Peanut Butter Banana Oatmeal Cookies – 4 Ways
By Carine Claudepierre
Published on 09/09/2019 - Last updated on 03/03/2023
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Peanut butter banana oatmeal cookies are 3-Ingredient Oatmeal Banana Cookies perfect for breakfast.
Plus, these vegan banana oatmeal cookies have no added sugar, and they are kid-friendly.
I have a passion for 3-ingredient peanut butter cookies. Below are my favorites that you should try:
- No-Bake Peanut Butter Cookies – a melt-in-your-mouth no-bake cookie ready in 10 minutes.
- 3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies – a crunchy buttery vegan peanut butter cookie.
What Are Peanut Butter Banana Oatmeal Cookies?
These 3-ingredient banana cookies are delicious vegan banana oatmeal cookies for busy mornings.
These are soft peanut butter banana oatmeal cookies, mildly sweet, and ready in only 20 minutes.
You will love that the ingredients are very basic and that you probably have them in the pantry to try the recipe now.
How To Make Peanut Butter Banana Oatmeal Cookies
These cookies require only 3 ingredients for the base recipe, and they are super easy to make.
Ingredients
Let’s see what you need:
- Ripe Banana – I am talking about bananas with dark spots on the skin and almost dark inside. They are the ones you need to make those cookies without adding any sweetener.
- Peanut Butter – use natural peanut butter with no added oil, no added sugar, or salt.
- Instant Oat also called rolled oats – you need the finely chopped grains, not the large ones, or the cookies will be dry.
Making Peanut Butter Banana Oatmeal Cookies
These 3-ingredient cookies with bananas are very easy to adapt to create a range of cookie flavors.
My favorite flavors are:
Carrot Cake Cookies
Add a few simple ingredients like grated carrots, raisins, and walnuts. It results in delicious banana carrot cake cookies!
Classic Banana Peanut Butter Cookies
The classic Banana Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookie recipe makes simple 3-ingredient banana cookies.
Chocolate Zucchini Cookies
Add unsweetened cocoa powder, vegan chocolate chips, pumpkin seeds, and grated zucchini.
These ingredients are excellent together and marry perfectly with the base banana cookies!
Super-Seeds Cookies
Add chia seeds, hemp seeds, pumpkin seeds, coconut, and cranberries.
This will transform these simple 3-ingredient banana cookies into the healthiest vegan breakfast cookies.
Healthy Banana Cookies
These healthy peanut butter cookies are made without any added sweetener.
They are naturally sweetened with ripe bananas, which means no added sugar!
Obviously, if you have a very sweet tooth, add a few drops of stevia to your batter to enhance the sweetness of your cookies.
Serving Breakfast Oatmeal Cookies
These vegan cookies are absolutely perfect for breakfast on the go.
They are full of healthy complex carbs, fiber, and protein to bring the energy you need for a whole day.
More Vegan Cookie Recipes
If you like this recipe, you’ll love these other vegan cookie recipes:
Don’t forget to check all my Ripe Banana Recipes ideas for more ways to use those ripe bananas!
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Peanut Butter Banana Oatmeal Cookies – 4 Ways
Ingredients
Classic
- 1 medium Banana - ripe, black spots on the skin, mashed
- ¼ cup Peanut Butter (Unsalted) - no added oil, no added sugar
- 1 ¼ cup Old-Fashioned Rolled Oats - or quick oats, plain, no added sugar
Carrot Cake add-ons
Chocolate zucchini
- 1 teaspoon Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
- ¼ cup Zucchini - grated
- 2 tablespoons Pumpkin seeds - or sunflower seeds
- ¼ cup Vegan Dark Chocolate Chips
Superseeds add-ons
- 2 tablespoons Hemp Hearts
- 1 tablespoon Chia Seeds
- 2 tablespoons Pumpkin seeds
- 2 tablespoons Cranberries - dried
- 2 tablespoons Desiccated Coconut - unsweetened
Optional, if banana not ripe enough
- ½ teaspoon Vanilla Stevia - add if your banana are not ripe/sweet enough
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180°C (350°F). Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Lightly oil the paper if needed to prevent the cookies from sticking to the paper. Set aside.
- Mash the ripe banana on a flat surface transfer to a mixing bowl
- Stir in peanut butter and rolled oats until it forms a sticky cookie batter. Adjust the sweetness with stevia drops if needed, especially if the bananas are not ripe enough.
- You can now choose to add any of the add-ons you like following the recipe ideas suggested above or add nothing and cook the cookies with these 3 ingredients.
- Form 8 cookie dough balls.
- Place each cookie dough ball onto the prepared cookie sheet. Flatten the cookies with your hand palm. Leave 1 thumb of space between cookies even if they won't expand during baking it makes it easier to remove them from the tray later.
- Bake for 10-15 minutes or until golden brown on the sides.
- Cool on a cookie rack for 20 minutes or until it reaches room temperature. The sweetness and flavor increase when the cookies are cool. If not sweet enough, after baking, drizzle some melted vegan dark chocolate on top!
Storage
- Store at room temperature for 3 days in a cookie jar or ziplock bags.
- Can be frozen and defrost the day before.
Can you use thawed frozen banana?
That’s a great question, I guess ye but I didn’t try so I am unsure how it will affect the recipe. Let me know if you try.
I adore these cookies. I do add a little pinch of salt as it brings on the full flavours.
I made the carrot version. They came out delicious. I skipped the raisins. I added my oats to the Cuisinart and pulsed them a few times so they wouldn’t be so big.
Thank you so much! glad you love them
These look amazing. I can’t eat peanut butter – could I replace it with something else or could I leave it out altogether?
Sure, almond butter, sun butter are great swaps in same amount. Enjoy
After mashing the banana, I do not see a measurement. Is it one cup?
Measurement appears above this comment section, in the recipe card, enjoy!
Is it 1 cup? It’s not in the recipe card on my end. Thx !
The recipe use 1 banana, mashed which is closer to 2/3 cup
Can steel cut oats be used rather than rolled oats?
It will be very crunchy and hard on your teeth, I wouldn’t try that option.
These are so yummy! I made the classic cookies and they were so easy to make and delicious. Now to make the variations!