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Coconut Flour Chocolate Chip Banana Cookies

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These Coconut Flour Chocolate Chip Banana Cookies have crispy edges and a chewy center. The banana replaces having too many eggs in this cookie recipe, which is a common problem with coconut flour baked goods. The last thing you want is a cookie that tastes eggy. The banana also adds a fun flavor twist with the chocolate chips.
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I’ve tried repeatedly in the past to make a coconut flour cookie I loved but I usually ended up with something too dry and not worthy of sharing.

Well, I really love this cookie!  I have made batch after batch until I got it just right.  The problem with coconut flour cookies is that coconut flour needs a lot of eggs or some kind of liquid.

I found the large amount of eggs and lack of proper cookie texture hard to develop a coconut flour cookie recipe.

Bananas act as an egg replacer in many recipes which ended up being my secret weapon in this recipe.  Banana also eliminated the need for an additional sweetener.

By slowly baking these coconut flour chocolate chip banana cookies you get a nice crispy cookie outside with a slight cookie chewiness.

I hope you’ll fall in love with this coconut flour cookie chocolate chip banana cookie as much as I have.

I also feel this recipe would make a good candidate for a chia egg replacer.  If you try to make it with an egg replacer, please let me know the results.

Also checkout my Double Chocolate Chip Coconut Flour Cookies, Lemon Coconut Macaroons, and Paleo Strawberry Breakfast Cookies.
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COCONUT FLOUR CHOCOLATE CHIP BANANA COOKIES

Author: Carol Lovett
Yield: Makes 18 medium sized cookies.

Coconut Flour Chocolate Chip Banana Cookie Ingredients

How to Make Coconut Flour Banana Cookies

  1. Preheat the oven to 325 F. Line a baking pan with parchment paper.
  2. Using a mixing machine combine the banana and the egg. Slowly add the coconut oil (coconut oil must not be hot or it will cook the egg. You just need to the coconut oil slightly warmed enough to mix smoothly). Add the coconut flour, vanilla, cream of tartar, baking soda and sea salt. Mix until smooth. Lastly add the chocolate chips.
  3. Using a spoon, drop 1 inch balls of batter onto the baking tray leaving space between each cookie. Use the back of the spoon to smooth the cookies to a flat cookie shape. *The cookies will not naturally flatten, you must do this manually.
  4. Bake for 40 minutes.

Notes

Never tested recipe with a frozen ripe banana.

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Yield: Makes 18 medium sized cookies.

Coconut Flour Chocolate Chip Banana Cookies

Coconut Flour Chocolate Chip Banana Cookies

Ingredients

  • 1 fresh ripe large banana, (200 grams)
  • 1 large egg
  • 2 tbsp extra virgin coconut oil, (slightly warmed for easier mixing. Room temperature)
  • 3 tbsp coconut flour, sifted
  • 1 tbsp vanilla extract
  • ½ tsp cream of tartar
  • 1/8 tsp baking soda
  • 1/8 tsp sea salt
  • 1/8 -1/4 cup of chocolate chips

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 325 F. Line a baking pan with parchment paper.
  2. Using a mixing machine combine the banana and the egg. Slowly add the coconut oil (coconut oil must not be hot or it will cook the egg. You just need to the coconut oil slightly warmed enough to mix smoothly). Add the coconut flour, vanilla, cream of tartar, baking soda and sea salt. Mix until smooth. Lastly add the chocolate chips.
  3. Using a spoon, drop 1 inch balls of batter onto the baking tray leaving space between each cookie. Use the back of the spoon to smooth the cookies to a flat cookie shape. *The cookies will not naturally flatten, you must do this manually.
  4. Bake for 40 minutes.

Notes

Never tested recipe with a frozen ripe banana.

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45 Comments

  1. Is it really just 3 tbsp of coconut flour, this does not sound like very much so just thought I’d check. Look forward to making these. Thanks for the great recipes you have here, have been looking for some treats for a while now.

    1. I’m assuming you have never baked with coconut flour. Yes, the amount is correct. When baking with coconut flour you use very little of it.

