Sprouted Oatmeal Banana Breakfast Cookies

These days, I like to keep an abundance of ripe bananas on hand at all times. They’ve truly become my favourite fruit! You can freeze them to use in creamy smoothies or plant-based “ice-cream” making, toss them onto oatmeal and yogurt bowls, bake them into nourishing treats, and, my personal favourite: use them as a natural whole-foods sweetener.

I love baking with banana. Not only does it naturally sweetener baked goods, but it’s creamy consistency acts as a wonderful egg replacement for plant-based baking. Best of all, bananas are extremely affordable and incredibly easy to come by!

These Sprouted Oatmeal Banana Breakfast Cookies were inspired by the extra ripe bananas sitting on my kitchen counter, a lonely bag of my favourite sprouted oats just waiting to be used, and a desire to start the day with something sweet. And what better way to start the day than delightful and nourishing cookies that are totally suitable for breakfast?

Count me in!

These babies are gluten-free, vegan, and made with simple real ingredients like ripe banana, nut butter, and @onedegreeorganics rolled oats. I love these oats because they’re sprouted, making them so much easier to digest.

When baking, I like to use coconut sugar because it’s lower on the glycemic index and more nutritionally dense compared to other sweeteners. This means the sugar is absorbed more slowly into our bodies, resulting in less of an impact on blood sugar levels.

Ingredients

2 extra ripe bananas, mashed
1.5 cups @onedegreeorganics gf rolled oats
3/4 cup peanut butter (or other nut butter of choice!)
1/3 cup @wholesomesweet coconut sugar
1/4 cup pumpkin or sunflower seeds
1 tsp @simplyorganicfoods vanilla
1 tsp cinnamon
Pinch of sea salt

Method

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. In a bowl, mash together the ripe bananas until smooth. Stir in the remaining ingredients, then spoon the batter into cookie shaped circles across a parchment paper-lined baking sheet. Bake at 350 for about 10-12 minutes, or until the cookies have set and the bottoms aregolden brown.

Happy cookie making!