Haven’t you always wanted to eat cookies for breakfast??
These sugar free cookies are filled with wholesome ingredients like bananas, oats, and raisins. See? Totally acceptable for breakfast. Or lunch.
Mmm sure, why not?
Normally, my goal is to make my healthy dessert recipes not taste healthy. However, these cookies are an exception to that rule. (In other words, don’t expect them to taste like traditional cookies you’d find in a bakery.) The wholesome breakfast cookies won’t be a hit with everyone, and I wouldn’t bring them to a party.
For that, I recommend my popular Flourless Chocolate Chip Cookies.
But if you’re used to the taste of healthy desserts—and maybe even if you’re not—these incredibly healthy oatmeal-raisin cookies might just be your newest-favorite cookies!
Oatmeal Raisin Breakfast Cookies
Also found here: 100 Sugar-Free Recipes
- 1/2 cup rolled oats
- scant 1/2 cup applesauce or over-ripe banana (mashed)
- 1/4 cup nut butter of choice (I used salted peanut butter)
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 3 tbsp raisins (or other dried fruit, or even chocolate chips)
- 1/16 tsp salt, plus a tiny pinch more if desired (taste dough to decide)
- 1 packet stevia if using applesauce version (or 1 tablespoon sugar. I actually omitted this altogether. If you have absolutely no sweet tooth, you can try it that way. And if you have a huge sweet tooth—or are used to “non-healthy-tasting” desserts—try adding 1/4 cup sugar. As I said above, don’t expect these to taste like your everyday oatmeal-raisin cookies. I’ll post a recipe for those soon!)
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Mash the applesauce or banana with the nut butter, then add all other ingredients and mix until well-combined. Shape into cookies and bake for around 14 minutes. (Alternatively, you can try pulverizing the raisins and oats before combining them with the banana mixture, if you want more sweetness.) This recipe probably yields around 10-12 cookies, but I had to guess… because I ate a considerable amount of the raw dough!
Raisins: Do you love or hate them?
It seems like people have very strong feelings about raisins—either adoring them or loathing them! My roommate is on Team No-Raisins. Yesterday afternoon, as we were eating the cookies, she kept picking out the raisins and asking, “Couldn’t you have used chocolate chips instead?!” Hmmm, that’s actually not a bad idea. If there’s one thing I love more than raisins, it’s chocolate!
EDIT – Here is the chocolate version:
we have nut allergies so I can’t use PB. Is there something I could use as a substitute?
Thank you 🙂
any nut butter or sunbutter or peabutter 🙂
My son is allergic to all nuts….is sunbutter or peabutter free of nuts?
I looked them up 🙂 thank you so much! I love your website!!!
This may be a dumb question, but can I sub quick oats for the rolled oats?
Sorry, I haven’t ever tried it so I don’t know.
I always use quick oats for everything and they work great (I just made these with them as well)
Made these and linked them to this page from my blog! I think I over-baked mine, because they came out almost like granola….which was pretty good regardless 🙂
Just made these, thank you so much, they are delicious and healthy, I love them! Keep up the good work xxxxxxxx
Thank you so much for these. I am sensitive or downright allergic to so many things. This is awesome.
I make these often and usually double the recipe! I like both the applesauce and banana version. My kids go wild when we have “cookies” for breakfast! Thank you 🙂
Katie, what do you use to mix this? do I need to use a food processor or just with a spoon and bowl? 🙂
and I’m totally pro raisin! I love raisins! thank you for this recipe!
spoon and bowl is ok 🙂
Just made these with almond butter, coconut palm sugar, and white raisins- absolutely delicious!
Thank- you!
This looks like a delicious recipe. We love peanut butter and will try that version, though I imagine almond butter is tasty.
My family likes golden raisins MUCH better than the typical dark raisin. I think it’s because they’re more camouflaged in the cookie.
These are in the oven now! I used cashew butter as the nut butter, carob chips as oppose to the raisins, and added 1 TBLS raw honey (on top of the packet of truvia). Also, a local farm near me makes Chunky Rum Applesauce, so I used that. I measured the cookies with a TBLS measuring spoon & got 14 cookies at 2 weight watchers points plus value per cookie. I’m so excited to try them!
p.s. They’re amazing! Next time I will make each cookie 2 TBLS each instead of just one so they’re a little bigger. Or maybe I’ll keep them small, sandwich ice cream in the middle of 2 of them and make ice cream sandwiches!
I just made these. Yum!
I used craisins instead of raisins since that was what I had on hand and added just a pinch of baking soda! They are really yummy! Thanks for the great recipes!
I made these last night and they are great! My son loved them for breakfast this morning. Next time I will try the applesauce version, as I didn’t love the slight banana taste. So easy and healthy! Thanks!
I am making these now!! The batter was delicious; I had to tear myself away from eating all the batter. 😉
I used almond butter, golden raisins, 2 TBS coconut, and left the rest the same. They’re baking as I type… 😀
Thank you, Katie! Your recipes are truly helping me to achieve my weight loss goal! <3
Ps…they’re SO nom-licious!!!!! 😀
Just made these! I used crunchy roasted almond butter and mixed raisins and chocolate chips and added a tsp of coconut sugar/crystals. OMG. I’ve already eaten 3 of them! I wish I had another black banana so I could make another batch! ha ha ha
These make a perfect breakfast snack on the go! I just made a batch this morning and between my husband and me, they are almost gone. Was tempted to double the recipe but wanted to try it out before I ended up with loads of something neither of us loved. Clearly that is not the problem. I’ll try again this weekend with some coconut additions — the almond butter and golden raisin/cranberry mix was good but what isn’t better with coconut? Thanks for the ideas, other readers!
I was duped! Saw these on pinterest and thought they were chocolate chip. Raisins have no business in my treats. I will try the recipe with chocolate chips, perhaps.