Chewy Healthy Peanut Butter Banana Cookies are a twist on your peanut butter cookie recipe. Made with no butter and less sugar, they make a great snack!
These Healthy Peanut Butter Banana Cookies always come in for the win over the summer month and the start of the school year.
I’m sort of obsessed with peanut butter. Whenever I have a snack craving, it is my go-to. I have worked peanut butter into some of my favorite foods, including caramel with my Peanut Butter Caramel Sauce and snickerdoodle cookies with my Peanut Butter Snickerdoodles.
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It was a reader’s comment that made me switch up the recipe for my peanut butter cookies to make these Healthy Peanut Butter Banana Cookies. They mentioned in their comments that they reduced the brown and granulated sugars, increased the peanut butter, and added a banana. I meant to follow their directions and my recipe to a T so that I could recreate and try it.
Sadly, I didn’t follow my recipe directions and unknowingly omitted the butter. Upon the first bite, I was like, holy cow, I can taste the banana. I felt like I had missed an ingredient, but they tasted more like a muffin than a cookie. But they were so soft, and the banana and peanut butter shined, so I didn’t think more about it.
Then, when I came to write the recipe, I realized I left out the butter. EEK!
But when I added the nutritional content to these cookies, they came out to only 112 calories per cookie! So I was like, heck yes, they were just right then. Making a snack that is one of my kids’ favorites without overloading them with granulated sugar in the afternoon before dinner.
My hubby tried them and liked them, but he said that they would even be better with dark chocolate. I agree. It would add the perfect touch of sweetness. Now, while these cookies are labeled “healthy,” my kids still ate them. They are perfectly served with a glass of milk to dip into a drink afterward.
Peanut butter cookie Tips
While the entire recipe only takes a little over 30 minutes from start to finish, I would rather bake a batch once a week than once a day.
So are you looking for a snack or treat, that doesn’t all the “extras” like butter and sugar? Then try these Healthy Peanut Butter Banana Cookies. They are McCollum kids approved and that in itself is a reason you should try them.
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Healthy Peanut Butter Banana Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 1/2 cup ripe banana 1 – 1 1/2 bananas
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1/2 cup instant oats
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F.
- Mash the banana(s) using a fork or masher.
- Using an eletric mixer, beat together the peanut butter, brown sugar, and mashed banana.
- Add the egg and vanilla extract and continue to mix until well combined.
- In a small mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, oats, baking soda and salt. Slowly add to the mixer and combine with the wet ingredients.
- Use a cookie scoop to form into rounded balls and place on a parchment lined baking sheet.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown.
- These keep well for a couple of days in an airtight container.
These turned out very bad for me. I probably did something wrong. Tjey are almost raw but hard like hockey pucks.
I am so sorry they did not come out for you! This seems to happen occasionally with this recipe, but usually they come out great. Some tips would be to use creamy regular peanut butter, a brand like Jif or Skippy seems to work best. Using a kind that separates would not come out well as it could separate when cooking and turn out dry. Be sure to cook for only exactly the time and temperature in the recipe, then let them cool completely on the tray out of the oven. This helps them set but overbaking will dry them out as well. I hope you give them another try and enjoy!
Nothing better than the combo of bananas and peanut butter! These cookies will make the best afternoon treat tomorrow! Yum!
I totally agree! Enjoy!
Wow! What little bites of heaven! This is exactly what I was looking for to cure my sweet tooth! Yum!
Thank you, I hope you enjoy them!
Talk about the BEST combo! Love the sugar coating too!
It really is the best! Enjoy!
What happened to the original recipe, with the sugar topping? I pinned this in 2019 after making it and thought they were delicious. Just went to the pin again and it led me to this recipe, which I just made without realizing you changed it. and it is COMPLETELY different 🙁
What is your email? I will email it to you, sorry I did update it, because this is so much better, I hope you can try it, but happy to send you the original recipe as well.
It sounds like these cookies were a VERY happy accident. I need to make these for my son, I’m really trying to limit his sugar intake!
They definitely were! I’m sure he’ll love them 🙂
Looks scrumptious! Need to make a batch of these, love how healthy this recipe is!
Thanks! I hope you enjoy them!
These are yummy! For the nutritional information, what’s the serving size?
Thank you! The nutrition facts are for 1 cookie.
These look absolutely delicious! I will also be trying your hot cocoa recipe! Thanks so much!
Thank you! The hot cocoa recipes are to die for. Which one are you making, the triple chocolate, or sea salt caramel? Enjoy and let us know what you think!
Love the flavour combo + how relatively guilt free these cookies are. Awesome recipe!
Thanks!
HEALTHY PEANUT BUTTER BANANA COOKIES is awesome! They look very attractive. Thanks for your guide recipe. You make the work of making them easier, that’s great. will try it soon. Thanks again!
Thank you! Let us know how they turn out!
I love Banana Cookies! It’s great to be able to do it at home, thank you for your video and detailed instructions formulas, just follow and everything is easy.
Thank you, I hope you enjoy them!
Very good, I added cocoa and they turned out great. My husband liked them too, and he usually rejects healthy.
Cocoa is a great addition! We also love adding chocolate chips for extra yumminess. I’m glad you both enjoyed them!
Bringing these amazing cookies to work tomorrow to share with my colleagues. Thanks! I love the banana flavor coming through. I followed the recipe to a T, including rolling in sugar.
I hope they all enjoy! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for providing quality content. this helps me a lot. keep doing this great work.
I like adding 1 teaspoon cinnamon & 1/2cup mini dark chocolate chips.
Those sound like perfect additions! I definitely will keep them in mind next time we make these.
I really like this recipe, right from the beginning of the article, because bananas are my daily favorite food
Aren’t bananas great? I’m glad you enjoy!
Amazing, healthy, delicious, easy recipe. Kid and husband approved! I froze my batch and they are as incredible and fresh out of the freezer as they are the oven.
Yay! I’m so glad you and your family love them!
These are SO SO SO good! I made them today for my family and my son could not stop eating them. They are almost gone. And I gave a few to my friends and they asked for the recipe. I didn’t change anything and followed it exactly. I will be making these again and again and again! THANK YOU!
I’m so happy you and your friends loved them! Thanks for sharing how they turned out!
I really like this recipe, right from the beginning of the article, because bananas are my daily favorite food
I will make this for my friends.
It was delicious
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
I will definitely make my little daughter this for her birthday.
It looks awesome. my daughter will love it for sure.
thank you
What a great birthday treat! Enjoy!
I love these cookies! So do my kids and all my hobbies coworkers. Lol. Can I substitute flour for oats? Have you tried that? I am not experimental for fear of burning my house down. Lol. Thanks for a great recipe.
We have not tried these exact cookies without flour, but I have made similar recipes with just oats. It is worth a try, don’t worry, it won’t burn your house down! The texture will be different of course, and they may be a little flatter than the cookies pictured as oats don’t contain gluten as wheat flour does. Let us know if you do give it a try and how they turn out!
This is such a smart recipe! Peanut butter and banana go so well together. The lower amounts of sugar are great!
Thank you!
These Healthy Peanut Butter Banana Cookies are mouth watering!
Enjoy!