Soft and moist banana chocolate chip cookies taste like bite-sized banana bread with chocolate pieces. Great for a snack or dessert, these cookies are easy to make and ready in little time.
This one-bowl cookie recipe doesn’t require chilling time, so the cookies are ready to eat in less than 30 minutes. Banana cookies are a perfect way to use over-ripe bananas.
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Ingredients For Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies
To make this cookie recipe, these are the ingredients needed:
- Banana. Only one small ripe banana is needed for this recipe.
- Brown sugar.
- Vegetable oil. Replace with melted butter for a richer cookie.
- Egg.
- Vanilla extract.
- Bourbon. This is optional and can be replaced with milk.
- Cinnamon.
- Nutmeg.
- Baking soda.
- Sea salt.
- All-purpose flour.
- Chocolate chips.
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Why Add Bourbon to Banana Cookies?
Adding a little bourbon to any recipe that has bananas helps to bring out the banana flavour. It also helps keep the cookies moist.
The bourbon in this recipe is optional and can be omitted and replaced with milk.
Another option is to replace the bourbon with Brandy.
Why Use Over-ripe Bananas?
When bananas start to turn black, they get sweeter. The darker the banana, the sweeter it becomes.
Overripe bananas also break down more easily and act as a liquid in the cookie dough, adding moisture.
Serving Banana Cookies
These cookies make a great dessert or snack. The banana flavour combined with the chocolate chips makes these cookies a treat that almost everyone enjoys.
We are even guilty of eating these cookies at breakfast because they taste like banana bread.
Banana chocolate chip cookies are also great to serve at Christmas in dessert baskets. We add them to our cookie plates, which we share with friends and family.
Storing Cookies
Store these cookies at room temperature in an air-tight container for up to five days.
The cookies can also be frozen for up to three months.
Looking for another great banana recipe? Try our Chocolate Chip Banana Bread.
Have you tried this recipe? Leave a comment to let us know.
Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 Tbsp bourbon, or milk
- 1 small banana, mashed, about ¼ cup
- 2 Tbsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp nutmeg
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp sea salt
- 1¾ cups all-purpose flour
- ¾ cups chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350℉ and line a cookie pan with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl, beat together vegetable oil and brown sugar.
- Beat in egg, vanilla, bourbon, and banana, until smooth
- Stir in cinnamon, nutmeg, baking soda, and salt.
- Add flour and stir until just combined.
- Fold in chocolate chips.
- Drop cookie dough by spoonfuls onto prepared pan.
- Bake for 12-15 minutes or until cookies are browned on the edge and centers are still slightly wet.
- Cool on the pan for 2-3 minues, then transfer to cooling rack.
- Store cooled cookies in an air-tight container for up to 5 days.
