Banana Biscuits Recipe (Great For Little Kids)

These soft, chewy, sweet banana biscuits are a really great little snack. They take just a few minutes to get a batch in the oven and once in to bake, only take 8 minutes to cook. Get a batch of these ready for those after school 'starving kid' moments!

Banana Biscuits

Have some super ripe bananas sitting around on the kitchen worktop? Not sure what to do with them? Get a batch of these banana biscuits on the go!

I like to have some after school snacks about for when the kids pile off the school bus and burst through the front door declaring their hunger. It's moments like this I've discovered, that are the times when it's really easy to just grab them snacks from the store and not think too much about what's in them. So having some biscuits made ahead of time for them to help themselves to means there's less chance of reaching for the wrong thing.

These biscuits are a soft and chewy kinds cookie. They're perfectly strong enough to hold themselves together and be stored in a biscuit tin, but they're really soft when you bite into them so I like to make some of these for littler kids as they're perfect for little teeth and don't have the crunch little kids struggle with sometimes.

This recipe makes about 12 regular sized biscuits but if you're making them for tinies I'd recommend making them half the size, or even a third of the size so they're easier for little hands to hold.

I've added a few white choc chips onto these but that's of course totally optional, you could also put some chopped dates, raisins or sultanas in these, or pretty much any small chopped dried fruit you like. The banana taste comes through in these quite a lot, so if it goes with banana, try adding it into the recipe. I'd advise against adding anything with a lot of moisture in it or you'll upset the balance of the biscuit though.

Make sure to use bananas that are super ripe. The more ripe the banana, the sweeter it is and so you want to make sure you're adding as much sweetness as possible to your biscuits.

More Clean Eating Biscuits

• Old fashioned date cookies
• Cinnamon cookies
• Oatmeal choc chip cookies
• Easy pumpkin chocolate chip cookies
• Healthy biscuits for kids

What's Good About These Biscuits?

These biscuits are: Soft, chewy, sweet, banana-ry and are so moorish it's very hard to stop at one. Using coconut sugar for the sweetener gives them a vague caramel sort of taste. I'd say that apart from making a good after school snack, these also do very well with a cup of tea in the afternoon whilst you await the after school rush!

How Long Do These Last?

I keep these for 2-3 days in an airtight biscuit tin. I also make these in batches that I know won't hang about too long, mainly because they're none of the best ways I know to use up ripe bananas and it takes so little time to pop a batch of these in the oven, it's easy to make these as and when you want them.

On a side note, if you have a lot of bananas that need to be used up and too many to just make banana biscuits with, peel them, chop them up and put them in a ZipLoc bag and then freeze them. Then you have some almost instant ice cream when you fancy it!

Can You Freeze These?

You can indeed! Put them in a bag after they've cooked and cooled down and then you can leave them happily in the freezer for up to a month.

To defrost these take them out a couple of hours before you need them and let them defrost on a plate on the work top. I like to put them in a hot oven for 2 minutes to warm them through and help evaporate any moisture collected in them from being frozen.

How To Make Banana Biscuits

Ingredients

• 1 Cup Flour White spelt, wholemeal, einkorn or buckwheat
• ½ tsp Bicarbonate of soda
• ½ Cup Butter Melted
• ⅓ Cup Coconut sugar
• 1 Large Banana Very ripe, peeled, mashed
• 2 tbsp Choc chips
• 1 tsp Vanilla bean paste
• 1 tsp Cinnamon

Instructions

• Heat your oven up to 190° and line a baking tray with parchment paper
• In a bowl, melt the butter and then add the coconut sugar. Mix together until you have something that resembles a breadcrumb mix
• Add the mashed banana, vanilla and cinnamon and combine
• Stir in the flour and bicarbonate of soda until you have a mixture you can spoon out of the bowl
• Using 2 teaspoons, scoop a little out with one spoon and use the other to scrape the biscuit mix off the spoon until you have a tray full of biscuit dough mounds. The mix will flatten out in the oven
• Bake for 6 minutes and then check them, if still very soft give them another 2 minutes. These burn very fast so keep an eye on them!
• Transfer them to a wire cooling rack and allow to cool. They firm up as they cool down

Banana Biscuit Recipe