  2. 40 minutes to bake cookies???? this recipe really looks interesting and i would love to bake them..but 40 minutes to bake cookies? i wanted to make sure this is correct..thank you,

    1. Yes, they take 40 minutes to bake. You need to slowly bake the banana batter to get a crisp outside. Remember these are not made with regular flour so don’t rely on regular ways of baking for gluten free baked goods.

  3. Hi! I love your website 🙂 I know these aren’t low carb, but how could I reduce the sugar from the chocolate chips? Wondering if I could use slivered almonds instead… thank you!

    1. You make your own chocolate chips. Use bittersweet baker’s chocolate and add enough sweetener to you liking, melt the chocolate, add the sweetener (I use raw honey), mix and spread on a flat surface then freeze. When frozen, chop into chocolate chip size and bake with them. They store fine. Guess what, these cookies are low carb. 1 large banana is about 31 carbs. This batch makes 18 cookies, which means about 2 carb per cookie. I’d call that low carb. Don’t be afraid of using real food ingredients. Your body recognizes real food, it doesn’t recognize fake food.

      1. Thank you thank you thank you! I am very new to this (only a few weeks in) and have really enjoyed trying new recipes and actually cooking again. It’s amazing how much better I feel already…

        1. If you’re new to baking gluten free items don’t go crazy baking stuff. Give your body some time to heal. Coconut flour is very high in fiber and can cause digestive issues in people who eat too much of it. Good luck on your journey and it’s awesome to hear you are feeling better!!!

          1. Right now I’m only experimenting with sweets on the weekends 🙂 Usually I only need a little bit to get me through and over whatever craving I’m having. Thank you for the warning about the coconut flour!

    1. Oh and a special thanks for giving instructions on how to make chocolate chips in the comments. We’ve been on GAPS for a year and a half, with no chocolate chips. Can’t wait to eat these!

      1. Great! I’ve been researching GAPS to better understand what is on the illegal list and what is not. There seems to be so many different versions of what is GAPS legal and what is not.

        1. Generally, the SCD legal/illegal list (you can google for it) is pretty much the same. The best lists are in the GAPS diet book, but it is a bit high priced for someone who is not serious about trying the diet. The GAPS Diet can be complicated, and there is a some misinformation out there about it on various blogs. The sites by Dr. Natasha Campbell McBride are most authoritative. The Gaps Guide blog and print materials by Baden Lashkov are also solid.

          1. Thank you Eileen!!! I want to properly tag recipes as “GAPS” if they are GAPS friendly but some GAPS blogs use cocoa powder, some say you can’t…

  4. Thank you for sharing this, I have been trying to find a healthier chocolate chip cookie recipe to make. My husband loves to take cookies in is lunch and we have tried so many recipes, it’s not even funny. I can’t wait to try this, I think he is going to love them!

    1. Thanks. Some people tried it and didn’t like the banana taste so I want to point out if you try it, it is a banana based cookie and will taste like bananas and chocolate chips.

    1. No supplement for tartar. If you skip the tartar you will get a different texture. The cream of tartar and baking soda used together is a grain free baking powder. Baking powder usually contains: cream of tartar + baking soda + cornstarch (the cornstarch is used to keep the powder dry when storing). You could try another acid like vinegar or lemon juice to activate the baking soda. I don’t like adding more liquid to a coconut flour baked goods because coconut flour is very sensitive to any extra liquid.

      1. Yeah I was gonna ask the same thing. Cream of tartar isnt allowed on the GAPS diet. I have the book. And cocoa is allowed once digestive issues have gone away.

  5. Awesome recipe!! I add more chocolate chips because my boys love chocolate and it is a HUGE hit at my house! Thank you for posting this wonderful recipe, first coconut flour cookie that isn’t super dry and chalky!

  6. thank you for this recipe! The cookies were delicious & I did use a frozen (defrosted) ripe banana. They were so yummy my whole family liked them!

