Now that I’m done with my dreaded Biostats class, I have so much more free time. What to do, what to do…bake cookies of course! But, I have to be careful about baked goods now that I’m not eating any refined flours or added sugars. That pretty much cuts out 99% of all recipes.
Just in time, I was e-mailed a recipe by Dr. Fuhrman’s Six Week Holiday Challenge for oatmeal cookies with no sweetener other than ripe bananas. Yes!
Here’s the recipe with my adaptions. I couldn’t help but substitute the raisins with grain-sweetened chocolate chips. If you’re a purist, you can use raisins instead. Girl needs some chocolate is all I can say.
Banana-Sweetened Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies – Makes 15
Adapted from: Dr. Fuhrman’s recipe
Ingredients:
2 cups uncooked rolled oats
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon unsweetened cocoa powder
4 ripe bananas, peeled
1/4 cup raw sunflower seeds, chopped
1/4 cup pecan pieces
1/4 cup grain-sweetened chocolate chips (found at a natural foods store)
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Add oats to a food processor and process 20-30 seconds until oats are ground into a flour. Combine oat flour with cinnamon and cocoa powder in a medium bowl. Add bananas to the food processor and process 20-30 seconds until pureed. Add bananas to the flour mixture and stir in nuts and chocolate chips. Stir it all up. Plop cookie-sized dough ball onto foil-lined baking sheet (no need to grease the foil). Bake for 13-15 minutes or until slightly browned on top.
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Add oats to a food processor:
Process 20-30 seconds until oats are ground into a flour:
Combine oat flour with cinnamon and cocoa powder in a medium bowl:
Add bananas to the food processor:
Process 20-30 seconds until pureed:
Add bananas to the flour mixture and stir in nuts and chocolate chips:
Stir it all up:
Plop cookie-sized dough ball onto foil-lined baking sheet (no need to grease the foil):
Bake for 13-15 minutes or until slightly browned on top:
Enjoy as a snack or whenever you need a healthy sweet fix! Now that’s a holiday cookie I can enjoy.
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loving this!!
thanks!
So glad, you’re welcome!
Oatmeal cookies are always my favourite. I love how you don’t use any sugar in this recipe. Certainly hope to try this soon! Thanks for sharing this recipe:)
This is one of my favorite recipes for that very reason….no added sugar!
YAY for no sugar added!!!! I am totally making these! Bookmarking them right now!
xoxo
Kathleen
I think they’d be equally delicious w/o the chocolate chips and with raisins instead. If you try them that way, let me know if you like them!
This is a great recipe!! I’m bookmarking it until my banana’s ripen
Thanks Lana and enjoy!
These look so excellent! I need to try them, since I have a bunch of ripe bananas to use up.
Give it a try and let me know what you think!
The recipe looks like the “Yummy Oat Bars” from Eat to Live. The only diference is the ground oats, cinnamon and cocoa powder. This looks better since the “Yummy Oat Bars” were anything but!
How funny! I haven’t tried the Oat Bar recipe, but I was inspired by Dr. Fuhrman’s Antioxidant Breakfast Bar recipe. The banana in this recipe makes the bars moist and sweet so I recommend trying them. Let me know what you think!
I agree with Fat Fudge. The “yummy banana oat bars” from Eat to live were not yummy at all. Planning to make your cookies today since I happen to have some overripe bananas just waiting for me to do something with them. Thanks!
I just used some regular chocolate chips I had on hand, but these were fabulous!!
So glad you liked them!
About how much do four mashed bananas amount to? 2 cups, roughly? I have those little, sweet bananas here so I’m wondering if it’s really going to take eight of them…
Hi Stephanie,
Great question! I’m trying to remember about how much 4 bananas came to. I use medium-sized bananas so maybe about 1 1/2 cups? The recipe is flexible, the bananas added sweetness and moisture. So, you might just have to adjust the baking time based on how much banana you use. Let me know how they turn out!
Carrie: well, they were dry—and I ended up melting and stirring in 1 Tbsp of butter (pretend I said “earth balance”, but there isn’t any in Sao Paulo!) just to be able to incorporate the dry. So maybe more than 1.5 cups is needed… Also, I made them with chopped apricots instead of nuts, and the end result was great! A new favourite!
Hi Stephanie, thanks for letting me know! The other option would be to add applesauce if you don’t want to add any additional fat. Mmmm, the chopped apricots sound delicious!
Thanks for posting this recipe. I made some changes to it to fit my kids who are transitioning to a whole foods diet. I ended up using almond flour, 2 bananas and extra chocolate chips. They turned out great.
That’s great, I’m so happy the kids liked the cookies! Keep up the good work, I know it’s difficult for kids to make changes, but you’re doing a wonderful job.
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