These chocolate chip healthy breakfast cookies are so wholesomely delicious, you can easily eat them for breakfast or dessert!
Cookies for breakfast – who could ever say no to such a thing???
These breakfast cookies are jam-packed with healthy ingredients and are sweetened naturally, without any added sugar or oil.
If you can imagine something between a chocolate chip cookie and a homemade mini muffin, that’s what you’ll think of when you try these homemade vegan breakfast cookies that can also be gluten free.
And the best part is that you can customize them to make different flavors so you’ll never get bored.
Chocolate chip breakfast cookies, cranberry almond breakfast cookies, banana bread, blueberry, mocha, coconut, chia seed, oatmeal raisin… feel free to throw in whatever ingredients you have on hand, and let your imagination run wild!
Also Try These Popular Chocolate No Bake Cookies
And if you’re still craving cookies, here are 100 more healthy recipes to try: Healthy Cookies Recipes
L
is for the way you look at me.
O
is for the only one I see.
C
is for cookie.
That’s good enough for me.
Cookie cookie cookie starts with C.
Somehow, I’ve managed to mix up Nat King Cole and Cookie Monster.
Oh well… at least I tried.
All you need is love.
And cookies.
Above: Watch the video of how to make a chocolate version!
Full recipe for the chocolate version: Chocolate Breakfast Cookies
Breakfast Cookies
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup rolled oats
- scant 1/2 cup applesauce or mashed banana
- 1/4 cup almond or cashew butter OR allergy-friendly sub
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/16 tsp salt
- 2-3 tbsp mini chocolate chips or sugar free chocolate chips
- 2 1/2 tbsp freeze-dried raspberries OR 2 tbsp dried fruit or more chocolate chips
- optional 2 tbsp sugar or pinch stevia (see note below)
- optional add-ins, such as chia seeds, shredded coconut, etc.
Instructions
- *Especially if using banana, you can easily omit the added sweetener entirely for a wholesomely delicious taste that's like eating mini muffins in the form of a cookie. If you'd prefer more of a dessert taste, add extra sweetener as desired, starting with the listed 2 tbsp and going from there – if you want to use a liquid sweetener, just cut back on the banana or applesauce.Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Mash the applesauce or banana with the nut butter until smooth, then stir in all other ingredients until well-combined. Shape into cookies–I used a mini cookie scoop–and bake on a greased cookie sheet for around 15 minutes. Let cool 10 minutes before removing from sheet. This makes 18 mini cookies (as shown in the photos), or 10-12 bigger cookies.View Nutrition Facts
Notes
Your Nat Cole/Cookie Monster mash up TOTALLY cracked me up!! I recognized them immediately.
The recipe sounds exactly like what I need. I am printing it off right now.
Aw thank you! 🙂
Ever thought about opening your own baking shop, Katie? I think you would have the best bakery on the Block, if not, the whole city!
Haha I feel like I might eat too much of the inventory though… 😕
Yes, good idea! Agreed
Any sub for oats? Unfortunately, low carb and T1D and oats make my blood glucose skyrocket.
I use flaked quinoa. Works well.
Obsessed with the addition of raspberries! These look amazing and so pretty!!
xo,
Em
Too many carbs for Keto
My two favorite passions in one, breakfast and cookies!
Paige
Wow this looks so good, I guess my diet is on hold now! Thanks for sharing <3
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Nice, I make something like this for breakfast sometimes. Also, this recipe looks really familiar, wasn’t this included in one of your cookbooks?
There’s a banana one in her book! 🙂 Different pictures, but I think the recipe is pretty similar and concept is the same.
Cookies are also one of my favorite desserts that you can healthify! Watch me eat a whole batch of these cookies in a sitting, because that WILL happen.
Hi Katie. I love your recipes and have been making them for years. I love this recipe and have been making it for years as well. Your email says it is a new recipe. It doesn’t seem like there are any changes from the way it was written a few years ago. Please let me know. Thanks again for all of your great recipes!
Hi! Sometimes Katie likes to go back and update old recipes, and normally she won’t change the date but if it’s a really popular recipe she doesn’t want to get lost in the archives, she might change the date so it will go out in an email as well. But is it possible to tell me where it says it’s a new recipe, for example is it in the email or somewhere in the post? I’m asking out of genuine curiosity, not trying to be sarcastic here.
Jason
These were amazing!! I was looking for a recipe like this (no flour, no sugar) that I could have as a healthy snack (with chocolate, of course). I’m currently breastfeeding and I know oatmeal is supposed to help with supply so this works on many levels.