MidKnight Snacks

MidKnight Snacks: Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

The best delicious, quick and easy cookie recipe.

Anika Sanka, Co-Editor-in-Chief

November 17, 2025

The inside of a banana oatmeal chocolate chip cookie.

Sitting in your fruit bowl are a couple sad lonely overripe bananas. Then obviously the only course of action is to get out the pans and ingredients to make the usual: banana bread. It’s a tale as old as time. Unless what if I told you there’s a different delicious treat that only requires one banana minimum and takes 20 minutes to make including a 10 minute bake time. The answer to this dilemma is to make a delectable batch of banana oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.

I’m not saying I hate banana bread, it’s definitely a classic for a reason, but baking bread of any kind can be time consuming and faulty. Cookies are so much easier in my opinion having a much higher success rate and short baking time of only 10 minutes. These cookies are genuinely mouth watering and I made them with my friend for a movie night, and they were quick, easy and fun to make. They’re also a touch healthier than the usual chocolate chip cookies as you use bananas, oats and maple syrup for ingredients instead of artificial sweeteners. Use this recipe inspired from Broma Bakery to get the best results.

1 banana (about 110g)
1/2 cup (113g) melted butter
3/4 cup (150g) light brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp (4g) vanilla
1/2 tbsp molasses (maple syrup is great alternate for this)
1 1/4 cup (160g) flour
1/2 tsp (3g) baking soda
1 tsp (3g) cinnamon
1/2 tsp (3g) salt
2/3 cup (113g) chocolate chunks/chips
3/4 cup (60g) oats

Mash banana and add in melted butter, sugar, egg yolk and vanilla. In another bowl, whisk together flour, salt, baking soda and cinnamon. Fold in the chocolate and let chill in the fridge for up to an hour for ultimate results. Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes. These are soft cookies so let cool a bit on the tray before transferring/eating. Enjoy!

So next time when you’re left with a couple of overripe bananas opt to make a batch of banana oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Enjoy warm from the oven, share with someone you love or save them for the week… if they last that long.

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Anika Sanka, Content Co-Editor-in-Chief

Anika Sanka is a senior at Robinson High School and is the co-editor-in-chief (EIC) of the Knight Writers. This is her third year on staff. In her freshman year, even though she wanted to be on newspaper, she chose to do an AP elective. The following year, she joined the newspaper after being recommended to it by her cousin, Vikram Sambasivan, a former EIC of the Knight Writers. “I really wanted to do an elective that wasn’t an AP just to boost my GPA, but something I could actually do something in. I also wanted to improve my writing,” Sanka said. Being an EIC this year, Sanka has many goals for the newspaper as a whole. One of them is to earn an All-Florida award from the Florida Scholastic Press Association. “I think we are very capable of it. I’m honestly so happy I am EIC now,” Sanka said. “I now have the position and ability to implement things so we can be a really be a well-structured newspaper and win these awards.” Outside of newspaper, Sanka enjoys spending time playing sports. She is on the varsity track team, but she also likes to find time to play other sports as well. “In middle school, I did rowing for a while; that was fun, but I just wasn’t the best at it. I always found my way back to running. I love track. I love our community, and I love the team. I’ve also been dancing for a while. I like doing sports and activities like this just for fun,” Sanka said. When Sanka isn’t running or working, she enjoys spending free time watching 2000s movies with friends. In addition, Sanka doesn’t have a particular favorite music artist, but her favorite music genres are pop, rock and indie. “[My favorite movie is] ‘She’s the Man.’ It’s a 2000s movie, and it has Amanda Bines in it, and I just love her movies. The 2000s are just so good, and they are comfort movies,” she said. Being a senior, Sanka wants to go to Emory University in Atlanta or the University of Florida. She wants to study law or journalism “It [Emory University] is beautiful, it has nature, and cool extracurriculars. I want to go into law or journalism; something in the English and communications field. They have cool political science programs which I want to go into,” Sanka said. (Profile by Allison Bartlett)