Banana Oatmeal Cookies - 3 Ingredient Recipe!

Here’s an easy recipe for homemade 3 ingredient banana oatmeal cookies that are super healthy and delicious at the same time!

Healthy banana oatmeal cookies

These chocolate chip banana oatmeal cookies are the perfect healthy snack.

Packed with wholesome oats, mashed ripe banana, and gooey chocolate chips, they will quickly become a new family favorite recipe.

Simply stir everything together, shape into cookies, and devour over and over again. No eggs, no butter, no flour, and just 20 minutes to make from start to finish!

Also try these Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies

Watch the banana oatmeal cookie recipe video, above

Easy 3 ingredient cookies

Who knew something so simple could taste so good???

These 3 ingredient chocolate chip cookies (or 2 ingredient cookies if you omit the chocolate chips) can be vegan, gluten free, oil free, low fat, and refined sugar free.

And yet the oatmeal cookies are so tasty that it’s hard to stop at just one!

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3 Ingredient Banana Oat Cookie Ingredients

Banana oatmeal cookie recipe ingredients

The only ingredients you need for the whole grain cookies are ripe bananas, rolled oats or quick oats, and regular or mini chocolate chips.

The recipe gives you many customization opportunities. Add a handful of shredded coconut, throw in some chopped walnuts, or substitute the chocolate chips for raisins.

These oatmeal banana cookies are wonderful with a fourth teaspoon each of cinnamon and pure vanilla extract or a drop of almond extract.

I also love to add almond butter or peanut butter, because there’s nothing better in my mind than the combination of peanut butter, banana, and dark chocolate.

You could even use white chocolate chips or Vegan Peanut Butter Chips.

Adding an optional pinch of salt to the oatmeal banana cookie dough increases depth of flavor and really brings out the sweetness in these healthy cookies.

Substitutions I have not tried and therefore cannot recommend include swapping the banana with unsweetened apple sauce or canned pumpkin or using steel cut oats.

Use leftover banana to make Banana Muffins or Chocolate Banana Bread

How to make banana oatmeal cookies

If baking the cookies, preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

In a large mixing bowl, mash the bananas with a fork. Add the oats and optional ingredients, and stir to form an oatmeal cookie dough.

Refrigerate until firm enough to scoop the batter out with a spoon or cookie scoop.

For no bake banana cookies, simply freeze the cookies until hard. Or for baked cookies, place the unbaked cookie dough balls on a parchment lined baking sheet and bake on the oven’s center rack for twenty minutes.

Store leftover banana oat cookies in an airtight container in the refrigerator or freezer for optimum freshness. They should last for about four or five days refrigerated or up to three months frozen. Thaw before serving.

Chocolate chip breakfast cookies

Eat them for breakfast, snack, or dessert.

With potassium, fiber, iron, and no added sugar (not even maple syrup or honey), the naturally sweetened chocolate chip banana oatmeal cookies are a fun kid friendly and low calorie snack idea.

They are also a great natural source of energy for fitness buffs and athletes. Just add a scoop of protein powder and some peanut butter for a filling power workout treat. Peanut butter banana protein cookies? Yes, please!

If you have chia seeds, flax seeds, or hemp seeds on hand, stir in a handful for added texture and nutrition benefits.

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How do they taste?

At just 60 calories per cookie, these banana cookies are not going to taste like Nestle Tollhouse chocolate chip cookies or crispy Tate’s cookies. Any similar recipe that tells you they will isn’t being honest.

However, the soft, chewy, and healthy oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are absolutely delicious in their own right. If you like healthy desserts and how energetic eating them makes you feel, you will hopefully really love this simple recipe too.

1 cup rolled or quick oats
2 overripe bananas
1/4 cup chocolate chips
optional 3-4 tbsp almond or peanut butter
optional 1/8 tsp salt

If baking the banana cookies, preheat the oven to 350 F. Mash the bananas in a bowl. Stir in the oats, chocolate chips, and optional salt to form a dough. Refrigerate until firm enough to scoop out with a spoon or cookie scoop. Either freeze the cookies until hard (for no bake cookies), or bake on a parchment lined baking tray for 20 minutes.View Nutrition Facts