  7. Thank you for this recipe! I’ve been baking with almond flour for a while, and recently decided to try coconut flour because of the price. Unfortunately did not realize it has very different properties, and my usual recipe was barely even damp. Kept adding eggs and coconut oil until it resembled dough, but still came out very, very dry. I’m going to try these when I get home, and hope for better results. Plus banana= Yay!

  8. These are great! Lovely light banana and coconut flavor with the chocolate. Recipe works just as described, especially grateful for the tip to shape the cookie on the pan before baking. Mine came out a bit fluffier than the ones in the photo above, I did keep the temp very low and took them out slightly before 40 mms. I’ve been searching for a gf/df cookie with coconut flour and this hits the mark!

  9. Hi, I was just wondering if you could replace the banana with something else… perhaps greek yogurt, for a more traditional tasting chocolate chip cookie?

    Thank you!

    1. The banana acts as an egg replacer. You would need to use something that can bind the ingredients together.

  10. Hi, I just tried this recipe. Glad others asked my same questions re: amt of flour etc… BUT my batter was quite wet. I did not have to push each cookie down the just spread out a bit on their own. I followed the exact recipe…even measured 200grams of banana. Why is my texture so wet or is it supposed to be wet? They are cooking now. We shall see…. D

    1. You have to flatten every cookie. If you don’t flatten them they won’t crisp up in the oven.

    2. Hi!
      Just in response to why your’s was so wet, I think it is because you used 200 grams of banana and not A 200 gram banana. Lol, so with the peel the banana should be around 200 grams, not 200 full grams of banana. I think I had closer to 140 grams or so of banana. Does that make sense? Anyway, I think that may have been your problem because mine worked well with the amount I used.

  11. Update: Well cookies just came out. Some flat some not. But the texture is like a sponge. Honestly? Is this how they are supposed to be. By the sounds of the description they should have been pretty close to the real thing..considering the alterations. I have just wasted a good deal of ingredients. I should have known better…. not worth it. 🙁

  12. You have to whip the egg whites when making the muffins. If you don’t you won’t get any rise. The cookies are not going to taste like a chocolate chip cookie because it’s made with banana. The flavour would be bananas and chocolate.

  13. I just made these and have already eaten half a batch! I can’t believe how good they are considering they are not made with sugar, butter, or regular old flour. I don’t follow any restrictive diets; I just wanted to cut back on refined sugar and try coconut flour/ oil recipes. Chocolate chip cookies are my favorite, and I will make these again. My oven may run hot, but the cookies were done at about 20 minutes and did burn on the bottom. I’ll keep an eye on the second batch. Thanks for the recipe!

    1. I made this recipe using a gas oven so that can affect the baking times.

  14. I made these without the chocolate chips and the cookie had a “tart” banana taste…not sure why. I used 2 small ripe bananas equaling 200 grams..anyone else had this issue?

    1. It’s a banana cookie so it’s going to taste like bananas.

  15. hi can’t wait to try. Can u convert grams for us mathematically challenged lol thanks

  16. I did not have coconut oil, so I used regular evoo. They did turn out spongy but seem to be how the recipe says they should. Is this an appropriate substitute? or should i have used something else? This was also my first experience cooking with coconut flour.

  17. Hi! I am loving your site! My son has EOE and is on an extremely limited diet due to his allergies. At the moment he is able to eat white potato, apple, carrots, banana and coconut. we can use additives as long as they don’t have his allergens. I’m thinking these cookies could be altered just slightly to fit his needs. He is allergic to eggs, so I was wondering if there was another option to use in place of that. As you said, banana is usually a substitution, but you already have banana in it. Do you know of a way to make these egg free? Thank you so much!

    1. You can try using 1/4 cup of banana per egg. Coconut flour is tricky to use and might not work well if you replaced the egg with banana.

  18. These are delicious! I was sure I hated coconut flour, but these seem to have the perfect ratio of ingredients. They’re so moist that I may even bake them longer next time!

  19. Hey carol! I was wondering if I need to use the freezer method-same with your double choc cookies (absolutely delicious!) and how long do these last?

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