Perfectly Textured Banana Cookies
Meet your new favorite cookie! These banana cookies are packed full of banana flavor, sprinkled with chocolate chips and walnuts, and baked to golden brown perfection. My other banana recipes are pretty popular around here (I’m looking at you, banana muffins and banana bread), and I have a feeling this recipe will be too.
Why You’ll Love My Recipe:
The cookies come out soft and chewy, NOT cakey (we have banana cake if you’re looking to fix a cake craving!)! Comes together easily by hand–no mixer needed.It’s perfect for using up those last few brown bananas lingering at the bottom of your fruit basket. Can handle add-ins like chocolate chips and nuts, but will still bake up just fine without them.The dough can be made up to 24 hours in advance.
What You Need
I wanted these banana cookies to be a chewy and flavorful twist on chocolate chip cookies. Here are a few ingredients that will help us achieve that:
Very ripe bananas. If there’s one piece of advice I can give you for this recipe, it’s to make sure your bananas are about as old (or ripe) as possible. Not only are less ripe bananas more firm, but they are also less sweet and don’t have as strong of a flavor.Melted butter. Melted butter enriches the entire flavor of the cookie, but it also encourages some spreading (as opposed to creaming cool butter with sugar, which would make them fluffier and cakier).Brown sugar. I like to use a 50/50 blend of light and dark brown sugar. All light will work, but I’ve found that all dark brown sugar tends to be too rich and doesn’t balance quite as well with the banana flavor. Egg yolk. These banana cookies were inspired by my equally chewy pumpkin cookies. Like in that recipe, we’ll be using an egg yolk (no white!) for the perfect chewy texture.
SAM’S TIP: For pretty cookie tops, I like to reserve a few chocolate chips (about ¼ cup or so) for pressing into the cookies after they’ve come out of the oven. Simply let the cookies cool for a minute or two, then randomly (and gently!) nestle a few chips right in the top. It makes a noticeable difference! Remember, this is just an overview of the ingredients I used and why. For the full recipe please scroll down to the bottom of the post!
How to Make Banana Cookies
SAM’S TIP: For neater, more uniform cookies, roll the dough into smooth balls between your palms before baking. You may find the dough to be a bit sticky, but this is normal. Enjoy! Let’s bake together! I’ll be walking you through all the steps in my written recipe and video below! If you try this recipe, be sure to tag me on Instagram, and you can also find me on YouTube and Facebook
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