Another Morning with Banana, Blueberries and Oats (recipe included)
Made banana oatmeal cookies with dried blueberries this morning. A lower fat cookie with only 2 tablespoons of butter, 2 egg whites (instead of 1 egg) and 3/4 cups sugar (because the blueberries are sweet themselves), and one mashed ripe banana. With a tender crumb due to its soft, flaky oats, this treat was not super sweet, unlike regular oatmeal cookies or breakfast bars that are commercially available.
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lovedeniseh (85 months ago | reply)
That looks really healthy and perfect for breakfast!(: do you have a more complete recipe? I would love to give it a try.
Renée S. Suen (85 months ago | reply)
Hi "lovedeniseh" here's my "modified recipe". Feel free to substitute chocolate chips, raisins, cranberries, or whatever you might like. I think my next "combo" will be the same but with sweet potato, walnuts and date chunks instead of the blueberries. I like that banana-sweet potato-walnut-date combo quite a bit (but would reduce the sugar more due to the date's sweetness).
Banana Oatmeal Cookies
1 cup all purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
2 tbsp butter, softened
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 medium ripe banana, mashed
2 egg whites
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups oats
1 cup dried fruit/chocolate chips/nuts
Preheat oven to 350F.
Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
Cream together the butter and the sugars with a mixer. Beat in the egg whites and banana, then the vanilla extract.
Gradually add in the flour mixture on low speed.
Stir in the oats and dried fruit/chocolate chips.
Drop dough by tablespoonfuls onto a silpat lined baking sheet. You can flatten the tops a bit with moistened fingers or leave them domed shaped (which are more moist and muffin like - I did both, but the ones pictured are the non-flattened version).
Bake for 12-15 minutes at 350F, until set and lightly browned (10-13 min if you flatten the cookies).
Let cookies cool for about 5 minutes on the pan before transferring them to a wire rack to cool completely.
Makes about 2 dozen cookies.
lovedeniseh (85 months ago | reply)
I made them! but I replaced it with pumpkin seeds, it turned out to be really crispy and crunchy! see here!(: and THANK YOU.
Renée S. Suen (85 months ago | reply)
Denise: Oh wow, that's fantastic. I'm glad it turned out for you too! Enjoy :)
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grtful5 [deleted] (84 months ago | reply)
can't beat bananas and blueberries for a healthy snack! thanks for the recipe, i'll give it a try and see how my kids like it. :-)
Renée S. Suen (84 months ago | reply)
grtful5: I'd love to hear how it goes!
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