Easy Banana Oat Cookies Recipe (2024)

This super simple banana oat cookies recipe has just 2 essential ingredients - bananas and oats, with no eggs, no flour and no dairy products needed!

These easy oat cookies perfect for baking with kids when you're low on the usual store cupboard supplies, and they're really simple to customise by adding extra flavourings, spices or add-ins such as dried fruit, nuts or chocolate chips.

To make baking with the kids easier for you, you'll find a special printable child friendly recipe sheet towards the end of this post, as well as the usual recipe card at the very end.

I've offered a range of different ingredient options in the recipe below, so you can adapt the cookies to suit whatever flavours you fancy, or whatever supplies have in your cupboards right now.

I very quickly updated, tested and shot the photos for this recipe in preparation for the brand new Eats Amazing Live Cook-Along sessions that I'm starting later this week. In view of the schools being shut and most children in the UK staying at home, my boys and I have decided to live-film some super easy recipes in the hope that other children around the UK (and indeed, around the world, if you're awake at that time!) will join in and cook along with us.

If you couldn't make it to join us live, don't worry, the videos is now available to watch here on the Eats Amazing Facebook page, so you can cook along with your kids in your own kitchen at whatever time suits you best!

Update: Here's our live video if you'd like to bake along with us in your own time!

Easy Banana Oat Cookies

Ingredients (makes 10):

Essential:

• 2 very ripe bananas

• 80g oats

Optional extras (see alternatives below):

• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• 20g desiccated coconut
• 30g dark chocolate chips

Method:

Preheat the oven to 180°C (Gas mark 4/350°F). Lay out 10 silicone muffin cups on a baking tray.

Peel the bananas, then mash in a bowl. I just used a fork, but the kids love using a potato masher for this job!

Add the rest of the ingredients; oats and optional extras.

Stir well until ingredients are completely combined.

Divide the mixture between the 10 muffin cups and press each one down firmly with the back of a spoon

Bake for 15 minutes until the edges are starting to brown and crisp up.

Remove from the oven and leave to cool for a few minutes until the silicone cups are cool enough to handle.

Pop the bites from the muffin cups and leave to cool completely on a cooling rack.

Enjoy!

Note: Once completely cool, these cookie bites can be stored in an airtight container for up to 3 days.

Alternative Equipment

I would recommend silicone rather than paper muffin or cupcake cups for this recipe, but if you don't have any, you could also use a silicone muffin tray without muffin cups, or alternatively, scoop balls of the cookie mixture onto a lined baking sheet, squash down a little with the back of the spoon and bake like normal cookies.

Alternative Flavours / Extra Ingredients:

For flavouring, try ½ tsp mixed spice, ½ tsp cinnamon or ½ Tbsp cocoa powder in place of the vanilla extract, or leave it out altogether

In place of the desiccated coconut and/or chocolate chips, try any combination of the following ingredients, up to a combined weight of 50g total:

Roughly Chopped Nuts

Seeds

Dried Fruit:

• raisins / sultanas / currants
• cranberries
• chopped apricots
• chopped dates / prunes
• chopped apple rings
• chopped mango
• blueberries
• freeze dried strawberries or raspberries

Fresh Fruit:

• blueberries
• raspberries
• chopped strawberries
• peeled and chopped apple

Sweet Treats:

• milk chocolate chips
• white chocolate chips
• chopped up chocolate bars
• mini chocolate beans
• mini fudge cubes

Other Ingredients:

• grated carrot

Suggested Flavour Combinations

There really is no limit to the number of cookie flavours you can create with this recipe, but here are a few suggested flavour combinations that work really well:

Fruit & Nut Cookies:

• ½ tsp mixed spice
• 25g roughly chopped nuts of your choice
• 25g dried fruit of your choice

Triple Chocolate Cookies:

• ½ Tbsp cocoa powder
• 25g milk chocolate chips
• 25g white chocolate chips

Walnut Apple Pie Cookies:

• ½ tsp cinnamon
• 25g chopped walnuts
• 25g

Carrot Cake Cookies:

• ½ tsp cinnamon
• 25g grated carrot
• 20g raisins

Strawberries & Cream Cookies:

• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• 25g white chocolate chips
• 25g fresh chopped strawberries or freeze dried strawberries

Rainbow Unicorn Cookies:

• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• 30g mini chocolate beans
• 20g white chocolate chips

What is your favourite flavour combination? Please do comment below and let us know!

As this recipe is designed for the kids cook-along, I've created an extra child-friendly recipe sheet with simpler instruction for your child to follow. Click here or on the picture below to download the PDF file to print out your copy.

If you enjoyed this recipe, you might also like these easy recipes to cook with kids:

Easy Cheese Oatcakes

Easy Homemade Granola

Coconut Oil Chocolate

Banana Frozen Yogurt Bites

For even more fun and easy recipes to cook with your kids, head over to the Easy Recipes for Kids section here on the Eats Amazing blog, where you'll find lots more recipes with child-friendly recipes sheets.

Happy baking!

Grace

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