These Oatmeal Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies are from Heidi in Colorado who says she likes them because “they’re good for kids”. They’re good for adults too, apparently, because I’ve made them several times already for my extended family.
The recipe is from a canister of store brand oatmeal and both Heidi and I have altered it somewhat. I used unsalted butter and added salt and used bittersweet chocolate chips and add toasted pecans. Heidi mentioned that using smaller chocolate chips helped distribute the chocolate better, but instead of buying mini chips, I just cut some of the bittersweet chips up with a chef’s knife.
If you try the recipe, let me know!
Heidi's Oatmeal Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Heidi’s Oatmeal Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies
Author: Cookie Madness
Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Serves: 48
Ingredients
- 12 tablespoons (84 grams) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup (200 grams) brown sugar
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 1/2 cup (200 grams) all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 scant teaspoon salt (optional) – use only if using unsalted butter or shortening
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon (Anna and Heidi both omitted)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 3/4 cup old-fashioned oatmeal
- 1 cup mashed banana (3-4 very ripe bananas)
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup toasted chopped pecans
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- With an electric mixer, beat the butter and sugar. Mix in egg, then add the vanilla and stir well, scraping bowl often. Add the baking soda and salt and beat until well blended, then add the flour and stir until blended. Add the oatmeal and stir well, then fold in mashed banana, chocolate chips and pecans.
- Drop by tablespoons onto parchment lined baking sheets and bake for 11-13 minutes or until cookies appear set. Let cool on wire rack.
Anna says
December 21, 2007 at 12:46 pmHi Erica,
Thanks for the comment! Also, it’s nice to know these cookies work without baking soda. LOL.
Good luck with your goal of making one new thing per week. I have a similar goal, but it involve making 1 new NON-sweet thing per week….like real food. I’m going through all my celebrity chef cookbooks and trying to find interesting dinner recipes we’d actually eat.
….but back to the cookies. Thanks for the comment and good luck with your baking.
P.S. The cookies I baked today with the Eagle Mills flour are very good. You can use any brand of flour.
http://www.cookiemadness.net/?p=1327
Erica says
December 21, 2007 at 12:00 pmHey Anna!
I’ve been reading your blog for almost a year now and I absolutely looovveee it! I’m fourteen years old and I literally check your site right when I come home from school (and throughout the afternoon!) to see what you’ve baked! I’m not much of a baker myself… I had to explain the concept of cookie dough to my mom (I guess she thought it came off of trees or something??) and our only “talent” in baking is decorating cookie cakes (which we love to do but always use premade dough for…). So, when I found out my class was having a party today to mark the beginning of vacation, I was reluctant to offer to bring food in… after all, I didn’t want to make anybody sick! But I’ve been determined to make one of the cookies from off of your blog since I started reading it and my mom and I took a “leap of faith” by choosing this recipe and going to the supermarket to by some flour and butter. The cookies were great (even though we forgot to buy baking soda…whoops…), and my class loved them! They all said they tasted like banana bread but in cookie form, and they smelled really fresh. This was a huge accomplishment for my mom and me… and after hearing how everyone loved what we baked, she said we should make something new every week! Thanks again for keeping life sweet!
Anna says
October 29, 2007 at 8:07 amHi Amy!
The biggest difference was in the texture. These were kind of dense and thick. The max power cookies spread a little more.
Amy says
October 29, 2007 at 7:56 amhow are these different from the Max Power oatmeal banana chocolate chip ones? I tried those last week and loved them–they got rave reviews 🙂
Alicia says
October 28, 2007 at 7:36 pmThese sound good! I may try these, but I think I’ll have to include some cinnamon in mine.
The ghost placemat looks cute. 😀
Carla says
October 28, 2007 at 7:05 pmHey, I have two bananas sitting on my counter right now! I was saving them to make brownies, but maybe I’ll bake these cookies instead. I wonder how white chocolate chips would taste with banana?
Sandra says
October 28, 2007 at 3:29 pmLove the pictures of Fuzz’s Halloween party!!!
rebecca says
October 28, 2007 at 2:17 pmmmm. i’ve put banana and chocolate together in baked goods before, but i don’t believe i’ve ever included oatmeal in that combination. they look and sound delicious!