Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk Cookie Stuffed Campfire Bananas.
Who doesn’t love a good campfire?
Growing up, many a summer nights were filled with campfires in the backyard, hanging out with cousins and toasting marshmallow over the open flames. Those are some of my best summer memories! Nonetheless, I don’t think I ever actually had a campfire banana.
Like I don’t think those were a thing eight or so years ago?? I only recently began hearing about them, but when I did, I thought they sounded kind of amazing.
The idea of warm bananas, chocolate and marshmallows sounds pretty killer to me. All you need is some graham crack crumbs and you have a s’more banana! Yeah!
However, me being me, I just couldn’t be THAT simple and merely tell you guys how to add chocolate and marshmallows to a banana. SO, I am going to tell you guys how to add oatmeal cookies…loaded with chocolate chunks…to a banana. If you want, you can still add marshmallows, although surprisingly, I did not, since they somewhat mistakenly turned out to be a fairly healthy dessert/snack.
What, wait?!?
I know, they look like chocolate goodness, but after just typing up the recipe, I realized that these are practically healthy. While, minus that butter, but you can make these with butter or coconut oil. I have tried both and both work great, the butter just makes them well, buttery and delicious, but the coconut is honestly so good too!
Actually, you could even make these bananas for breakfast too, with like a scoop of yogurt. Yes, those would be so yummy!
But today I’m feeling more like I need a chocolatey pick me up. I really want to celebrate what’s left of summer and these deliciously stuffed bananas are one of the best reasons I can think of to get together with family and friends, have a little bonfire and semi indulge! Seriously, sounds like such fun doesn’t it?
So on to one of my little random tangents – can you guys believe it’s already the last Tuesday of July?? The next time Tuesday will be in July will be 2016. Just typing that out scares the heck out of me.
I felt like I was literally just telling you guys about my fourth of July and now we are getting ready to enter into August, and little miss Asher is getting ready to turn SEVEN at the end of the month! Wait, NOOOO – she can’t be seven already. That little girl is going to be all grown up before I know it!
Speaking of her birthday, I SO badly want to get her T-Swift tickets (she’s coming to Denver the first weekend in September), but of course they are already sold out. Bummer 🙁 That little girl is the biggest T-Swift fan, so I might start checking eBay and the likes. I feel like there has got to be tickets somewhere, I mean she is playing two shows at the Pepsi Center in Denver for crying out loud.
So aside from my Taylor Swift no-ticket problem, and the fact that I am incredibly scared the world is moving too fast, I am so, so, so happy to share these oatmeal chocolate chunk cookie stuffed campfire bananas with you today.
I feel like they are the perfect thing for all of our jam-packed last days of summer fun. They’re quick, painless to prepare and yeah, they are crazy awesome too!
Do you see all that chocolate?
Never, never go lite on the chocolate. Oh, and I highly recommend that scoop of ice cream. Warm bananas + warm oatmeal cookies + cold ice cream = best summertime treat ever!
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Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk Cookie Stuffed Campfire Bananas.
By halfbakedharvest
Course: Dessert, Snack
Cuisine: American
Keyword: banana, bbq, campfire, chocolate, cookie
The idea of warm bananas, chocolate and marshmallows sounds pretty killer to me. All you need is some graham crack crumbs and you have a s'more banana! Yeah!
Ingredients
- 3 teaspoons chia seeds or ground flax + 1 tablespoon water optional
- 1 1/4 cups old fashioned oats use gluten free if needed
- 1 cup almond meal may sub all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cup pure maple syrup may sub brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 8 tablespoons unsalted butter softened (If vegan use coconut oil)
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 4-8 ounces semi-sweet or dark chocolate chopped
- 4 ripe but firm bananas
- Ice cream for serving
Instructions
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Preheat your grill to medium high heat.
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In a small bowl, combine the chia seeds with the water. Let the mixture sit 5-10 minutes or until it has thickened and is goopy.
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To a large mixing bowl, combine the oats, almond meal, maple syrup, baking soda, salt, coconut oil and vanilla. Add the chia seed mixture and then mix well making sure the oats are well moistened. Stir in the chocolate chips.
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Slice the peel of the banana from stem to bottom, while also slicing the banana inside lengthwise. Basically, cut the banana in half except for the tip.
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Carefully open the banana just wide enough to place the oatmeal mix inside the peel with the banana. Stuff the cookie dough inside the banana allowing some of the dough to pop out of the peel.
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Wrap the bananas with aluminum foil and place on the grill or directly in the coals of a fire. Leave in long enough to melt the chocolate and cook the cookie, about 8-10 minutes. During the last few minutes of cooking, I like to unwrap the foil a bit and continue cooking the bananas until the top of the oatmeal gets crisp.
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Unwrap the bananas, open the peels wide, add a scoop of ice cream and eat with a spoon.
Recipe Notes
*These bananas can also be baked in a 375 degree oven for 10-15 minutes. **The bananas can be prepped a few hours in advance and then baked as directed.
No seriously.
I always wonder where you get your ideas. These campfire bananas not only look great but they must taste wonderful (and I’m obviously gonna try it).
Your creativity never cease to amaze me !
Thank you so much!!
I was wondering about how to cook it in the oven? What temp and how long?
