Banana Cake Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

Name: Banana Cake Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 18
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1/2 cup Butter (Sweet Cream Salted); 1 cup Granulated Sugar; 2 Eggs; 1 teaspoon Vanilla; 1/2 teaspoon Cinnamon; 2 1/4 cups All-Purpose Flour; 1 teaspoon Baking Soda; 1/2 teaspoon Salt; 4 medium Mashed Bananas (equivalent of 1 cup); The Best Cream Cheese Frosting; Decorating Bag; Wilton 2D Decorating Tip; Handful of chopped Pecans or Walnuts

posted by Nancy on February 28, 2018 (updated 3/30/21) // 1 Comment

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These Banana Cake Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting taste just like a Banana Cake topped with a yummy cream cheese frosting. Your family will beg you to make these again and again!

Who doesn’t love Banana Cake? Not us, that’s for sure. It is one of our all-time favs. But sometimes you don’t have enough time to bake a cake. When those times come we advise you to reach for this recipe for Banana Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting. If we don’t say so ourselves, this recipe is a keeper. Moist and cakey cookies teaming with Bananas covered in creamy delicious Cream Cheese Frosting. Make a batch of these cookies today. You’ll thank us. We promise!

In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs and vanilla.

Mash the bananas and mix the bananas into the batter.

Mix in the baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Mix well. Add the flour and mix until combined.

This is a wet dough so we used a spoon to drop approximately 2 oz. of dough onto the cookie sheet as shown above.

Bake the cookies in a 375 degree oven for 8-10 minutes or until light brown around the edges. Here is what the cookies look like just out of the oven – cakey, just like banana bread.

Make up a batch of our yummy The Best Cream Cheese Frosting. It is the perfect topping for the Banana Cake Cookies. You can find the recipe and detailed instructions on how to make this frosting right here. You will also need a handful of chopped pecans or walnuts.

Fill a decorating bag with our The Best Cream Cheese Frosting and a Wilton 2D decorating bag. Press the tip straight down on the cookie and make a flower. Now make a ring of Cream Cheese Frosting flowers around the edge of the Banana Cake Cookie. Super easy … anyone can do it. Finally add a small piece of pecan or walnut to the center of the frosting flower to add a little crunch and pizzazz!

That’s all there is to it! So pretty! So yummy! And did we mention that these cookies taste just like Banana Cake?

These Banana Cake Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting are a super yummy treat and fancy enough for a special occasion. We hope you enjoy them as much as our family did!