Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Cookies made with jaggery and ripe bananas are my favourite as they contain zero added sugar. My kids love homemade cookies, they have a really bad sweet tooth, as any other kid! A balanced diet for them is a cookie in each hand!!
So, I learnt baking and I learnt baking with whole wheat and natural sugar substitutes so that the cakes and cookies remain healthy. One of my best recipes is the jaggery chocolate chip cookies, we have baked it atleast a dozen times, shared it as playdate gifts to friends and family and have always received a warm feedback.
Hope you love your next batch of whole wheat banana & jaggery chocolate chip cookies with this recipe. All my recipes use whole wheat flour instead of refined maida & jaggery instead of refined sugar.
Jaggery Cookies Recipe
Preparation Time: 15 mins
Baking Time: 8 mins
Makes: A dozen cookies
Ingredients
- Whole wheat flour – 2 cup
- Baking soda – 3/4 tsp
- Baking powder – a pinch
- Salt – 1/8 tsp
- Butter – 1/2 cup
- Dark brown jaggery scraped– 1/4 cup
- Honey – ½ cup
- Egg – 1
- Chocolate bar – ½ cup
- Vanilla essence – 1 tsp
- Fully ripe banana – 2
- Cinnamon powder – ½ tsp Optional
- Milk Powder – ¼ cup Optional
Baking Tips
- Here is a basic baking tip, I always sieve all the dry ingredients together in a bowl. This adds air and fluffiness to the cookies.
- I use banana and honey as a natural sweetener which further reduces the quantity of jaggery.
- You can substitute the jaggery and honey with brown sugar if you like.
- Use fully ripe bananas as they are sweeter.
- Milk powder makes the cookies more dense and melt-in-the-mouth kinds.
Method
- Chop the chocolate bar into medium size chunks. You can also use readymade chocolate chunks but the cookie tastes better with bigger chunks of chocolate.
- Mix the whole wheat flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and milk powder as stated in Baking Tips.
- Cream the bananas and honey together and leave the butter at room temp for 30 mins, this makes it easy to knead.
- Mix together butter, jaggery, banana mash, vanilla essence into another bowl. Break the egg and mix slightly with a spoon. Donot use a blender.
- Now mix the dry and wet ingredients together by stirring gently.
- Make a dough and divide into lemon size balls, keep the surface rough.
- Grease the baking tray with oil and place the balls about 2 inches apart. Donot flatten the balls as the cookie will spread and flatten while baking.
- Preheat the oven and bake at 160C for 8 mins.
- Take the cookies out of the oven immediately to avoid getting burnt at the bottom.
- Cookies with jaggery may appear bit soft but they will harden on cooling down.
- Your homemade banana & jaggery whole wheat chocolate chip cookies are ready. Store it in an airtight container.
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Can we use jaggery instead of brown sugar in cookies?
As jaggery is more readily available at home, I often use jaggery instead of brown sugar. One simple tip to use jaggery in cookies is to scrape it very finely. Incase the jaggery is sticky, which often happens during winter months, I avoid using it.
Baking with jaggery TIP
Should you use scraped jaggery, let the jaggery melt in water to use liquid concoction or use jaggery powder for baking? Well, my jaggery cookies turn out best when I use powdered jaggery, you can easily buy it on Big Basket. You can use scraped jaggery incase powdered jaggery is not an option. Liquid jaggery concoction may yield a lumpy cookie.
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the cookies look amazing, we dont use egg and I have never tried honey, i normally use brown sugar or jaggery only. will try this way for sure.
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Thank you! Honey works really well, you’d love this guiltfree indulgence 🙂
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They look yumm and healthy too. Will suresh try them.
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These do look amazing! I had not heard of jaggery before – interesting!
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Thank you so much. Jaggery is much healthier alternative to sugar. You could also use brown sugar
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Can I replace the egg with another ingredient?
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So I have tried jaggery baking without egg and I wasnt too happy. The thumb rule is substitute any one or max two key ingredients, which here is jaggery for sugar and whole wheat for maida. So try getting maida in and taking egg out. Pls remember the baking powder quanitity will change too.
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oh this looks yummy to make for the kids. will try it out during the dusserah holidays that are starting today.
