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These Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies are moist, chewy, dense and full of banana and chocolate chips! They aren’t cake-like at all – these may become your new favorite cookies!
If you love this banana dessert, you should also try my Mini Banana Pudding Cheesecake!

So I mentioned that the hubs was having his citizenship test and interview on Monday. I wasn’t there, but it doesn’t sound like it was the most fun thing ever.
It seems like the person that he ended up interviewing with wasn’t the most friendly. And she totally grilled him. They did the test early on and that was easy. He passed after the first 6 questions, so they moved on.
Then came the interview. When I say she grilled him, I mean she asked him some very similar questions over and over. The hubs said it seemed like she was trying to trip him up and scrutinizing him to see if he was lying.
His parents and sister have already gotten their citizenship and apparently they were easier on his mom and sister, but similarly more intense with his dad.
Everything seems to have gone fine, but she gave him no indication of if she’d need more information or not and when he might actually receive his citizenship. In fact, when he asked about when it might be, she seems to have gotten suspicious about why he was in such a hurry.
I mean seriously.
I’m not going to lie – I’ve found the whole process to be kind of frustrating. And I’m not even the one going through it. And the hubs has been here for 20 years, speaks English and is basically American just since he grew up here. He doesn’t even have an accent anymore. It’s crazy to think about how difficult the system must be for someone who doesn’t have those advantages.
It’s certainly a very interesting glimpse into the system of what it’s like for people legally trying to be in our country. Not easy.
Fortunately, making these cookies is easy. And I might just need to eat an entire batch of them. Emotional eating, you know?
The hubs and I are big fans of anything banana. It was one of the first food related things we bonded over as teenagers. Our love of banana cheesecake, in particular. I always get excited about making banana treats, because I know the hubs will love them. These Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies were no exception – he LOVED them!
Last year, I made these Moist and Chewy Banana Oatmeal Cookies from my grandmother’s cookbook. They’ve been a big hit, so I decided it was time to try a non-oatmeal version and add some chocolate to the mix. I have to say, I think I like these might be even better than the oatmeal ones.
It took some experimenting to get these just right. Bananas cookies, like pumpkin cookies, tend to be more cakey. I knew I wanted a dense and chewy banana cookie. The cakey ones were delicious too, just not what I was going for.
You’ll notice that the recipe doesn’t have any eggs or leavening agents, like baking soda. Both of those contributed to the cakey consistency of the cookie, so I left them out. The result is a wonderfully dense cookie. It has a ton of banana flavor with a full cup of mashed ripe bananas in it. And all the chocolate chips were absolutely delicious. There were plenty of chocolate chips in every bite.
The hubs was very protective over these cookies. He did NOT want to share. There were a few people that got to taste them, but not many. He didn’t even want me to eat them. Of course, I wasn’t having any of that. Gimme! 🙂
More Banana Recipes
Easy Banana Bread
Bananas Foster Cheesecake
Overnight Baked Banana French Toast
Mini Banana Pudding Cheesecake
Banana Pudding Puppy Chow
Blueberry Banana Mini Cakes
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 13 minutes
- Total Time: 28 minutes
- Yield: 24-26 Cookies
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Description
These Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies are moist, chewy, dense and full of banana and chocolate chips! They aren’t cake-like at all – these may become your new favorite cookies!
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup salted butter, melted
- 1 cup brown sugar, lightly packed
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup mashed ripe bananas
- 2 3/4 cups all purpose flour
- 2 tsp cornstarch
- 1 1/2 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
Nutrition
- Serving Size: One Cookie
- Calories: 180
- Sugar: 13.7 g
- Sodium: 56.9 mg
- Fat: 9.1 g
- Carbohydrates: 23.5 g
- Protein: 2.6 g
- Cholesterol: 17 mg
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Enjoy!
How do you double the recipe?
Do these freeze well for future baking?
I haven’t ever tested that with these so I’m not sure. My assumption is that it would be OK.
Sounds delish!!! Making with my toddlers tonight ! Will tag ya !
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Best alternative for corn starch: Fine semolina
The recipe worked like a charm and gave me more than 30 cookies (YAY!) it was so yum even my picky hubby loved it (weird! But yay!) I replaced the corn starch with fine semolina because it is also a thickening agent. Thank you for such a creative recipe which finally made me say goodbye to the same old banana bread. Please keep those creative recipes rolling!!
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Has this recipe changed drastically since originally posted? I made it a long time ago and they were fantastic but I know at least one change was it used to say 2 bananas and if memory serves the butter wasn’t originally melted. I had to use almost 3 bananas to get one cup and between the banana and melted butter wound up with dough so soupy I had to add a ton more flour to be able to scoop it. I’ve been baking for over 20 years and know all the ins and outs of measuring properly, fresh ingredients etc. End result was my kids literally spitting them out and the entire batch going in the trash 🙁 I would love the original recipe (and yes I know this is the correct site I have it bookmarked from when I made it last) if possible. Thanks…
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The recipe hasn’t changed at all. It’s exactly the same now as it was when it was posted.
Odd because even in the previous comments from 2016 there are references to “two bananas” not one cup
After trying to make the recipe you have for banana oatmeal cookies, my daughter and I tried this recipe, and I have to say I am very satisfied with the result. Unlike when we tried the banana oatmeal cookies, these cookies didn’t collapse, and had a GREAT taste! The entire batch was gone within a couple of days! Plus, now we have a great recipe to result to when we’re sick of making banana bread with our overripe bananas.
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I’m so glad you enjoyed the cookies!