🍪 Banana Oat Cookies

Banana Oat Cookies for kids: the whole recipe

Let's bake cookies with just bananas and oats: no sugar needed! This easy recipe is for ages 5 to 11 (grades K–5th), takes about 25 minutes and serves 4. Crumb, our tiny chef, reads every step aloud with a picture, so a child can follow along, and every hot or sharp step is marked for a grown-up.

Ingredients

• 2 ripe bananas
• 1 cup rolled oats
• ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
• ¼ cup chocolate chips (optional)

Tools

A mixing bowl, A fork, A big spoon, Measuring cups, Measuring spoons, A baking tray, Baking paper, The oven (grown-up), Oven mitts.

Steps

1. Wash your hands with soap for twenty seconds.
2. Grown-up step: A grown-up turns the oven on to 350°F.
3. Lay a sheet of baking paper on the tray.
4. Peel 2 ripe bananas into a bowl and mash with a fork until gooey.
5. Stir in 1 cup of rolled oats and ¼ teaspoon of cinnamon until it's all sticky.
6. Stir in ¼ cup of chocolate chips.
7. Drop spoonfuls onto the tray and press each one flat.
8. Grown-up step: A grown-up bakes them for 12 to 15 minutes, until the edges are golden.
9. Grown-up step: A grown-up takes the tray out with mitts on: let the cookies cool for 10 minutes.
10. Take a bite: can you taste how sweet the banana made them?

Safety notes

• Hot! A grown-up does this part.
• Contains milk, soy. Tap "Allergies?" on the Kitchen's front page and the swaps fill themselves in where there is one.
• Read the label on packets for allergies.
• A bit messy.
• Sticky fingers.

Kitchen science

As a banana ripens, its starch turns into sugar, so spotty bananas make cookies sweet with no sugar added.

Make it your own

• Stir a spoonful of sunflower butter into the mash.
• Swap the chocolate chips for raisins or dried cranberries.
• Press a blueberry into the middle of each cookie before baking.

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