Description
These Breakfast Cookies are a nutritious and delicious way to start your day. Packed with wholesome ingredients like bananas, oats, nuts, and dried fruit, these cookies are perfect for a quick and easy breakfast on-the-go.
Ingredients
Scale
For the cookies:
- 2 ripe bananas (mashed)
- 1½ cups old-fashioned rolled oats
- ½ cup almond butter
- ¼ cup honey or maple syrup
- ¼ cup ground flaxseed
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ⅓ cup mini chocolate chips
- ⅓ cup chopped walnuts or pecans
- ¼ cup dried cranberries or raisins
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- optional 2 tablespoons chia seeds or hemp hearts
Instructions
- Preheat the oven: Preheat the oven to 350°F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Mix wet ingredients: In a large bowl, mash the bananas until smooth. Add the oats, almond butter, honey or maple syrup, ground flaxseed, cinnamon, vanilla, and salt. Stir until well combined.
- Add mix-ins: Fold in the chocolate chips, nuts, and dried fruit.
- Bake: Scoop the dough into 2-tablespoon portions on the baking sheet. Flatten slightly and bake for 12–15 minutes until golden.
- Cool: Allow to cool on the baking sheet before transferring to a wire rack.
Notes
- These cookies are great for meal prep and can be stored in an airtight container for up to 5 days or frozen for up to 2 months.
- You can substitute peanut butter or sunflower seed butter if needed.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Category: Breakfast
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 160
- Sugar: 9g
- Sodium: 50mg
- Fat: 8g
- Saturated Fat: 1g
- Unsaturated Fat: 6g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 19g
- Fiber: 3g
- Protein: 4g
- Cholesterol: 0mg
