These soft and chewy chocolate chip banana bread oatmeal cookies are super easy to whip up and are made with NO butter or eggs. They’re low in added sugar, low in fat, and BIG on banana bread flavour.
I feel like everyone has that one staple food that they always need to have on hand. That one food that they’d be willing to brave a blizzard to go out and buy. That one food they could happily survive off in the event of a zombie apocalypse. And for me, that one food is bananas. Perfectly pre-packaged, no cooking required, full-of-health-benefits bananas. Love those things.
Given my slightly higher than average consumption of them, I’ve fallen into the habit of picking up a bunch or two whenever I’m in the store, even if I still have plenty at home. This way I know that I’ll always have some nice spotty ones on hand, which is especially helpful during the cold winter months when they take forever to ripen and stores like to sell them when they’re still basically neon green. Any extras I might end up with are frozen or turned into cookies.
Okay, that last one isn’t entirely true. I don’t normally make cookies out of bananas, but I do when I get hit by the baking bug at 5 AM only to realize that I don’t have any eggs in my fridge. Womp, womp. I know eggs are a lot of peoples One Food, but evidently they’re not mine.
Luckily, in addition to things like chia, flax, yogurt, oil, pumpkin, and applesauce, bananas can be used to replace eggs in a lot of recipes… and bananas I have in spades. I mean — yes — they make the end result taste banana-y, but I can’t think of how that could ever be a bad thing… especially when chocolate is involved…
Oh.my.word. Can we just talk about how soft and pillowy these cookies are? And how each bite presents you with the perfect combination that is bananas and chocolate? These cookies legit taste like a slice of banana bread, and their texture is somewhere in between a cookie and a quick bread — a little cakey, but still wonderfully chewy.
They also aren’t overly sweet and only contain 1/4 cup of sugar for the whole recipe… which is a good thing considering I polished off the entire batch in just under two days. On my own. Mmm hmm. I blame a weekend of snowboarding and a few days of study-induced munchies, but by the time you read this, these cookies are no more. Well, not unless you want to get into specifics about the whole digestion, absorption, and elimination process… which I’d rather not do.
Instead, I’d like to remember them as they were when they were whole. Soft. Chewy. Banana-y. Egg-free. Dairy-free. Healthy. Easy. And delicious.
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Vegan Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Oatmeal Cookies
- Total Time: 24 mins
- Yield: 12 cookies 1x
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup (90 g) whole wheat flour
- 1/2 cup (40 g) rolled oats
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 Tbsp (15 ml) coconut oil, melted
- 1 medium-sized ripe banana, mashed (100 g or 1/2 cup)
- 1/4 cup (50 g) brown sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup (60 g) vegan chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350ºF (176ºC) and line a large baking sheet with parchment paper or a non-stick baking mat. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, oats, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
- In a medium-sized mixing bowl, whisk together coconut oil, banana, sugar, and vanilla.
- Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients, mixing until just combined. Do not overmix. Fold in chocolate chips.
- Using a rounded tablespoon, drop dough onto prepared baking sheets, and flatten them slightly.
- Bake 12-14 minutes, or until edges begin to turn golden brown.
- Remove from oven and let cool for 5 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack to cool completely. Store cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to a week.
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 14 mins
Looking for more vegan cookie recipes? Try one of these!
Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
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These look absolutely divine!
I’m on team banana too 🙂
These look fabulous! I just posted a similar recipe, but without the flour and a few other ingredients. I am going to try your recipe too!!!
I asked my mom which food she would choose for me and she said, “bananas or peanut butter”. So, there’s that. Haha! I am a fan of underbaked, gooey chocolatey cookies. Every time I make banana cookies, they tend to get the more cakey texture but I, personally, LOVE it. There’s nothing better to me than banana bread… except chocolate chip cookies. And you my blogging buddy just created my perfect match 😀 😀 😀
I CANNOT start my day without a banana with my breakfast. And I often have them as part of snacks too. So I’m with you on the banana love. Long name for these cookies, huh? But they sound just delish! 🙂
😆 The name is ridiculous, eh? But I honestly couldn’t figure out a way to shorten it without taking away some valuable piece of info 😉
I start to panic when I run low on anything. I don’t like it one bit so I’ve almost always got a back up, and yet I hate clutter. Go figure. I’m weird. We knew that though.
These cookies sound incredible, and I just so happen to have a bunch of bananas on my counter right now. Surely, I can let one or two ripen until the weekend when I can make these little dreamboats.
I prefer melt-in-your-mouth, chewy cookies for SURE. These look yummy! They’d be a great little treat for Hunter too!
Currently I need my dose of 2 bananas per day! The obssession is real 😉 However, I think that my One Food are dates!
Definitely a good choice! I can’t get enough of those either. Have you ever tried combining bananas and dates in a smoothie? Un.REAL.
I just made them! I used melted butter instead of the coconut oil, but they turned out great. I’ve eaten about 5 of them. I guess I should slow down so that the kids have some to eat when they get home from school.
😆 You could always whip up another batch and pretend like nothing happened 😉 But I’m glad you liked them, Suzy! Thanks for letting me know!
These look sooo good. It’s like all my favorite ingredients in one cookie!
You just combined 2 of my favorite things in life, BRAVO! Next contender for Buzzfeed?! Thanks for sharing 🙂
I have a batch of these in my oven…right now!! Even the batter was good! LOL 🙂
Bananas are a staple in our house, too! I love making banana ice cream with the frozen bananas. Um…I have ALL of these ingredients on-hand!! Looks like I’ll be making these, soon 🙂
Woohoo! Hope you like them, Jess 🙂
Mmm yum. I love oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, especially vegan ones. Love that the recipe only makes 12…because I would probably eat at least half in one go
Love love love!!! I adore your vegan recipes and am for sure making this! I have been on a baking kick and needed some more recipes to try out!
