Are you ready for a 4-ingredient chocolate fix? These Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Cookies are a healthy alternative will satisfy your chocolate cravings without the guilt.

Basically baked oatmeal in cookie form, you can make these Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Cookies in no time. Perfect for those brown bananas you need to use up!

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Who else is a chocoholic? I don’t know if I could go a full day without chocolate. I will also admit that my chocolate cravings can get out of control.

So, I’m always on the lookout for better chocolate choices. Just enough to satisfy my cravings, but also something I can feel pretty good about.

Banana Oatmeal Chocolate “Cookies”

This Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Cookie recipe is basically baked oatmeal. It’s not exactly like a “cookie” but it holds together and is the perfect snack.

With just bananas and oatmeal to bind them together, they have a different texture. That is why it’s important to form them into a thin cookie shape and cook the full time. If you don’t, you will end up with something that is rubbery in texture.

I don’t share this to make them sound unappetizing. Obviously, I love this recipe for a satisfying chocolate fix. I make them all the time! However, besides the cookie shape, they don’t exactly have the crisp cookie crunch.

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Just four ingredients… or something like that

The best part about this Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Cookies recipe is that there is only 4 ingredients! It’s so easy!

It’s also the perfect way to use up your very ripe bananas. I look forward to anytime the family doesn’t eat the bananas before they turn brown. They immediately get snatched up for this recipe!

As long as you also have cocoa powder and oats in your pantry, you are all set!

Wait, that’s only three ingredients… Yep, with just those three you can make Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Cookies. However, if you also have a little vanilla extract and mini chocolate chips, you can make them even better.

Ok, wait, that’s 5 ingredients? Well, I figure if only the first three ingredients are mandatory and the second two are optional, let’s average that out and just go with four. Right?…

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Making the perfect Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Cookies

There are a couple things you have to do to get these cookies right.

First, mixing the ingredients in the right order will help immensely. Start by smashing the bananas in a bowl and getting them as smooth as possible.

Next, add the cocoa powder so it mixes in well with the smashed banana. A little vanilla extract just makes it feel like we’re baking real chocolate chip cookies.

Once all that is mixed together, start adding the oatmeal.

Depending on the size of the bananas you might want to add more oatmeal to the mix. If it’s looking a little wet, slowly add a bit more oatmeal one 1/4 cup at a time.

The more you make them, the more you’ll understand the consistency you like.

Last, a couple tablespoons of mini chocolate chips make these seem like a real cookie. I’ve had them without and they’re good, but a little melted chocolate brings them up to a level that totally satisfies a chocolate craving.

Another tip, I mentioned before, is that these will not expand on the pan in the oven. They have to be shaped before they go into the oven. For a better consistency, I recommend patting them nice and thin, less than a half inch.

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The pan everyone needs

I have to give my favorite pan it’s very own section. I have been raving about USA pans since way back in 2012 or 13 when I told you all about how we make enough frozen breakfast sandwiches to last 3 weeks.

USA Pans are amazing for a recipe like this. No need to spray and, once the cookies cool and firm up, you just give them a gentle twist and they lift off the pan easily.

I’m pretty obsessed with these pans. I have 4 half sheet pans, 2 quarter sheet pans, one extra large sheet pan, one cake pan, and one muffin tin. That might not be all, either! You can’t go wrong with these pans. So, I can’t recommend this full set enough.

Easily alter this recipe on a “per banana” basis

One of the great things about these Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Cookies is that they’re very flexible. We aren’t really working with science here and needing the right amount of flour, baking soda, etc. Each time I make them I have a different number of bananas I want to use up, and it always works.

Just think of everything as “per banana.”

So, for each banana in the recipe you can figure 1 cup of oats, 1 tablespoon of cocoa powder, and one tablespoon (or less) of mini chocolate chips. As you include more bananas, you don’t always need the full amount of cocoa powder, but this is still a very easy way to remember.

So, let’s get to that recipe, shall we?

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