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:
Luv how simple this recipes is…yum!
umm YES PLEASE !!! 😀
these look delicious!!!
Thanks for the recipe, Katie!! 😀
Deffffinitely making these this weekend to put in my yogurt bowls!
I made these and they were delicious! I ate them up pretty quickly. ; )
cookies for bfast?? yessss
Just this morning, while eating a bowl of oatmeal, I thought to myself, “I need to make some kind of oatmeal-to-go thingy.” You can now add “psychic” to your list of talents!
Fantastic recipe. I have been known to eat cookies for breakfast all the time, they are usually healthy moni style so it is all good. 🙂
These look good – but I do hate raisins. As soon as I saw them I was like, replace the raisins with chocolate chips!! The worst is when you think it’s a chocolate chip and then you bite into it and it’s actually a raisin. Noooo!!!!
Yum. I just made these easy delicious cookies for breakfast. I ate 2 straight out of the oven and LOVE them. I cannot wait for breakfast. A cup of tea will go great with the rest of those cookies. Thank you!
These just became a staple in our house. Yum. I used almond butter and apple sauce. I also added a few coconut flakes. Thank you for the delicious and healthy recipe!
Made these yesterday but substituted PB2 (powdered peanut butter that is magic) and the consistency came out very odd. I’m thinking the oil in the regular nut butter is essential! But they still taste fairly yummy! I’d say substituting the nut butter with PB2 cut out a lot of calories. I calculated that my cookies were about 25 calories each. But a 55 calorie cookie is great, so I think I’m going to try this again and follow the directions exactly. 🙂
Oh I meant to add that I also substituted one T of raisins with 1 T of dark chocolate unsweetened chips. About each cookie had one chip in it so gave it a more rich flavor.
love oatmeal raisin cookies 🙂 I think they are my favorite. My friends always think I’m “weird” being like, WHAT!? WHY DONT YOU LIKE CHOCOLATE CHIP!? and I’m like, sorry, can’t help it I love the gooeyness of a oatmeal raisin 🙂
SO I <3 raisins. My brother hates them tho- when we buy raisin bran you'll always find a good 10-20 raisins in the kitchen sink drain. *sigh*
I love this! I can’t wait to try them. I have been looking for a granola recipe, and I want to use the hot chocolate bars you posted and break them in to chunks and put them in the granola bars. I need some fast breakfast options I can make on a Sunday and eat through out the week! So I am so excited about these cookies, but also excited you’re working on some granola bars 😉
These were yummy! I used unsweetened applesauce, but I do want to try it with the banana, that would also taste yummy. I was also thinking of throwing some coconut in them, but I realized with dismay that I didn’t have any left in the house. Oh well, next time! 🙂 Left out the sugar entirely as well, the sweetness from the raisins is enough for me. Thanks for the great recipe, I plan on making these frequently!
These look so yummy! I love how you were able to make cookies healthy and breakfast-appropriate. Great job!