And since I just went to the Doctor and am on two more weeks with this stupid cast on haha I have more free time to bake;)
They look like they would be super chewy. You always have such good looking recipes!
These look soft and yes…MOIST. So good.
You mean damp? Or clammy? Or soggy? Or sticky? 😆
I just made banana oat cookies but WHYYYY did I not add chocolate chips?! Kicking myself. Anyway, I’m totally with you. I always have bananas on my counter and if they’re not on the counter I know I have them tucked away in the freezer. I hate the neon green bananas. Last night at the store a woman asked a store associate if they had non-spotted bananas and I wanted to slap her with one because clearly spotted is THE best.
These look awesome.
I must admit I’m one of the eggs people!! Totally predictable… if I didn’t go eggs I’d say OATMEAL is my one food backup to huevos!
Right now I am just thinking about how good this would make my house smell.
And now I’m hungry.
One of the best side effects of reading blogs, eh? 😛
It’s hard for me to choose one food but bananas are definitely up there. I buy then every week and always have some leftover. Yet another reason I wish I lived in Hawaii, sigh.
These cookies look fabulous! Plus the way you describe them makes them look even better. Pinned! 🙂
I love how these have a good mix of “normal” ingredients (.i.e. whole wheat flour + sugar), but are balanced out by coconut oil, bananas, etc. ^ Amanda has the right idea – as soon as I can make these, they are happening for breakfast!
Helloooooo cookies for breakfast! I think I could justify eating these bad boys alongside a mug of coffee. Heck, I’d eat cookies for breakfast anyway but I have a hunch I’d like myself better if I chose these ones instead. Thanks for the recipe, Amanda!
Well I do believe that these could make me love chocolate chips in my cookies.
Bananas are most definitely my “one food.” My mom knows me well enough to pick up a couple batches for me, even if we have some at home— for the same exact reason as yours. Spotty bananas are the door to so many delicious things 🙂
I had to do a double take after reading your first sentence. Giiiirl, you crazy 😛
Oh yum! I think I’ll make these today. 1/2 with blueberries for Ethan and 1/2 with chocolate chips for Mama!
I want to eat these for breakfast.
No lie: I was thinking about how bananas were one of my “panic if I’m running low so most of the time overbuying” food -just- an hour or so ago. And apples. Almond butter. Chickpeas. Chocolate (!).
You completely lost my focus with that third picture. How much longer until I get home???! Chocolate, bananas and oats are a match made in heaven. Chewy, non-cakey heaven here. I could get on board with that.
You know what I think? We’d either be perfect roommates because we basically love the same foods. Or horrible ones because we’d constantly be stealing each other’s stash 😆
Yes please! I loooove banana bread but it has to have chocolate chips in it so basically these cookies are perfection.
My one food is probably OATS. I need to have dry oats in my cupboard at all times. But then I also need almond milk and berries…. So I have THREE foods! Haha!
YUM. I love easy recipes like this. I love cakier AND melt in your mouth cookies- I don’t discriminate. 🙂
I love me some cookies – but, I, too, don’t like cookies – or desserts in general, overly sweet – so these would be my cup of tea – or, even great with a cup of tea – saw what I did there?! 🙂
With that ingredient list these are healthy – so that means cookies for breakfast – yes – cookieS not cookie! Happy Wednesday Lovely!
As always these look delicious! I’m not creative at thinking of something else to use when I’m out of an ingredient. I’d just be like well guess I’m not baking cookies today!
I like a melt in your mouth cookie but I also like my cookies thick and chewy, cakelike a bit. I pass right over a crisp and thin crunchy cookie. Those are not for me, and yes, I am really particular.
No I hear that. I’m not a fan of those either. Except for those lacey cookies. Those are pretty good.
My one food is Greek Yogurt… I get a little anxious if I don’t have it in the fridge. It’s just perfect for a snack, dessert, breakfast, extra protein… it’s the reason I could never go vegan!
Well, these just look nomtastic.
Best.word.ever <3
These look delicious! I love the combo of banana with chocolate. Thanks for the recipe!
These look to die for!! My two favorites put together. Reminds me that I need to do some banana baking again!
This recipe looks amazing!! I can’t wait to try it. And I’m pretty sure it’s something my boyfriend would like too (and he is not really into healthy stuff if you know what I mean^^)
My favorite cookies are soft and chewy, so these seem perfect!
My one food is definitely oatmeal, but there are a few that I consider essentials: coffee (not a food but still), Greek yogurt or Skyr, almond butter (must have at least 3 jars at all times), chocolate and salmon.
Total Yum!
And I’m so with you in replacing eggs with banana’s. 🙂
I only recently started experimenting with also using pumpkin to replace eggs, what a revelation. I would have never thought……
Thanks, Neil! Pumpkin is another awesome one! Especially with muffins. And I think one of my favourite things about vegan baking is all the experimentation that goes into it. The result is always a surprise 😉
Oh my gosh, perfect timing. I have one lonely ripe banana in my kitchen that I won’t eat because I don’t like to eat bananas past a certain point. Now to hope I have some chocolate chips lying around!
My one food is actually a few things… eggs, oatmeal, and greek yogurt. I panic when any of those items start to dwindle…
Saw the instagram pictures yesterday and was majorly drooling! Looks like an easy almond flour sub for me too 🙂
same here. she’s such a tease. Okay i’d do that too! haha. Love the banana bread combo. genius girl!
I totally forgot about almond flour! I bet they’d come out amazing that way.
Can you use butter instead of coconut oil?
You could, Charlotte, but then they would no longer be vegan. If that’s okay, then use 1 Tbsp of melted butter.