Banana Oat Chocolate Chip Cookies

These soft banana oat chocolate chip cookies are moist, chewy, and lightly sweetened with ripe banana, brown sugar, and applesauce. Rolled oats add texture, while semi-sweet chocolate chips make them feel like a classic homemade cookie.
This recipe is american style, dessert, scaled for 24 servings, with 20 min prep and 12 min cook.
Prep: 20 min · Cook: 12 min · Total: 32 min · Serves: 24
Quick cooking notes
- Core ingredients include all-purpose flour, rolled oats, baking soda, salt.
- Follow all 10 steps in order for the intended texture and doneness.
- Ingredient quantities listed below are for 24 servings.
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 0.75 tsp baking soda
- 0.5 tsp salt
- 0.5 cup unsalted butter (softened)
- 0.25 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 0.5 cup light brown sugar (packed)
- 0.25 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 large ripe banana (mashed)
- 1.5 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F and position a rack in the center of the oven.
- Line two baking sheets with parchment paper or lightly coat them with cooking spray.
- Whisk together the flour, rolled oats, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl.
- Beat the softened butter, applesauce, brown sugar, and granulated sugar in a large bowl until creamy and well combined.
- Beat in the egg, mashed banana, and vanilla extract until smooth.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and stir just until a soft dough forms.
- Fold in the semi-sweet chocolate chips until evenly distributed.
- Drop rounded tablespoons of dough onto the prepared baking sheets, spacing them about 2 inches apart.
- Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, rotating the baking sheets halfway through, until the cookies are lightly golden and set around the edges.
- Cool the cookies on the baking sheets for 2 minutes, then transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely.
Nutrition (per serving)
- Calories: 136
- Protein: 2 g
- Fat: 7 g
- Carbohydrates: 18 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Sugar: 10 g
- Sodium: 92 mg
Nutrition values are estimates based on stored ingredient totals and serving size.
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