If things just aren’t going your way, these cookies will cheer you right up! AND… You won’t have to feel bad about ruining your diet just because you need a cookie! 
I found this recipe online quite some time ago and modified it to suit my needs. I was literally dying for a cookie, but didn’t want something loaded with butter, sugar, and flour. These are made with bananas, oatmeal, canola oil, and chocolate chips. Good, right?!
There’s nothing like the smell of chocolate chip cookies baking in your oven.
I’d describe these as more of a soft cookie. They’d be great for breakfast with a glass of ice cold milk.
For a variation, you could omit the chocolate chips and add raisins and cinnamon if you like. I also loooove these with chopped walnuts. My mom doesn’t care for bananas and wants to try this recipe with applesauce. I haven’t yet, but I bet they’d turn out great! Either way, I think these cookies are open to a lot of experimenting.
Here’s the story about why I needed these cookies today…
It’s been about a month since I’ve actually cooked anything. We’ve been doing some updates in our super outdated kitchen, and it took way longer than we expected. Also, I’ve had a major mental block and haven’t been able to come up with any recipe ideas, so Bill came up with some for me.
On Monday I made Pad Thai. Bill found me a recipe, but it wasn’t a very good one (eek). Then today, he had planned for me to make a chicken curry with NO recipe. It was my first time ever trying it, and it was pretty much an epic fail. I’m not sure what I was thinking.
Here’s a pic…
It wasn’t gross by any means but definitely not “blog worthy”.
If you have a good homemade (healthy-ish) chicken curry recipe please let me know! I can’t wait to try again.
But for now… I’ll just eat these cookies!
Rachael xoxo
- 3 ripe bananas
- ⅓ cup canola oil
- 2 cups uncooked quick-cooking oats
- ½ cup chocolate chips
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Cooking spray
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large mixing bowl, mash bananas with a fork until no longer lumpy. If bananas aren’t very ripe, a hand mixer may be used. Stir in oil, oats, chocolate chips, and vanilla.
- Lightly grease a cookie sheet.
- For each cookie, spoon about 2 tablespoons of cookie mixture (or more depending on how big you want the cookie) onto the cookie sheet. Bake for 15-20 minutes. Move cookies to a wire rack to cool.
- Makes about 24 cookies.
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This was a great batch. Describing them as a little cakey is correct. I love the chocolate bananna combination.
Glad you liked them!
You had me at healthy. Actually you had me at cookie; healthy made me stick around
These look awesome!
Thanks Kristen! You gotta try them!
I get the feeling I could live off these cookies! They look great!
Thanks Riley, I think a person could totally live off of these!
Thank you so much for this recipe! I have been looking for a healthy recipe for the longest time, to help my sweet tooth. Made them with raisins and cinnamon and the turned out so great! Once again thank you, thank you, thank you!
Thanks for letting me know, Mildred! I’m happy you liked them!
Just made your cookies!
I did make some changes, I used a multi grain “oatmeal”, coconut oil, and raisins instead of chocolate, as well as added 1/3 cup of Chai seeds. Love them, thanks for the inspiration.
Your changes sound great Kellysue!! I can’t wait to try them!
Just stopped by to check out your blog, and you’ve already made a fan out of me! I fully support your idea to heal as much as possible through foods and natural healthy choices. I’ll probably be trying numerous recipes, but this one will be the first. It seems simple, healthy, and delicious. Plus, I hate cooking/baking with eggs, so this is the perfect cookie for me. Can’t wait to try it.
Thanks for coming by, Kristen! I hope you like the cookies, and I look forward to hearing from you again soon! xo
Oh my goodness! I googled healthy oatmeal banana cookies and this is what I found! They were SO yummy!! My two daughters and my little daycare kids LOVED them!! Thanks so much for this awesome recipe!!
You’re very welcome, Destiny. I’m so glad they were a hit! I think this is such a great snack for kiddos!
Do u think this can work the same with vegetable oil or olive oil. Unfortunately I don’t have any canola oil right now.
Yes, definitely use either one of those oils. I’ve never made the cookies with anything other than canola oil, but in a pinch I would choose olive oil. Although it has more of a “flavor” to it than vegetable oil, it’s the healthier option. Either oil shouldn’t compromise the texture in any way though. Please let me know how you like the cookies!! I could really go for a few right now!