Delicious cookies with no butter, sugar or flour! Wholesome and yummy!
Do not adjust your screens! Yes, I’m bringing you another healthy recipe with no refined sugar, no butter and NO flour! These Healthy Banana, Oat and Peanut Butter Cookies admittedly aren’t the usual chocolate chunk cookies that I like to tempt you with! I whipped them up one Sunday afternoon (what is it about Sunday’s that make you need a cookie?) and packed them full of good stuff that still tastes naughty, thanks to chunks of antioxidant rich dark chocolate.
They’re incredibly easy to pull together in just a few minutes and a great use for leftover bananas – plus they’re incredibly delicious and filling. Use your favourite peanut butter to add a protein and healthy fat punch and add in chopped nuts of your choice too. Chewy edges, soft centres and melting pockets of chocolate, spiced with cinnamon… Honestly, these are so good I think they would even fool kids!
- 2 ripe bananas
- 1 tbsp honey
- 1 tbsp ground cinnamon
- 350g jumbo oats
- 75g dessicated or flaked coconut
- 150g (about half a small jar) peanut butter
- 75g chopped pecans
- 60g dark chocolate, chopped into small squares
- 1 tsp vanilla bean paste
- pinch salt
- Preheat your oven to 160c/gas mark 4/350f and line two large baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats.
- In a food processor, blitz your bananas with the honey, cinnamon, vanilla bean paste and peanut butter until everything is liquid and incorporated.
- Remove the blitzed banana mixture, and add it to a large bowl with the oats, nuts, coconut and chopped dark chocolate. Mix until everything is combined well, and then use a small ice cream scoop (or two tablespoons) to portion out oat cookies. Bake for 15 minutes, then allow to cool.
Love the idea of healthier treats? Take a look at these other healthy recipes: Vegan Banana Cake | Pumpkin Spice Flapjacks | Coconut Banana Protein Pancakes (I’ve made these and they were yummy!) | Chocolate Coconut Biscuits | Avocado Oat Chocolate Cookies | Chocolate Oat Cereal Bars | Healthier Chocolate Chip Cookies | Neapolitan Banana Ice Cream
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Diane @ Life of Di. says
July 24, 2015 at 5:48 pmThese cookies look so delicious! Another great recipe. I’m almost finished with the Whole30 and would love to try these. I think Charlotte would love them in the future, too.
Kerry Cooks says
July 25, 2015 at 4:43 pmThank you! They’d be tasty with fruit instead of chocolate too – I just have a sweet tooth! Plus you could use almond butter in place of peanut butter if you preferred 🙂
Diane @ Life of Di. says
July 24, 2015 at 5:48 pmThese cookies look so delicious! Another great recipe. I’m almost finished with the Whole30 and would love to try these. I think Charlotte would love them in the future, too.
Sarah says
July 23, 2015 at 11:11 pmYou wouldn’t think these were healthy! It would hard not to scoff the lot in one go. Hehe. 🙂
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Andrea (Made With Pink) says
July 20, 2015 at 10:09 pmWow! You were right when you said don’t adjust your screens! I cannot believe these are healthy – they look too good. And that picture with all the gooey melted chocolate. Oh my! 🙂 Thanks as well for sharing my Coconut Banana Protein Pancakes – and glad to hear you enjoyed them!
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Kate @ Veggie Desserts says
July 20, 2015 at 2:44 pmYum! I love making these type of cookies – perfect for little ones. Thanks for linking to mine! 🙂
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Ciara (My Fussy Eater) says
July 20, 2015 at 2:16 pmThese look incredible! I love breakfast cookies, so handy to grab and go on busy mornings!
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Camilla says
July 20, 2015 at 1:37 pmWow Kerry these cookies look simply amazing, you really wouldn’t know they were healthy! Thanks for linking to my banana cake:-)
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nadia says
July 20, 2015 at 1:14 pmThey look delicious Kerry and so full of goodness 😀
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Rachel says
July 20, 2015 at 9:05 amYum! If I had any jumbo oats I’d be making these for breakfast this morning!
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Ceri says
July 20, 2015 at 1:03 pmlovely. Peanut butter makes excellent cookies, and along with creamy oats and banana you can’t go wrong. Another cookie recipe to add to the repertoire!