Any suggestions
Thank you
At the end of the recipe she includes instructions for the oven (easy to miss it). I didn’t see that the first time I read the recipe either.
*These bananas can also be baked in a 375 degree oven for 10-15 minutes.
Hey Andrew, I actually give directions for this in the recipe, but just bake the bananas in a 375 degree oven for 10-15 minutes.
Hope you love them!
When do you add the chocolate chips?
Sorry about that, I fixed the recipe. Hope you love these!!
These look awesome Tieghan! Can’t wait to try them!
Thanks Kathy!
Oh man, these look so good!!!
Thanks Laura! Hope you had a great day! 🙂
LOVED your pasta!
Uh, this is GENIUS! Stuffing bananas with cookies?!?!?! I HAVE to try this ASAP!
Thanks Cassie! Hope you had a great Tuesday!!
Wow these look so interesting and yummy! Also your food photography is amazing. I spent like an hour looking all through your site yesterday, and absolutely love it!
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Haha! Thank you so much, Madeline! That really means a lot! Hope you are having a great week!
I wish I’d had these when I went camping as a kid. I’ll have to make up for that by trying these soon. They look great!
Thanks Amanda!
these sound divine! I just know there’s a few variations on the theme with peaches, blueberry, cherry, cobbler/pie like Frankenstein mash ups….
Oh whoa! That sounds awesome!
Thanks Amy!
Campfire BANANAS?! What!! I absolutely love this, Tieghan! What a creative idea! We have a fire pit at my parents house but we’ve rarely progressed past the classic marshmallow s’mores. This is definitely a step up from my childhood camping days! 🙂
Oh perfect! Hope you all love these! Thanks Sarah!
Oh this looks incredible! I’ve seen campfire bananas before, but nothing as fun and exciting as this! Since I’m not a huge fan of s’mores, this would be the perfect campfire treat. Or Tuesday treat 🙂
xx Sydney
Thanks Sydney! Hope you had a great Tuesday with a little treat too! 🙂
These look soooo good! And before the ice cream- dare we say- like breakfast! Who’s to say you can’t have ice cream for breakfast when you’re camping, though!?
♥ Heather & Melissa
Um yes! Breakfast for sure! 🙂
Thanks!
My lunch at school is usually a banana with peanut butter.
This looks so much better.
Oh man, just a banana!! Well, bananas are delicious! 🙂
Thank you so much!
You’re making me drool. And I’m at work. #fail
But seriously, this looks amazing!
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haha! Thank you so much!! Hope you had a great day!
We are going riding in the mountains this w/e~now I know what to make! I’m going w/ the banana makes it healthy theory. Keep the simple but yummy campfire meals comin, much appreciated!
Thanks Sarah! Hope you guys have fun and you enjoy the bananas! 🙂
What a great idea! I love the warm, soft banana together with the crunchy cookie and cold ice cream. Sounds like a glorious palate explosion! Also, the tables/napkins/forks in the photos are great.
Thanks so much, Michael! Also, glad you like the photos…I actually disliked them so this make me happy! 🙂
This just screams summer. Anything s’more like makes me very, very happy.
As Gwen Stefani would say (PG-rated version): This “stuff” is bananas…B-A-N-A-N-A-S!
I need to bring something to a Summer Thanksgiving dinner and I don’t know if I want to do this recipe, the cherry cobbler with the vanilla biscuits, or the clafoutis! They all look so awesome.
You keep posting these delicious-looking recipes and I really need to be eating healthier :-(. I’m slowly but surely gaining some weight. This is why inviting people over for dinner is good…then you don’t eat it all yourself! At least that’s what I tell myself… :-/
Also…I made your creamy caprese quinoa bake tonight (again) and posted the result on twitter. Everyone enjoyed! It is also pretty diabetic-friendly which was nice for one of our guests.
Made this tonight (single serving) and it was good! I’ve had a stressful week and this definitely helped me relax. Made a couple small changes: used up a (thawed) frozen banana — this made things a bit watery but it still turned out delicious. Because I did the brown sugar option, I used a couple tablespoons of milk and 1 tablespoon of butter so that the dough had enough moisture and it was slightly healthier. I used chocolate chips instead of chopped up chocolate. Yummy! Thanks for the recipe. I’ll definitely make it again.
Hi Amber!! I am beyond excited you loved this and it help you relaxed!! YAY!! Thanks!
The first picture seems so messy…so many delicious things in there! I love it!!! 🙂
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These look amazing!!!
Try Stub Hub for a T-swift ticket! I got my boyfriend a ticket for a sold out show on there recently. Then you don’t have to deal with meeting anyone to buy their ticket etc. 🙂
So fun and so creative, these would be such a hit at any summer event!
I need to have a campfire just to make these yummy treats! Time passes way to quickly. It’s scary!
It is scary!
Thank you so much, laura!
Nice site you’ve gotten right here
Thanks!
I don’t tolerate chia seeds well, any suggestions for substitutions? I’m trying to figure out how to adapt your amazing recipes to be relatively low FODMAP. Thank you!
Hi Brenna,
You can use flax seeds in place of the chia seeds. I hope you love the recipe, please let me know if you have any other questions! xTieghan