Banana bread cookies with chocolate chips

Name: Banana bread cookies with chocolate chips
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 20 min
Ingredients: 1 cup all purpose flour; ½ teaspoon baking soda; 1 teaspoon baking powder; ½ medium-sized ripe banana; 2 Tablespoons agave syrup (or maple syrup); 3 Tablespoons applesauce*; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 2 Tablespoons canola oil; ¼ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

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Banana bread cookies with chocolate chips are little pillows of puffy sweetness. When you don’t want to wait for a loaf to bake, these easy vegan cookies are ready in just 20 minutes!

This weekend I decided to make a batch of my vegan banana bread cookies with chocolate chips. They are so pillowy and light with a kiss of banana flavor.

They don’t overwhelm with sweetness. So it’s easy to eat two or three.

The chocolate pairs with the banana wonderfully. (I bet they’d also be good with walnuts if that’s how you prefer your banana bread.)

I adore banana bread. But I don’t always feel like waiting 45 or 50 minutes for it to bake. These banana bread cookies are ready from start to finish in just 20 minutes!

(By the way, if you do want to make a full loaf of banana bread, this recipe from The Full Helping is my go-to. It always gets raves.)

How to find vegan chocolate chips

Dairy-free chocolate chips are easy to find. In fact, a lot of the chips on the market are accidentally vegan.

When buying them, look for the words “dark chocolate” or “semi-sweet.” And of course, you’ll want to read the ingredient label.

They sell vegan chips in the bulk bin at my local co-op. And at Trader Joe’s, you can buy bags of the semi-sweet variety that are vegan.

How to make banana bread cookies

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line two baking sheets with parchment.

Combine all of the dry ingredients in a mixing bowl:

Flour
Baking soda
Baking powder

Combine the wet ingredients in a separate bowl:

Smashed ripe banana
Agave syrup (or maple syrup)
Applesauce
Vanilla
Canola oil

Add wet ingredients to dry. Gently combine into a dough ball. Add in chocolate chips.

Use a Tablespoon to scoop the dough into balls & put them on parchment.

Bake for 10 minutes.

What to do with leftover applesauce

This recipe calls for just three Tablespoons of applesauce. If you have leftovers, use some of it in vegan peanut butter oatmeal cookies and/or apple cinnamon pancakes.

Or grab single serving snack packs of applesauce for this recipe! They’re handy to keep on hand for when you just need a small amount.

Need a substitution?

If you don’t have applesauce, you can replace it with a flax egg instead.

Whisk 3 Tablespoons of water with 1 Tablespoon of ground flaxseed. Let it sit for 5 minutes until it becomes gelatinous. Then add it to the wet ingredients.

Content and photos updated May 2020. Originally posted December 2012.

About Cadry

Cadry Nelson is the writer, photographer, and recipe creator behind Cadry’s Kitchen, a vegan food & lifestyle blog started in 2009. Through approachable recipes, vegan travel guides, and down-to-earth discussions on the social aspects of being vegan, Cadry shows that living a vegan lifestyle is deliciously uncomplicated. Cadry has been featured on NBC News, Mashable, Today, Reader's Digest, Yahoo, Delish, Shape, and Huffington Post.

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