Satisfy your sweet tooth NATURALLY with whole grains, fruit, and natural sweeteners! In addition to providing natural sweetness, the whole grains help keep your blood sugar steady (avoiding those sugar highs and lows that lead to cravings and weight gain), provide fibre, and B-vitamins for energy. The coconut oil provides a metabolically-friendly source of fat, nuts provide essentially fats (omega-3) and protein, and cinnamon further helps stabilize the blood sugar and improves insulin sensitivity (helping cells make use of the energy you're feeding them). And of course bananas are sweet and provide fibre, and loads of potassium. What more can you ask for from a cookie? Enjoy!
These cookies freeze and thaw well, so make a batch and stick them in the freezer for munchie emergencies!
Ingredients1.5 cups oats
.5 cup whole grain flour (try almond flour, or oat flour, or brown rice flour)
.5 tsp salt
.25 tsp baking soda
dash or two cinnamon
2 Tbsp chopped nuts (walnuts go great)
2 Tbsp dark chocolate chips
2 med, ripe bananas, mashed (about 1 cup)
3/8 cup coconut oil
Directions- preheat over to 350 F
- mix dry ingredients
- in a separate bowl, mix mashed bananas and oil
- add banana mixture to the dry ingredients
- drop in heaping teaspoons on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet
- bake 10-15 minutes
Makes about 2 dozen cookies.
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