Healthy Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies
I am sure as a parent you have heard this question before. Cookies for breakfast? No WAY! Well, with these Healthy Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies, you can eat cookies for breakfast, lunch or dinner!
I keep a batch of these cookies on hand during the week for snacks, quick grab-n-go breakfasts, or for a pre-workout snack.
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The best part? There are only 5 ingredients!
Healthy Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies
- 2 cups oatmeal, uncooked quick
- 2 ripe bananas
- 1 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- (optional add-ins: 1/3 cup of raisins, chocolate chips or cranberries. For a sweeter cookie, you can also add 1 TBSP of honey)
- Preheat heat oven to 350 degrees.
- Mix together, oatmeal, bananas, vanilla extract, applesauce and cinnamon.
- Prepare a cookie sheets with parchment paper. Drop cookie dough in spoonfuls onto the the cookie sheet, and then flatten cookies into round shapes. ( I made about 17 medium cookies)
- Bake approx. 25 – 30 minutes, or until golden. Remove from oven & let rest on cookie sheet for 5 minutes and then move to cooling rack. Be careful, cookies will be very soft until they cool entirely.
- Store in an airtight container for 3-4 days.
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Ingredients
- 2 cups oatmeal uncooked quick
- 2 ripe bananas
- 1 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- optional add-ins: 1/3 cup of raisins, chocolate chips or cranberries. For a sweeter cookie, you can also add 1 TBSP of honey
Instructions
- Preheat heat oven to 350 degrees.
- Mix together, oatmeal, bananas, vanilla extract, applesauce and cinnamon.
- Prepare a cookie sheets with parchment paper. Drop cookie dough in spoonfuls onto the the cookie sheet, and then flatten cookies into round shapes. ( I made about 17 medium cookies)
- Bake approx. 25 - 30 minutes, or until golden. Remove from oven & let rest on cookie sheet for 5 minutes and then move to cooling rack. Be careful, cookies will be very soft until they cool entirely.
Nutrition
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Just made these this morning after a friend’s recommendation. I think they’re great and my kids (2 1/2 and 11 months) gobbled them up. I love that they aren’t as messy as regular oatmeal. My husband thought they needed to be sweeter but he’s a sugar junkie. I’m thinking of trying peanut butter in them but am wondering, if anything, what should I sub out? Any ideas?
Thanks! 🙂
To make them more sweet, you can add in some more honey, toasted coconut, chocolate or white chocolate chips 🙂 YUM!
I’m making the original recipe first, but I think cooked mashed carrots might be a good substitute for those who want/need to avoid bananas. I’ll try that next and let you know if it works.
Love these! Make them all the time, I put chocolate chips and chia seeds, hemp hearts and flax seeds in them too ☺️
I made these for a relative, hoping that they might be able to be incorporated into a BRAT diet (for those who don’t know, BRAT = Bananas, Rice, Applesauce & Toast – a diet recommended to those suffering from severe diarrhea, as he was, at the time) – the vanilla extract worried me a bit, as many brands contain alcohol (which is completely against the BRAT diet). I just used some vanilla seeds (from an actual bean pod), and it worked out OK. Thank you for a simple, not-too-terribly sweet, relatively inexpensive recipe 🙂 And to top it all off, once he got well again, he still wanted me to make this recipe for him – he loves it! (This, from the man, my Dad, who usually only ever wants eggs and bacon for brekky… lol!!)
I just made these with a few of my own tweaks and they are very good!
-I added some ground flax seed and also a bit of powdered baby formula just so they had even more health benefits(-I’m weaning an 11 month old baby…). I also added about 1/4 cup of honey, and I was out of cinnamon so I used ground earl grey tea for flavour. Also added about 2 tablespoons of oil.
Really good, mine took about 23 minutes. I made them late at night with a bit of a swert craving so I’m currently eating them with a bit of icing, but in the morning will eat them as is. I’m really hoping my little guy will like them!