Healthy Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies

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Healthy Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies

These cookies are gluten-free and full of nutrient dense ingredients! Don’t be fooled by the name “breakfast cookies” – these are the perfect snack too!

Course Breakfast, Snack

Cuisine American

Diet Gluten Free

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 20

Total Time 30

Servings cookies

Calories 256kcal

Author Sara

Equipment

1 large mixing bowl
1 Baking sheet

Ingredients

1 ¼ cups rolled oats (certified gluten free if needed)
1 cup almond flour
½ cup flaxseed meal (ground flaxseeds)
2 ripe bananas, mashed (see notes)
¼ cup coconut oil, melted
2 eggs (room temp)
1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
⅓ cup chocolate chips

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
In a large bowl, mix together the oats, almond flour, and flaxseed meal. Push these ingredients off to the side to make room for the wet ingredients.
In the same bowl, add the mashed banana, oil, eggs, and vanilla to the open side of the bowl. Gently whisk the wet ingredients and then fully mix in with the dry ingredients. Batter should be thick so it holds its shape, but not too thick like cookie dough.
Fold in the chocolate chips.
Scoop mixture onto prepared cookie sheet in 2" mounds and slightly flatten into a cookie shape. You should get 10 cookies from the mix.
Bake for 18-20 minutes, or until lightly golden brown.
Enjoy!

Notes

I like using previously frozen and then thawed bananas, but ripe bananas straight from the counter also work. If using bananas straight from the counter, start with 1 cup of oats so they aren't too dry (previously frozen bananas will provide more liquid and more moisture).
In order to keep these 100% clean, you can skip the chocolate chips or could add in 2-3 tablespoons of pure maple syrup if you'd like to sweeten the cookie base up.
The chocolate chips add 3 grams of added sugars to each cookie (the total of 7 grams includes 4 grams of natural sugar from the bananas).
To make vegan, sub flax eggs. For each egg, combine 1 tbsp. flaxseed meal with 3 tbsp. of water and let sit for 5 minutes. And if using chocolate chips, make sure they are dairy free.

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