Banana Drop Cookies. These are light fluffy cookies and great for using up those overripe bananas! Easy recipe too! Everybody loves a cookie or two! This recipe is very easy and uses regular ingredients. It's also a great way to use up left overripe bananas.
These Banana Drop Cookies are quite light and fluffy, soft to the bite, so don't expect crunchy!
They are absolutely delicious with a glass of milk or a cup of tea too.
The recipe was shared by one of our Lovefoodies supporters, Jana, who says she first saw the recipe on the back of a C&H Packet, and has been making these cookies ever since.
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It's certainly a keeper recipe and Jana loves baking these with her son (who could quite easily eat them all if you let him!) .
Lovefoodies also tested the recipe out, and the photos show you what the cookies look like once baked.
It's a shame you can't smell or taste via a computer, so that means you simply have to bake them yourself!
So please enjoy our delicious Banana Drop Cookies.
Check out our white chocolate cranberry variation on this banana drop recipe! So good!
Recipe By C&H and Photos By Lovefoodies
Prep time
30 minutes
Baking time
8 minutes
Serving size
Approx 50
Ingredients
1¼ cups or 250g sugar
⅔ cup or 170g butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup, approx 1 medium sized banana; mashed well
2 Eggs, beaten
2¼ cups or 280g all purpose, plain flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
¼ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon cinnamon
For topping (optional)
¼ Cup or 50g sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon combined.
Instructions
1) In a small bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt and ½ teaspoon of cinnamon.
2) Cream sugar, butter, and vanilla until light and fluffy.
3) Add eggs and beat well. Stir in banana.
4) Slowly mix dry ingredients into wet. Chill 30 minutes in the refrigerator.
5) Preheat oven to 400 F, 200C.
6) Drop teaspoon sized balls of dough two inches apart on greased cookie sheets. Sprinkle with cinnamon/sugar mixture; if desired.
7) Bake 8-10 minutes or until browned. Cool 2 minutes, then transfer to racks.
We'd love to hear from you and what you thought of our banana drop cookies recipe. Did you make any changes or add some other goodies? Let us know in the comments below. Thanks for reading and happy cooking!
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Banana Drop Cookies. These are a light fluffy cookie and great for using up those overripe bananas! Easy recipe too!
Ingredients
- 1¼ cups or 250g sugar
- ⅔ cup or 170g butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup, approx 1 medium sized banana; mashed well
- 2 Eggs, beaten
- 2¼ cups or 280g all purpose, plain flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
For topping (optional)
- ¼ Cup or 50g sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
Instructions
- In small bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt and ½ teaspoon of cinnamon.
- Cream sugar, butter, and vanilla until light and fluffy.
- Add eggs and beat well. Stir in banana.
- Slowly mix dry ingredients into wet. Chill 30 minutes in refrigerator.
- Preheat oven to 400.
- Drop teaspoon sized balls of dough two inches apart on greased cookie sheets. Sprinkle with cinnamon/sugar mixture; if desired.
- Bake 8-10 minutes or until browned. Cool 2 minutes, then transfer to racks.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 50 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 73Total Fat: 3gSaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 1gCholesterol: 15mgSodium: 72mgCarbohydrates: 11gFiber: 0gSugar: 6gProtein: 1g
Nutrition information isn’t always accurate
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Barbara
says:They turned out like mini banana bread cookies. I was disappointed.
Rachel Robles
says:I made these for a friend’s birthday and put penuche frosting on top and they were fantastic!
Jood
says:What do you mean by cream sugar
Lovefoodies
says:Hi there, creaming is the method used when you add sugar and butter and using an electric mixer (or a wooden spoon), you beat until the mixture becomes pale in color and turns a fluffy texture. Hope that helps!
Brenda Budd
says:I just made them and they tasted great. My oven must be way to hot cause every bottom was too brown for my liking. Next time I will lower the test and use parchment paper, was looking for a tasty cookie to make for the homeless. I will try to add other ingredients as well, the first time round I stick to the recipe.
Lovefoodies
says:Hi Brenda, yes, the ovens can vary so much, but at least you know how to fix that for next time. We have had a few people adding some extra goodies to the cookies if you have time to read some of the comments below. There’s some lovely idea for mixing these up a bit!
Thanks for writing in and glad you liked the recipe.
Sonya
says:I made these and added walnuts, oatmeal,chocolate chunks ,granola and coconut! Scrumptious!
jood
says:it looks so good but i had a hard time to understand it i mean Instruction number 2 and 3 do i add it to number 1 thanx
Lovefoodies
says:Hi there, instructions 2 and 3 are combined in the same bowl, then the ingredients you added in instruction 1, you need to put them in the bowl you added the butter, banana and eggs to. Instruction 1 is all the dry ingredients listed in the recipe. Hope that helps!
Jen
says:These turned out amazing!! I made exactly by the recipe and they were so good!
Sheli
says:I made these today and they were delicious. I added chopped pecans to my batter. I actually missed putting the cinnamon in the dough. I sprinkled with cinnamon sugar on the top of the first batch and they were yummy. The second tray of cookies went in without the cinnamon and sugar by mistake. After they began to bake I remembered it and pulled them out and sprinkled a lot of the cinnamon and sugar on top and put them back in the oven to finish baking. That tray of cookies was the best :-) thanks for a great recipe and a terrific way to use those right bananas.
Lovefoodies
says:Hi Sheli! Sometimes when we make mistakes we end up with the BEST food!! So glad you enjoyed the cookies!
Anusha
says:Could you substitute the butter for coconut oil? If so, would it be a direct substitution?
Lovefoodies
says:Hi Anusha, I haven’t tried any substitution in the recipe so I’m afraid I can’t advise on using coconut oil. If you do try it, please do let us know incase others ask too!
Martine
says:Just baked them 10 minutes ago.
They turned out delicious.
Definitely one of my favourite cookie .
Lovefoodies
says:Hey Martine! So glad you like the cookies!
Have a super weekend :)
Karmello
says:I’m inspired. I baked them today. Recipe was simple. They turned out good! Not as round as would have liked, but tasty!
Thanks for the recipe!
Michele D'Anjolell
says:Has anyone ever tried swapping out 1/4 c of the sugar for 1/4 c of brown sugar. Make it like banana foster’s drops?
Betty
says:They look very nice I wil make this weekend I also use bananas and make little cakes is a recipe from my dear +mom.. First you peel 3 bananas and mash them and put sugar and vanilla and then in the mixer add one egg..Mix again and at last the flour with cinammon, when all is well mixed take portions and fry in hot oil..When they are brown you take from the pan and put sugar over. Sorry my english explaining recipes.I hope you like this. Now I have cookies of bananas this is amazing,,,
Bonnie M. Horeski
says:Mmmm! Those sound delicious, like a banana doughnut? Would love to know the actual measurements!
The Kosher Tomato
says:Hi there! I did actually put a hyperlink to your page/ recipe – but looking at it now, I’m only able to see your page URL if I hover over it. I will see if I can fix that now! (I’m new to wordpress)
thekoshertomato
says:Thanks for the inspiration to make this!
Lovefoodies
says:Hi Sandy, glad you were inspired! I’d love it if you linked up to us in your recipe rather than a mention because that will help your readers find the recipe you refer to in your post.
Thanks very much!