Healthy Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
These cookies are so healthy, I am not even sure if they count as cookies! They are chewy but chocolaty and naturally sweetened with banana. They are also full of fiber-rich oats and flax seeds. And what's more, the recipe only needs one bowl! It's a perfect snack between meals or a healthy substitute for chocolate chip cookies. If you are craving a sweeter bite, feel free to add any kind of sweetener to the cookie dough.
Ingredients
- 160 grams quick oats or rolled oats
- 2 ripe bananas (the riper. the sweeter, the better)
- 2 tbsp flax seeds
- 1 tbsp raw cocoa powder
- 2 tbsp peanut butter
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- 40 grams dark chocolate chips
- 25 grams chopped walnuts (optional)
- pinch of salt (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C and prepare the baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Mash the bananas well in a big bowl. Add the oats, flax seeds, cocoa powder, peanut butter, cinnamon, chopped walnuts (optional) and salt (optional) and half of the chocolate chips to the mashed bananas. Mix well.
- Using half a tablespoon of the cookie dough, form little balls and flatten them when placing on the baking sheet. These cookies do not spread, so form them already in a preferred shape. Sprinkle on the other half of the chocolate chips.
- Bake in the oven for about 15 minutes or until the cookies are baked.
- Let the cookies cool before eating. The cookies will be set on the outside but chewy on the inside.
