Banana Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies – Eat Your self Skinny

Chewy and scrumptious Banana Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies simply made with easy, healthful components, studded with raisins and naturally sweetened for the right wholesome cookie you possibly can take pleasure in for breakfast or function an after college snack!

Who knew you can take pleasure in cookies for breakfast!  These chewy banana oatmeal breakfast cookies are made with healthful components, are naturally sweetened and provide you with all the nice and cozy flavors of banana bread, however in a scrumptious cookie type.  Your youngsters will completely devour these (mine certain did!) they usually make a wholesome after college snack or dessert.  These banana oatmeal cookies are gluten-free, dairy-free egg-free and refined sugar-free!

Why You’ll Love this Recipe

• These cookies are moist, chewy and so scrumptious!
• Good recipe to make use of up these ripe bananas sitting in your kitchen.
• Your youngsters will love them!
• Nice for breakfast, after college snack or wholesome dessert.

Substances You’ll Want

• bananas – be sure to make use of tremendous ripe bananas to get probably the most sweetness out of them.
• applesauce – I used unsweetened applesauce which takes the place of oil on this recipe and retains the cookies good and moist.  For those who don’t have applesauce, be at liberty to make use of extra mashed banana.
• honey – we solely want about 2 tablespoons of honey in these cookies to sweeten them because the bananas act as a pure sweetener already!  You possibly can additionally use maple syrup and even brown sugar.
• rolled oats – healthful complete grain quaint oats (I used gluten-free oats) make these cookies deliciously chewy!  You may also use fast oats if that’s all you could have available, however they gained’t have that nice chewy texture that we love in a cookie.
• oat flour – you’ll solely want two tablespoons of oat flour in these cookies and you’ll both make your individual (see my directions beneath) or buy from the shop.  You possibly can additionally use complete wheat flour or all-purpose flour.
• baking powder – this acts as a leavening agent to assist these cookies bake up properly make them chewy (you can additionally use baking soda).
• vanilla extract – you’ll want one teaspoon vanilla extract and this offers these cookies a lift of taste!
• cinnamon + salt – the cinnamon provides a heat, cozy taste to those cookies whereas the salt punches up the style.
• raisins – you can additionally use chocolate chips or chopped nuts comparable to walnuts, pecans or almonds.

Make Banana Oatmeal Cookies

1. Preheat oven.  Preheat oven to 350 levels and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. Combine components.  Utilizing a blender or a hand-held mixer, mix bananas, applesauce, honey and vanilla, mixing till clean.  If you need small chunks of banana within the cookies, be at liberty to only combine the moist components by hand.  In a big mixing bowl, stir collectively the rolled oats, flour, cinnamon, baking powder and salt. Pour the banana combination in with the dry components and blend effectively to mix then fold within the raisins.
3. Assemble cookies.  Utilizing a small cookie scoop, drop 1-inch cookie dough balls onto a ready baking sheet and flatten the tops a bit with the again finish of a spoon, ensuring the cookies are nonetheless intact.  You need to find yourself with about 16 cookies.
4. BAKE!  Bake the cookies at 350 levels for 15 to twenty minutes till cookies are golden and set.  Take them out of the oven and let the banana oat cookies cool on the baking sheet for five minutes earlier than transferring to a wire rack.

Variations

• Combine-ins – I used raisins in these cookies, however you can add chocolate chips, chopped nuts, coconut, or different dried fruit comparable to cranberries, cherries, blueberries, and many others.
• To make these gluten-free – simply ensure you are utilizing gluten-free rolled oats or gluten-free fast oats together with oat flour.
• To make these vegan – merely swap out the honey for maple syrup or simply depart it out altogether if utilizing tremendous ripe bananas.  There aren’t any eggs on this recipe.
• Different cookie choices – you possibly can simply swap out the mashed banana for peanut butter (or almond butter) and make peanut butter oatmeal cookies or swap out the raisins and make chocolate chip cookies.

Retailer Banana Oatmeal Cookies

To Retailer:  To retailer these cookies, be sure they’re fully cool first after which switch them to a sealed, hermetic container and hold within the fridge for as much as one week.

To Freeze:  For longer storage, you possibly can freeze these cookies for as much as 3 months within the freezer.  When able to eat the cookies, merely thaw out at room temperature and luxuriate in!

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Hope you all take pleasure in these Banana Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies and in the event you love this recipe as a lot as we do, please depart me a five-star ranking beneath and don’t overlook to tag me on Instagram utilizing the hashtag #eatyourselfskinny! I like seeing all of your scrumptious recreations!