These fantastic peanut butter banana cookies are the best banana cookies to make with your mashed overripe bananas! If you are a fan of everything that combines peanut butter and banana flavors, then you are sure to love these easy to make drop cookies!
Tasty, Chewy Overripe Banana & Peanut Butter Cookies
In addition to being a tasty treat, they are almost healthy enough to call a snack more than a dessert! Plus, it's always awesome to have a few healthier alternatives to offer our daughter, rather than the usual decadent desserts!
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If you are one of those that is always looking for something new to try with your perfectly browned overripe bananas, this is a perfect cookie to try out!
🥘 Ingredients
Tasty, chewy banana cookies are just minutes away! The best part? All you need are some soft, sweet browned bananas and the usual staple cookie ingredients!
- Butter - I tend to use unsalted, but you can use salted butter just omit or reduce the extra salt from the recipe.
- Brown Sugar - I use a light brown sugar but a dark brown sugar will be good too!
- Egg - Fresh, binds the cookies.
- Peanut Butter - I go with creamy but chunky style peanut butter will be OK. You can also change the peanut butter for any other nut butter you like!
- Bananas - You will need 2 overripe mashed bananas.
- Vanilla Extract - Combines with the banana and gives an almost banana bread taste.
- Baking Powder -Leavening agent helps with the rise of the cookies.
- Baking Soda - Leavening agent, helps balance flavors.
- Salt - Regular table salt is fine here, the salt balances the sweetness.
- Nutmeg - Optional or you can use cinnamon.
- All-Purpose Flour - The base of the recipe, you can also use gluten free flour as well.
- Coarse Sugar - Or sugar crystals for the top of the cookies, this is optional but I love them with the little sugar crystals on top.
If you prefer your cookies thinner and a bit more chewy, simply add a touch of honey (and I love honey with peanut butter and bananas anyway).
*Be sure to see the free printable recipe card below for ingredients, exact amounts & instructions with tips!*
🔪 Step-By-Step Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350°F (175°C) and line your baking sheet(s) with parchment paper.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream together the softened butter and brown sugar until fluffy and light.
- Add the remaining wet ingredients (egg, peanut butter, mashed banana and vanilla extract) and mix until thoroughly combined.
- Add the baking powder, baking soda, salt and nutmeg then stir to combine.
- Add the flour and mix until the flour is just incorporated (do not over mix!) into the wet ingredients.
- Drop the peanut butter banana cookie dough in heaping tablespoonfuls of dough onto your baking sheet (you can roll them into 1-1 ½" balls, i just pinch the edges to form a rough ball).
- Make your criss-cross marks on the top using a fork (if desired) and sprinkle with coarse sugar or sugar crystals.
- Bake at 350°F (175°C) for 8-10 minutes or until the bottoms of your peanut butter banana cookies turn slightly golden.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 5 minutes on the baking sheet (cookies will be super soft) before transferring to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
Serve your peanut butter banana cookies up within minutes of baking with a nice glass of milk and enjoy!
💭 Angela's Tips & Recipe Notes
- These banana-rich cookies don't require being chilled, and will turn out soft and moist with a somewhat cake-like texture.
- For a less cake type cookie, you can get a more chewy cookie add ¼ cup honey to the wet ingredients and continue with the instructions until your cookie dough is mixed. Chill for one hour before baking.
- A great stir in would be some chocolate chips to make this even more indulgent! Or swap out the peanut butter for nutella. Yum! 🙂
🍌 More Browned Banana Recipes!
- Banana Blueberry Muffins
- Apple Banana Muffins
- Banana Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
- Super Moist Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
- Chocolate and Banana Marbled Mini Cakes with Peanut Butter Frosting
- Banana Bread with Streusel Topping
📋 Recipe
Best Peanut Butter Banana Cookies (Perfect Overripe Bananas Recipe!)
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter (room temperature)
- ½ cup light brown sugar (packed)
- 1 large egg (room temperature)
- ½ cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 cup bananas (2 medium mashed overripe bananas)
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ⅛ teaspoon ground nutmeg (or cinnamon)
- 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoon coarse sugar or sugar crystals (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350°F (175°C) and line your baking sheet(s) with parchment paper.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream together the softened butter and brown sugar until fluffy and light. Add the remaining wet ingredients (egg, peanut butter, mashed banana and vanilla extract) and mix until thoroughly combined.½ cup butter, ½ cup light brown sugar, 1 large egg, ½ cup creamy peanut butter, 1 cup bananas, 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- Add the baking powder, baking soda, salt and nutmeg then stir to combine. Add the flour and mix until the flour is just incorporated (do not over mix!) into the wet ingredients.1 teaspoon baking powder, ½ teaspoon baking soda, ½ teaspoon salt, ⅛ teaspoon ground nutmeg, 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- Drop the peanut butter banana cookie dough in heaping tablespoonfuls of dough onto your baking sheet (you can roll them into 1-1 ½" balls). Make your criss-cross marks on the top using a fork (if desired) and sprinkle with coarse sugar or sugar crystals.2 tablespoon coarse sugar or sugar crystals
- Bake at 350°F (175°C) for 8-10 minutes or until the bottoms of your peanut butter banana cookies turn slightly golden.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 5 minutes on the baking sheet (cookies will be super soft) before transferring to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
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Angela is an at home chef that developed a passion for all things cooking and baking at a young age in her Grandma's kitchen. After many years in the food service industry, she now enjoys sharing all of her family favorite recipes and creating tasty dinner and amazing dessert recipes here at Bake It With Love!
Laura Doublestein says
Absolutely love these light fluffy cookies so pleased with this recipe
Heather says
I didn't care for this recipe. The cookies were more cake than cookie and more banana than peanut butter. I'm going to try again but I'll cut back on the banana and omit the baking powder. Hopefully that will allow both flavors to be present and give me a crisper cookie.
Deja says
I appreciate how the ingredients and measurements were listed in the directions so I didn't have to scroll up and down.
The cookie do not spread... I was completely unaware so the balls I made remained balls lol! I'd like them to be a lot sweeter. Can I add more sugar or will it ruin the recipe?