April 22, 2015

Image from Ambitious Kitchen

I have a confession to make - I haven't baked in close to a year. With cutting most sugar out of our lives and being sensitive to dairy and gluten it just makes life way easier. But! We had some bananas that needed using and with the weather changing my heart couldn't help but want to turn them into delicious baked goodness vs frozen smoothie healthiness. Usually I would make my mom's banana bread but with no butter or milk in the house I decided on oatmeal breakfast cookies. These cookies are super easy to make and relatively healthy! Plus they only take around 15 minutes to make and are about 60 calories per cookie (depending add ons), win win!

The recipe (if you want to even call it a recipe) is simple 2 mashed bananas plus 2 cups oats. Then for fun flavour you can add in basically anything you want!

vanilla extract
peanut butter chips
peanut butter
nutella
dried cranberries
sultanas
chopped walnuts, almond or pecans
coconut flakes
cocoa nibs / chocolate chips
baking spices
salt
milk (almond, coconut, soy - helps blend it all together and lighten the cookies)

I personally made 2 batches as we had 4 bananas.

Batch 1 had: banans, oats, peanut butter, pumpkin pie spice mix, cinnamon, salt.

Batch 2 had: bananas, oats, almond milk, sultanas, chocolate chips, nutmeg, spiced cake mix, salt.

INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat oven to 170C
Mix all ingredients together in mixer until smooth
Let sit for about 10 minutes before putting in oven (especially if you add milk to help set mixture)
Cook for approximately 10 minutes

Enjoy!