One Bowl Banana Barley Breakfast Cookies
High in fibre and protein, these chewy breakfast cookies have staying power to keep you satiated and are a nutritious and balanced way to start the day. They make a flavourful and portable snack on the go, too. Be sure to use very ripe bananas (we’re talking lots of brown freckles or entirely brown) to ensure your cookies taste amazing and lightly sweet. These are breakfast cookies so they are less sweet than a dessert cookie, just right to start the day!
Ingredients
Wet
- 3/4 to 1 cup mashed banana from 3 small/2 medium, very ripe bananas
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 cup coconut oil melted
- 1/4 to 1/3 cup maple syrup see tip
- 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Dry
- 1 cup oat flour
- 1 cup barley flour or other whole grain flour
- 1/3 cup shredded coconut
- 1/2 cup hemp hearts
- 1/4 cup chia seeds
- 1/4 cup chopped nuts
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/3 to 1/2 cup chocolate chips or dried fruit if preferred
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375° F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a large mixing bowl, mash the banana, we’ll want around 3/4 to 1 cup mashed. Add the remaining wet ingredients and whisk, until well combined.
- Except for the chocolate chips, add the dry ingredients on top and fold in gently, until just combined. Then, gently fold in the chocolate chips.
- Scoop about 1/3 cup cookie dough onto the baking sheet. Continue, spacing an inch or so apart, for the remaining dough.
- Bake for 17 minutes, until lightly firm to the touch with light golden bottoms. Once baked, allow to cool and serve with some yogurt and berries or on their own. Enjoy!
Notes
If your bananas are very freckled or brown, you’ll likely prefer the lower end of the range for the maple syrup. If they are mostly yellow, I highly recommend using the higher range of maple syrup.
You can use either black or white chia seeds. They are interchangeable, the white ones are handy if your kids have an eagle eye that can spot the black ones in baked goods and refuse them! ;)
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