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Vegan Banana Oat Cookies

These banana oat cookies are soft, wonderfully spiced, and such a fun fall recipe. After using both whole and crushed oats, we roll the dough in cinnamon sugar, making these a perfect cross between your favorite oatmeal cookie, banana bread, and a snickerdoodle!
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 11 minutes
Chilling Time 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 11 minutes
Servings: 24 Cookies
Course: Dessert, Snack
Cuisine: American
Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients
  

For the Cookies:
  • 60 grams Vegan Butter (4 tbsps.) Browned and cooled to room temperature
  • 120 grams Coconut Oil (3/4 cup), room temperature
  • 208 grams Banana (2 medium bananas), mashed
  • 108 grams Brown Sugar (1/2 cup, lightly packed)
  • 108 grams Granulated Sugar (1/2 cup)
  • 1 tsp. Vanilla Extract
  • 320 grams All-Purpose Flour (2 1/2 cups, spooned and leveled)
  • 95 grams Oats (1 cup), blended to various sizes
  • 55 grams Oats (1/2 cup), Whole
  • 4 grams Baking Soda (1/2 tsp.)
  • 3 grams Baking Powder (3/4 tsp.)
  • 7 grams Fine Sea Salt (1 tsp.)
  • 1/8 tsp. Nutmeg
  • 1/8 tsp. Cinnamon
For Rolling the Cookies:
  • 1/2 cup Granulated Sugar
  • 1 1/2 tsps. Cinnamon

Equipment

  • 1 Food Processor or Blender
  • 1 Handheld mixer or Stand Mixer
  • 1 Saucepan for browning butter, optional

Method
 

Brown the Vegan Butter and Leave to Cool:
  1. Brown the vegan butter. In a medium saucepan, melt the butter over medium-low heat, stirring now and then. The butter will start to bubble; scrape the bottom, stir, and continue to toast. Even as the butter bubbles, it is fine and browning; just keep stirring, and you may take off the heat to check the color of the vegan butter until it is browned. It should be fairly dark and separated, as the toasted fat bits will separate and fall to the bottom. Empty into a large bowl and leave to cool.
    60 grams Vegan Butter
Process the Oats:
  1. In a food processor or blender, add the 1 cup of oats and blend until crumbly, fine, and fairly small. You want some variance in size and not for it to be fully oat flour, so only 30 seconds of blending or so.
    95 grams Oats
Make the Dough:
  1. In a large bowl or a stand mixer bowl, add the coconut oil to the cooled, browned butter. Whip the vegan butter and coconut oil together until well combined and the coconut oil isn't chunky.
    120 grams Coconut Oil, 60 grams Vegan Butter
  2. Add the brown and white sugar. Mix and whip until light, fluffy, and well combined, about 3 minutes on medium speed.
    108 grams Brown Sugar, 108 grams Granulated Sugar
  3. Mash the bananas in a separate bowl.
    208 grams Banana
  4. In a medium bowl, combine the flour, both whole and blended oats, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt. Whisk until combined and not clumpy.
    320 grams All-Purpose Flour, 95 grams Oats, 55 grams Oats, 4 grams Baking Soda, 3 grams Baking Powder, 7 grams Fine Sea Salt, 1/8 tsp. Nutmeg, 1/8 tsp. Cinnamon
  5. Add the vanilla extract and mashed bananas to the butter and sugar mixture. Whip until combined.
    1 tsp. Vanilla Extract, 208 grams Banana
  6. Add the dry ingredients to the wet mixture. Fold and mix until combined. Place the dough in the fridge for at least 30 minutes to chill.
  7. Combine the cinnamon and white sugar in a small bowl for rolling the cookies.
    1/2 cup Granulated Sugar, 1 1/2 tsps. Cinnamon
Bake the Cookies:
  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
  2. Take the dough out of the fridge. Line two to three baking sheets with parchment or silicone baking mats. Scoop out the dough, roll in cinnamon sugar, and place on cookie sheets. I was able to bake 8 per sheet.
  3. Slightly flatten the dough balls by pressing on the top with your hands. Bake for 8 minutes, rotate the pan, and bake for an additional 2-3 minutes, until the edges are lightly golden. Leave to cool on the pan until fully cooled.

Notes

Notes:
Will save in an airtight container for up to 7 days. 
 
If you only have one banana, you may halve the recipe. It makes 2 dozen, so if you only want a dozen, halve it!