Here’s a soft, sweet bake you’ll love: banana bread cookies—they taste like banana bread but in chewy cookie form.
🍌🍪 Banana Bread Cookies
🧾 Ingredients
- Ripe bananas – 2 medium, mashed
- Flour – 1½ cups
- Sugar (brown or white) – ½ cup
- Butter – ½ cup (softened)
- egg – 1 large
- Baking soda – ½ tsp
- Baking powder – 1 tsp
- Vanilla extract – 1 tsp
- Cinnamon – ½ tsp (optional)
- Salt – pinch
- Chocolate chips or nuts – ½ cup (optional)
👨🍳 How to Make It
1. Prep
- Preheat oven to 180°C (350°F)
- Line baking tray with parchment paper
2. Mix wet ingredients
- Mash bananas
- Mix with butter, egg, sugar, and vanilla
3. Add dry ingredients
- Stir in flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon
- Mix gently (don’t overmix)
4. Add extras
- Fold in chocolate chips or nuts
5. Bake
- Drop spoonfuls onto tray
- Bake 10–12 minutes until edges are golden
🍽️ Serving Ideas
- With milk or tea ☕
- As a quick breakfast snack
- With peanut butter spread
🔥 Tips
- Use very ripe bananas for best sweetness
- Don’t overbake—keeps cookies soft and chewy
- Add oats for a banana-oat cookie version
If you want, I can also make:
- 🍫 Double chocolate banana cookies
- 🥜 Peanut butter banana cookies
- 🥯 Banana bread muffin version
- 🧁 Healthy no-sugar banana cookies
