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
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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
All time best cookies. I really load them up with extras over the recommended recipe…lots of chocolate chips, coconut, walnuts, dried cherries, chia seeds, flax seeds. Hard to mess up this recipe and a great treat every time!
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Can you use something besides oats? I can’t have oatmeal. Thank you!
they turned out delicious! Only thing to note is that the dough is very difficult to transfer to baking tray, maybe because my PB was a little runnier or just due to the simple and good ingredients.
I’m out of rolled oats, but i do have oat flour. Could I use that instead here? Love your recipes!
These are delicious breakfast or for a healthy snack. We love them 🙂
Can these be frozen after they are baked?
Yes!
I love that the breakfast cookies are made without sugar or fat! Please do more of that!
I just made these with my high school students who are studying nutrition. The only thing that they were not happy about was how soft they were. We used applesauce and sunbutter, 3 TBSP of chocolate chips and 2 TBSP of craisins. We were able to get 12 cookies per batch and baked them for 17 minutes – we then let them cool for 10 minutes and they’re still very soft. I understand based on the ingredients that they will of course be soft due to lack of flour but I am wondering did they do something wrong? I do have to say though, the flavor is delicious!
Just cooked these in the air fryer as an experiment. Came out great! Only took 10 minutes.
I love these cookies. They are a new staple for us. I don’t add any extra sugar so I feel good giving them to my toddler. The Craisins add enough sweetness for us. We just subbed almond butter with peanut butter for the first time and it was really good!