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What a fun way to kick in the holidays, do remember the jaggery baking tip
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The end result looks tempting. Will try these healthy cookies.
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I would love to bake these banana jaggery whole wheat chocolate cookies for my son, he loves homemade cookies and these are quite healthy too. Thanks for the recipe.
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He will be head over heels, just like mine were
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We had also started baking at home recently. I agree jaggery is an healthy alternative. Will try this next time when we bake cookies. And let you know how I like it.
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Ah, cant wait to know! Do read the tip about baking with jaggery.
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Such a quick and healthy recipe, i love baking and keep experimenting different recipes. have tried banana walnut endless times, shall try this one post Navratri.
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Thats really lovely to read
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This is so achievable step by step guide.. Baking overwhelms me generally.. It’s my sister’s birthday.. And I think I’m going to try this..
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What a perfect reason to take that first step. I was there 3 years back. Trust me baking is math, once you get the math right, read proportions, the rest just flow in 🙂
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They look absolutely delectable! Love how you have a section on tips and an FAQ.
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Oh these cookies sound super delicious!! I can’t wait to try them at home. Thanks for sharing all the extra tips too!
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I would love to try this recipe but being a vegetarian I will have to find a replacement for the egg. But the combination of wheat and banana is worth the try.
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Looks yummy 😋. Will try this one for my kids.
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Wow! Seems such a healthy and delicious dessert :D.
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Wow…this recipe is super tempting. My kids love cookies and I am surely gonna try this one.
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I am definitely trying this cookie recipe. The texture in the picture is amazing.
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These look delicious, Mandavi. I’ll surely try my hand at these.
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For a diabetic like me who also has a sweet tooth whole wheat banana & jaggery chocolate chip cookies seems to be an ideal dish. I will definitely try out this recipe sometime.
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Baking with jaggery is something new for me. Loved the recipe, going to try it soon:)
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Any egg replacement? I would try this delicious recipe
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Hey! This one is with egg, you could replace whole wheat with maida and then egg with milk. They turn out fab
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This looks wow. Will definitely try it. Thanks for sharing.
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I have never tried my hands on baking but the whole idea of baking at home with such healthy ingredients make me want to try baking. This is a very nice recipe and I am sure quite healthy too. Will surely try and make this.
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This is such a cute and simple recipe. You’ve explained all rhe steps so clearly.
Is egg mandatory? Can i substitute it with something else?
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I make whole wheat banana bread with jaggery but never tried cookies. Will try your recipe too!
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It looks like a delicious, healthy recipe! Thanks for sharing 🙂
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Looks to be a great recipe that even my son will love to munch on. I am trying this recipe for his sake very soon.
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I really trying out such healthy recipes. This really looks tempting. Thanks for sharing it.
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The cookies seems to be delicious. Definitely trying this for my daughter.
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Looks fantastic. I often subsitute sugar with jaggery powder while cooking.
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Both banana and jaggery are my favourite. Love to try this yummy#dewreads
#MyFriendAlexa recipe.
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It’s been close to 1.5 years of me quitting refined sugar & I also have incorporated jaggery or other natural sweeteners like dates into making my snacks & desserts. This is almost how I make my cookies & I agree with your tip about working with jaggery to make cookies. Always works!
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We often make banana bread with maida. Shall try this one the next time.
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wow this looks so amazing. I am trying this over the weekend!
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Wow.. These cookies looks delicious… And quite simple and quick to make. Thanks for the tip too. Will try your recipe for sure.
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This is a healthy cookie recipe.
Nice combo of jaggery , banana and wheat 🙂
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I’m going to give this a try! I had learnt a whole wheat jaggery cake recently, so I’m kinda confident with this combination.
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They look yummy and really tempting. With whole wheat and jaggery, they sure are a healthy combo and seem a fun snack for kids. Will surely try them. #PraGunReads #MyFriendAlexa #Blogchatter
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Thank you for this awesome recipe…I have saved to and I am surely going to make it soon 🙂
I also bale a little bit with wheat..especially a carrot cinnamon cake is my favourite
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yummilicious they look!!!
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I guess after the Banana Bread fad, this is what I need to try! Plus being whole wheat flour based, this is healthy too. Thanks for sharing.
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