Banana Bread Chocolate Chip Cookies
Banana Bread Chocolate Chip Cookies are thick, soft, chewy, loaded with gooey chocolate chunks, and taste just like a slice of warm homemade banana bread in cookie form!
Servings: 14 large cookies
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup salted butter softened at room temperature
- 1/3 cup granulated white sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 whole large egg
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste
- 1 small mashed overripe banana measured to 1/4- 1/3 cup
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 cup chocolate chunks or chocolate chips- roughly chopped with big and small chunks about 2 3.5 ounce bars
- 1/4 cup chopped walnuts optional for topping
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper and set aside. With an electric mixer in a large bowl or in the bowl of a stand mixer, cream together the butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Add the egg, vanilla extract and mashed banana. Beat until combined.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda and cinnamon.
- Add the flour mixture to the wet mixture and mix together until cookie dough is formed, scraping down the sides of a bowl with a spatula occasionally. Do not over-mix.
- Add the chopped chocolate chunks and mix until incorporated.
- With a large cookie scoop or ice cream scoop, equivalent to 1/4 cup, scoop cookie dough into balls and place on the prepared cookie sheets. Top with chopped walnuts and add more chopped chocolate pieces to the tops of the cookies to look extra pretty.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes. Remove the cookies from the oven and let cool on the cookie sheets for a few minutes before transferring to a cooling rack. Enjoy!