Banana oatmeal walnut chocolate cookies
A delicious cookie without added sugar or fat that will blow your mind!
Servings: 14 cookies
Calories: 75kcal
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 cups old fashioned oats
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 2 tbsp raw cacao powder
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- 1/4 tsp ground ginger
- 1-1/2 cup bananas, mashed (about 4 small or 3 large, 400 g mashed)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup walnuts chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350˚F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone pad.
- In a high power blender or food processor, pulse the oats a few times until you get a rough flour consistency.
- Pour oats into mixing bowl and add cacao powder, baking soda and spices.
- Mash bananas with a fork until completely smooth. Add to oatmeal mixture along with vanilla. Blend well with a spatula.
- Add nuts and mix until combined.
- Using an ice cream/cookie scoop (= about 2 tbsp), drop balls of dough onto cookies sheet, spacing well. With lightly moistened fingers, flatten the balls slightly.
- Bake 20 minutes. Cool on the sheet pan 15 minutes then on a wire rack until completely cool.
- Store in an airtight container
Notes
Option: you can add 1/4 cup of raisins with the walnuts. Recipe makes 16 cookies then, and nutritional value becomes 114 calories per cookie.
Nutrition
Calories: 75kcal | Total Carbohydrate: 9g | Protein: 2g | Total Fat: 4g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 79mg | Potassium: 74mg | Dietary Fiber: 2g | Total Sugars: 1g | Vitamin A: 1IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 13mg | Iron: 1mg | Includes Added Sugar: 0g