Nikki's Healthy Cookie Recipe
Ingredients
3 large, ripe bananas, well mashed (about 1 1/2 cups)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 cup coconut oil, barely warm (or alternately, olive oil)
200 g cups rolled oats
100 g almonds
25 g dessicated coconut
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon fine grain sea salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
150 g chocolate chips or dark chocolate already grated
Optional sugar or honey to sweeten to personal preference
Preheat oven to 180deg.
Place almonds in TM bowl and grind to make almond meal, speed 9 15 seconds. Srape down.
Add rolled oats, coconut, cinnamon, sea salt, baking powder and chocolate chips. Mix well, reverse speed 3, 3 seconds.
Add mashed banana, coconut oil and vanilla extract. Mix through, reverse speed 5, 2 seconds.
Taste the mixture in case you want to add some sugar or honey to personal preference (I didn't).
Drop dollops of dough, about 2 teaspoons in size, an inch apart, on lined baking sheet.
Bake for about 12 minutes.
Source -
101 CookbooksThe photo is from the original website.
Tips
- Apparantly you can use apple sauce instead of the mashed banana, or sultanas instead of chocolate chips.
- For a nut free version, I'd try grinding sunflower seeds and pepitas.
- I always grate chocolate instead of using chocolate chips. I've already reduced the chocolate in this recipe, and they are still quite chocolatey.
- I used 70% cocoa chocolate - using chocolate with less cocoa would result in a sweeter biscuit.
- These are really nice, soft, chewy biscuits which is the way I like them. I think if you like them crunchy, you can double bake them.
