❤️ Why You’ll Love These Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies
Delicious: These banana chocolate chip cookies are so ooey, gooey, and delicious Easy: Whip up these cookies so easily and quickly. They’ll take less than 30 minutes Food Waste: I can’t be the only one that ends up with overly ripe bananas. This recipe is a great way to use them up without tossing the
🍲 Ingredients
Bananas – Bananas contain essential nutrients that can help enhance heart health, manage blood pressure, and even are a mood-boosting food. The best part is that they are also so versatile, you can add them into baking, oatmeal, eat them on their own, make milkshakes, smoothies, etc. Almond Flour – Naturally gluten-free, almond flour contains lots of nutrients and vitamins like vitamin E, magnesium, and fiber. It’s also low in carbs and high in healthy fats so it can be a great alternative flour for those on a keto diet
👩🍳 How to Make Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies
🪄 Tips and Tricks
Bake with a Playlist: For this recipe, I team up with my friends at Chiquita. One of the cool things Chiquita is doing right now is partnering with Spotify. All you have to do is scan the sticker on your Chiquita bananas on the Spotify app and you’ll be given a curated playlist that’s perfect for that kitchen dance party while baking these vegan cookies or podcasts that are perfect for those not in the mood for dancing. How do I use bananas in their different stages of life? Green: Unripe bananas have a ton of nutritional benefits. Green bananas have a high resistant starch content and low sugar content, meaning that those who suffer from Type 2 Diabetes are actually better off eating green bananas than yellow ones. Unripe bananas also have probiotic bacteria that help with good colon health, AND unripe bananas can help you absorb nutrients like calcium, better than ripe bananas can. Any recipe that calls for plantains you can replace with unripe bananas. Another way to eat them is as fries. How? Cut them how you would potatoes or chips, cover them in breadcrumbs & season to your preference then fry or bake them up, and you have a healthy snack! I’ve also been experimenting by throwing them into salads and curries. Ripe: This is the easiest stage in the banana’s life for you to digest a banana because the resistant starch changed to simple sugar. Bananas also obtain higher levels of antioxidants as they ripen, and fully ripe bananas produce TNF which gives ripe bananas anti-cancer qualities. Overripe: One of the best parts about bananas is that you can freeze them when they get overripe and take them out when you need them for recipes such as baking, pancakes, milkshakes, and smoothies.
🗒 Variations
Vegan: These cookies are entirely vegan as long as you use vegan butter Gluten-Free: This recipe is gluten-free as long as you use almond flour
🗒 Substitutions
Butter: You can substitute vegan butter with regular butter, the substitute is usually 1:1 Flour: If you don’t have almond flour, you can use regular flour or whole wheat flour. Use 2 cups vs. 2.5 cups Chocolate Chips: You can use chocolate chunks, or semi-sweet chocolate chips instead of dark
🗒 Other banana recipes to try
Banana Nutella Crepes Zucchini Banana Bread 5-Minute Fried Banana Recipe
👝 How to Store Leftovers
Store leftover banana chocolate chip cookies in an airtight container on your counter for 7-days. You can also freeze these by freezing in an airtight container, and thawing out on the counter when ready to consume.
🤔 Common Questions
