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:
MMMM, yummy! I was thinking about what I was going to eat for breakfast when I saw this and immediately whipped some up. They are so good!
Omg… Thinking about riding my bike to the store later today to purchase ingredients for these breakfast cookies! Can’t wait to try one 😉
My boyfriend will adore these- oatmeal raisin is one of his fave cookies! Delicious- thanks for sharing!
I’ve never been a huge fan of raisins until recently actually- I’ve started having them in my cereal and love adding them to pumpkin bread!
LOVE raisins. In fact, I love raisins so much that I love bran with my raisins. ha!
So good! Subbed Quinoa for Oats to make it gluten free. Next time I’ll add 1 more package of stevia. Thanks Katie!
Oh wow, that sounds awesome! I have a package of quinoa flakes, and I never know what to do with it!
Oh goodie!
Can’t wait to try these! I’m out of raisins, so I’ll probably sub dried cranberries instead (I love raisins — in fact, I love raisins AND chocolate, so I’ll probably try a batch using both!). I also find myself out of bananas, so I might try applesauce — or do you think pumpkin might be a decent sub?
Yes! I’ve wanted to try that, myself. If you try it first, do let me know how it goes!
My son is 15 months old and LOVES raisins. As soon as we try PB on him and know he isn’t allergic, I am going to put these together. He is currently allergic to eggs, so this recipe will be PERFECT.
I love raisins, especially the golden ones. I think part of the reason is that my mom didn’t really let me have them as a kid, after my dentist at the time told her they were bad for our teeth. No idea if there’s any truth to that, but there are far worse things to eat!
I’m making these for breakfast tomorrow 🙂 I would love to see another breakfast recipie for tomorrow! I am really liking your posts with savory recipies like the sweet potato Chili-which is aweome! You rock!
Love them love them.
Love them! Especially when plump and juicy. I like to snack on them all day long! They taste great with practically everything 😀
I am very pro-raisins! I love them!
These look awesome!! I need my breakfasts to be portable so these are the perfect things and I love that they are sugar-free! I’ve only recently started liking the oatmeal-raisin combo and I, like your roommate used to pick out the raisins from cookies! But I wonder if I could add almonds and cranberries instead for a kind of trail-mix cookie?
Yes, definitely! I was also thinking shredded carrot could be fun… carrot cake cookies? 🙂
You are awesome! Just what I was looking for. I searched your site yesterday and didn’t find any breakfast cookies so these are right on time and they look delicious. Can’t wait to try them. I’m hoping I can get a batch made today to send with the kido’s to school for lunch snacks. Thanks so much!
I’m on Team No-Raisins, but I would eat these, raisins and all! Cookies for breakfast??? Of course!
Awesome post-run snack because they are portable 😛