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Breakfast Cookies
Chewy oat cookies bound with banana, peanut butter and maple syrup, studded with chocolate chips. They taste like a treat but eat like a bowl of baked oatmeal you can hold in one hand.
Ingredients
- 1 cupbanana · fresh or frozen and thawed
- 2eggs
- 1 tspvanilla bean paste or vanilla extract
- 1 cuppeanut butter
- 1/4 cupmaple syrup
- 3 cupsrolled oats
- 1 tspbaking powder
- 1 tspbaking soda
- 1 tspsalt
- 1/2 cupoat flour
- 1 cupchocolate chips
Steps
- 1
Mash the bananas in the bowl of a stand mixer, or use a hand mixer.
- 2
Add the eggs, vanilla, peanut butter and maple syrup, then mix again until smooth and well combined.
- 3
Add the oats, baking powder, baking soda, salt and oat flour, and mix again.
- 4
Stir in the chocolate chips until they're evenly distributed through the batter.
- 5
Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and preheat the oven to 350°F.
- 6
Drop large dollops of batter onto the sheet with a cookie scoop, leaving about a half inch between them (about 12 cookies).
- 7
Press down on the top of each cookie with the back of a spoon to flatten them slightly.
- 8
Bake about 15 minutes, until the cookies are fully set and beginning to brown around the edges.
- 9
Let cool on the sheet a few minutes so they don't fall apart when you pick them up.
Creator's notes
School is out for summer, but breakfast cookies are good all the time.
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