Cooking Thursday: Banana Breakfast Cookies

 

Hey Besties!

How are you doing these days?

It's been a couple of rainy cozy ones here. Today it's been gray & windy. We have rain on and off in the forecast until tomorrow morning. So I'm going to work on some more of my hospice work from home. Then curl up with a book or some fun magazines later. I'm making pork chop pinwheels for dinner tonight - glazed with sugar-free BBQ sauce. I'll look at what veggies we have hanging out in the fridge and it might be a good night to have the oven on (it's chilly and only high 50's). So I think I'll throw together a nice sheet pan veggie side dish but to give it a summer twist I'll sprinkle on some peach balsamic vinegar for brightness. It will play nice with the lemon thyme I have in my garden, that I'll also throw on the veggies. It's always fun to mess around with flavors. 😋

I'm also thinking about making a small batch of strawberry rhubarb sauce. This is the first real year my rhubarb is being established, so I don't want to mess with it too much. But I think I'll take just 2 stalks to mix with strawberries and make a little sauce on the stove. Summer's treats! 

But the yummy goodness I wanted to share today is all about these breakfast cookies I made the other day and have been enjoying with morning coffee all week. 

Doesn't it look tasty? I think they're great because they're hearty & filling, yet filled with good healthy ingredients. They're sweet and have a little flaky salt on top to give a hint of salty as well. Plus, they're soft and fluffy. Think fluffy banana bread mini muffin/cookie kind of a thing. When I put the recipe into my calorie counter it came out to about 140-150 per cookie. I found the recipe at ambitiouskitchen.com 

This is what the batter looks like. It's filled with mashed bananas, oat flour and oats, natural peanut butter, - also chia, hemp & flax seeds. The only sweetener is a little maple syrup. However I also added the fun the recipe suggested with some chocolate chips...I only had mini ones. And I added just a little bit of butterscotch chips because I didn't use many chocolate chips in the batter. I decided to throw in some chopped walnuts (more omega 3's)

Then once baked up they came out looking like this:

It's been really fun to have something different for the mornings. Plus, they're SO good with coffee. They would be great as a snack too. 

 I thought I'd share in case you wanted to give them a try too. 

Here's the recipe:

Enjoy! 😋