybe save them for oatmeal instead 🙂
Interesting. I like them. I made half with extra dark chocolate chips (63% cacao) and half with milk chocolate chips.
Hi David, Thanks for your feedback and glad you enjoyed them. Like your half-and-half idea!
I have added walnuts to these, and they remind me of banana nut bread.
Hi Michelle, LOL it’s so true, what a great idea. Thanks for your comment! 🙂
LOVE these cookies!
Thanks for your review and so glad you like them! 🙂
I had 7 black bananas thanks to those fickle kids. We were burnt out on banana bread. I made this with 7bananas, 5cups old fashioned, 1 cup mini chocolate chips, 1 cup pecans rough chop and 2 healthy spoonfuls of ground flaxseed. Baked at 350 for 15min. These don’t spread so Make sure you shape them the way you want before baking. They’re chewy and satisfying.
Taste is good. Mine turned out a bit gummy/rubbery. Did I just not bake them long enough or is that how they typically turn out?
Hi Rebecca, Thanks for your comment and glad you like them. It happens sometimes depending on the ingredients/brands used. Try mashing the banana more thoroughly and maybe using slightly less oats. 😉
hey can i use your pictures in my school magazine?
Hi Neda, Thanks for asking. If you link back to the source post from your school, you may use the photo.
Can these be refrigerated if not eaten immediately?
Hi Megan, Yes absolutely can be stored at room temp or refrigerated 🙂
How long could you keep these out of the fridge, before they go bad?
Hi Mike, Thanks for your review. They’ll last 1-2 days depending on humidity. Enjoy!
Can you tell me how many cookies equals 1 serving please I’m diabetic it says 20g carbs per serving but doesn’t say how many cookies equals 1 serving
Hi David, Thanks for your review. It depends on how big you make the cookies, typically two cookies per serving. Hope that helps 🙂
Love them but i add a spoon full of nutella to mine instead of the chocolate chips so much better this way
Thanks Susie, sounds great 🙂
Hey how many calories is one of the cookies without chocolate?
excellent recipe! I recently went vegan and these killed my sweet cravings 🙂
Hi Hannah, Thanks for your review and so glad you enjoyed them!
Did you use old fashioned or quick oats?
Hi Koral, Thanks for your question. Either will work, but I prefer quick oats in this recipe for a softer texture.
These were great! Seriously hit my sweet tooth without all the unnecessary fillers. And best of all, fast and simple. Thanks !!
Hey Georgia, Thanks for your review and so glad you enjoyed them! 🙂
Do you have any other recipes That are healthy and diabetic friendly. They are in the oven and I can not wait to taste these.
Hi Dawn, Thanks for your comment. Here are a few diabetic friendly recipes: https://tipbuzz.com/avocado-pasta/ https://tipbuzz.com/ceviche-cups/ and we’ll make a note to do more for you 🙂
I love this recipe. I use at as a base for a lot of different cookies. Use dried cranberries or dried cherries. I also add peanut butter to this recipe.
THESe look great! Can you possibly freeze these?
Thanks Krista, you can freeze them but seal them in a ziplock bag or airtight container 🙂
One of those “never again recipes”. My husband is a human vacuum cleaner”. He said “yuk”!!
Hi Juliet, Sorry to hear that! Everyone has their own taste, and this has been a popular recipe. Maybe try our traditional chocolate chip cookies with butter: https://tipbuzz.com/chocolate-chip-cookie-dough/
I made these 3 ingredient chocolate chip cookies with 2 very ripe bananas and rolled oats and the brand Enjoy dark chocolate chips as they’re gluten, dairy and soy free. I made them for my son and he loved them and so did I! Thank you for this easy recipe. Healthy comfort treats!
Is the serving size one cookie?
One serving is about 2 cookies, it depends slightly on how big you make them 🙂
Well they don’t fill the house with the scent of fresh baked cookies. But, they are healthy tasting. Next time I will use sweeter choc chips. Very easy.
I absolutely LOVE this recipe! Why add all those other unnecessary ingredients that make you feel terrible? This is so easy and delicious! THANK YOU!!!
Thanks so much Maureen!! 🙂