Frosted Banana Cookies Recipe (2024)

Use your ripe bananas to make these delicious frosted banana cookies. They are extremely moist, tasty, and will satisfy that sweet craving perfectly.

Frosted banana cookies are the bestest soft and chewy banana cookies you’ll ever have! They are like little fluffy banana bread cookies.

These cookies have quickly become a favorite family dessert. Plus, it is a fun and new way to use up those ripe bananas that no one is going to touch.

I always tend to buy too many bananas, like every week. You’d think I would learn, but now with this recipe, I don’t know that I’ll stop any time soon. Haha.

Since, there are always ripe bananas to be used, make sure you take a look at our Banana Pudding Trifle recipe, No Bake Banana Cream Pie Cake recipe, and an all time favorite, Banana Crumb Muffins!

Ingredients Needed For This Frosted Banana Cookies Recipe:

• Sugar
• Butter
• Shortening
• Vanilla extract
• Rippened bananas
• Eggs
• Buttermilk
• Baking soda
• Salt
• Flour
• Powdered sugar
• Milk

How To Make This Frosted Banana Cookies Recipe:

Begin making these fluffy cookies by preheating the oven to 350 degrees.

Then, in a medium mixing bowl, cream together then sugar, butter, shortening, and vanilla extract until everything is well combined and light and fluffy.

Once you have the right consistency, add in the mashed bananas and eggs and mix it all together.

Then, blend in the buttermilk with the dough mixture.

When all that is done, add in the baking soda, salt, and flour, and then mix it all together, just until everything is combined.

WARNING: Do not over mix the cookie dough! This is necessary to keep the cookies soft.

This batter will be sticky, so drop the cookies onto a greased cookie sheet by tablespoons.

Then, bake the cookies for 9-10 minutes or until you see the sides start to slightly brown.

While the cookies are baking, it is time to make the frosting.

In another medium sized bowl, combine the melted butter, mashed bananas, powdered sugar, milk and vanilla extract.

Mix it all together until they are combined and form the frosting consistency you like. Add more powdered sugar if it’s too soupy, and more milk if it is too thick.

Then, once the cookies are cooled, frost them and store them in an airtight container in the fridge!

To Make This Ripe Banana Recipe You Will Need:

1. Cookie sheet
2. Hand or stand mixer (THIS is a great hand mixer!)
3. Spatula
4. Spoon
5. Medium mixing bowl (2)

Save Your Money and Make Your Own Buttermilk

Did you know how simple and fast it is to make your own buttermilk. Forever, I used to buy the little container of buttermilk at the store when I knew I had a recipe that was going to need it.

It wasn’t until I forgot it one day that it went to the handy dandy Google search bar and searched if I could make it myself. Came to find out I could, and it was extremely simple.

Take a look at Tastes Better From Scratch’s blog on how to make buttermilk, and learn how to make your own! I have never bought a jug of buttermilk again!

Want More Easy Dinner Ideas?

Join our email list today and we will send you a FREE ebook of our favorite dinner recipes – plus we will send you recipes each week to help make your dinner planning easier!

Join today by CLICKING HERE.

Have you checked out our YouTube channel? We show you how to make our favorite recipes right in our own kitchens!

Our latest cookbook – Six Ingredients with Six Sisters’ Stuff – is all about using a few ingredients to make a delicious dinner! With only 6 ingredients or less per recipe in this cookbook, cooking has never been easier!

See Also

Coconut-Banana Pancakes RecipeBanana Bread Scones From Samantha Seneviratne Recipe on Food52My Best Vegetarian Shepherd's Pie RecipeStarbucks Banana Nut Bread - CopyKat Recipes

Whether you are a cook just starting out or a busy parent looking to save time in the kitchen, this cookbook is for you! It’s full of entrees, side dishes, and desserts.

We are so excited to share these recipes with you. Order your copy today!

SIX INGREDIENTS with Six Sisters’ Stuff <—– Click here to order!

Find More Fun Ways to Use Your Ripe Bananas:

• Layered Strawberry Jell-o Salad with Ripe Bananas Recipe
• Healthy Banana Walnut Muffins Recipe
• Easy Banana Cream Pie Recipe (with Nilla Wafer Crust)
• Sheet Pan Healthy Banana Cake Recipe
• Skinny Banana Cookies Recipe
• 3 Ingredient Banana Bread
• Frozen Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Bites

Serves: 24

Frosted Banana Cookies Recipe

5 from 1 vote

These Frosted Banana Cookies are my new favorite way to put my soft brown bananas to use. They are so easy to make and taste absolutely amazing. If you are in need of a quick and simple snack or dessert recipe, these are perfect.

Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 10 minutes mins

Total Time 25 minutes mins

PrintPin

Ingredients

Cookies

• 1 cup sugar
• ½ cup butter
• ½ cup shortening
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3 bananas ripened and mashed
• 2 eggs
• ½ cup buttermilk
• 1½ teaspoons baking soda
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 3¼ cups flour

Frosting

• 2 Tablespoons butter melted
• 2 bananas ripened and smashed
• 3 cups powdered sugar (more or less depending on the consistency that you like)
• 2 Tablespoons milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions

Cookies

• Heat oven to 350 degrees.

• Cream sugar, butter, shortening, and vanilla until light and fluffy.

• Add bananas and then mix in the eggs.

• Blend in buttermilk. Add the dry ingredients until just combined. Do not over-beat. It will be a sticky batter. Drop by tablespoons onto a greased cookie sheet.

• Bake for 9-10 minutes, until slightly golden.

• Cool completely.

Frosting

• Mix all ingredients together and spread over cooled cookies.

Notes

How to store these frosted banana cookies:

• The best way to store them is putting them in the fridge.
• We recommend placing them in an air tight storage container, and putting them in the fridge.
• If you aren’t going to eat them for more than a week, we recommend freezing them. Again the best way to freeze them is placing them in an airtight storage container and putting them in the freezer.

Nutrition

Calories: 264 kcal · Carbohydrates: 42 g · Protein: 3 g · Fat: 10 g · Saturated Fat: 4 g · Trans Fat: 1 g · Cholesterol: 27 mg · Sodium: 171 mg · Potassium: 122 mg · Fiber: 1 g · Sugar: 26 g · Vitamin A: 193 IU · Vitamin C: 2 mg · Calcium: 15 mg · Iron: 1 mg

Equipment

• Mixing Bowl (2)

• Hand or Stand Mixer

• Non-stick Cooking Spray

  See Also

  Peanut Butter Chocolate Banana Bread Recipe, Whats Cooking America

• Cookie Sheet

• spatula

Recipe Details

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Be sure to not miss another recipe! Follow Six Sisters’ Stuff on Instagram|Facebook|Pinterest|YouTube

If you made our recipe be sure to tag us on Instagram so we can see your hard work using #sixsistersstuff.