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These easy Breakfast Cookies made with peanut butter and banana are the perfect healthy start to your mornings! So simple to make, healthy, high in protein, gluten-free, sugar-free, and ideal for kids.
Healthy Breakfast Cookies are a perfect for start to the day when you’re on the go. Especially when time is tight and the chances of breakfast are slipping away.
BUT have you seen how expensive shop-bought breakfast biscuits are?! They are also often highly processed with lots of additives and sugar.
Here’s my solution. I love how simple these banana oat cookies are to make and the fact that I know exactly what’s gone into them. Ingredients are cheap and they taste amazing. All round winner.
They’re made using very ripe (in fact, the blacker the better) bananas, oats, peanut butter, cinnamon and chocolate chips are optional.
This is a no-flour recipe, which means these are gluten-free Breakfast Cookies, (if you use GF oats) and there’s no refined sugar (you can also omit the honey if you prefer).
I hope you enjoy these to start your day with a nice cuppa, or put them in your kids’ hands as they run out the door to school… perfect!
Why you’ll love this Breakfast Cookies recipe
⭐️ Healthy, delicious breakfast option
⭐️ So convenient for out and about
⭐️ Make a batch ahead for ease
Other make-ahead breakfast options
Breakfast is often the meal people miss the most. Busy mornings without the time to put into making a healthy meal means it often goes on the back burner.
But a good breakfast sets you up for the day and stops those pesky cravings later on. My saviour is make-ahead breakfasts that have been batch-cooked when I’ve had more time, meaning my future frantic morning self is saved from a rumbling tummy!
Here are a few other options to get you organised:
Breakfast Cookies Ingredients notes
- Bananas – These need to be very ripe for mashing, NOT firm or green at all. The banana skins should be very speckled, or (ideally) almost totally brown or black on the skins. Think ‘past their best’ as a piece of fruit for snacking on
- Chocolate chips – You can leave these out if you prefer, but they do add a bit of deliciousness
How to make Breakfast Cookies
- Throw everything in a bowl (but only half of the chocolate chips) and mush up (technical term).
- Scoop out 8 portions onto a baking paper-lined baking tray, press in the remaining chocolate chips and bake for 20 minutes.
- Bake until golden-topped and cooked through. Done.
Substitutions
- Dried fruit or other toppings – Feel free to experiment with what you add into the mixture. For example, dried apricots instead of the choc chips etc
Leftovers
In the fridge You can keep this recipe in the fridge for a day or two.
In the freezer If you want a bigger batch of cookies, you could freeze the baked cookies and take them out to defrost the night before you’ll eat them, which is so handy for busy mornings.
Top tip
The bananas need to be very ripe. Did you know that ripe bananas have so much more natural sweetness than very yellow bananas?
When we have bananas left uneaten I just pop them in the freezer for whenever I need a ripe banana, which is great for reducing food waste.
More delicious breakfast recipes…
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Lunch Ideas
Frittata Recipe {Smoked Salmon and Broccoli}
FAQs
This recipe makes 8 BIG cookies. They’ll be good the next day if stored in an airtight container. If they are a little dry, you can microwave them for about 30 seconds to refresh them.
Let me know how you got on and what you thought of these recipes. Please rate the recipe using the ⭐️ below.
Also I’d LOVE to see your cooking creations. If you’d like to share yours with me, you can tag me on Instagram (@tamingtwins).
Breakfast Cookies {5 Ingredient Recipe!}
Ingredients
- 3 Bananas, Peeled
- 200 g (7 oz) Rolled oats
- 100 g (3.5 oz) Smooth peanut butter
- 50 g (2 oz) Runny honey
- 1 tsp Ground cinnamon
- 40g (1.5 oz) Chocolate chips, Optional
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180℃ fan/200℃/Gas Mark 6/350F.
- Put everything into a bowl and mash and mix together very well. (Add half of the chocolate chips if using.)
- Scoop out into 8 cookie shapes on a lined baking tray. (Press the remaining chocolate chips in if using).
- Bake for 20 minutes. Allow to cool before moving from the baking tray to allow them to set.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
This post was originally published on July 6, 2022 and updated later to make improvements.
My 7 year old loves these! Such a great breakfast to have ready to go on those busy school mornings.
Made these so many times thought I should leave a review!! These are a life saver as someone that eats their breakfast in the office. So easy to make a batch on a Sunday night and pack one up every day for work.
I add some grated courgette to moisten it further and I also make them into 6 cookies rather than 8 as I have a big morning appetite!
Honestly such a lifesaver, definitely a keeper for me going forwards.
Absolutely superb!! A great sized portion to fix your hunger, and fantastic with a cuppa..! Really good for batch baking, guaranteed snack to suit everyone (and smells wonderful, to boot…) Cranberries work really well for flavour combination..
Very easy to make and a great treat breakfast item for something different to our usual overnut oats. The banana and peanut butter combo is delicious. I used 40g of broken up 85 percent cocoa chocolate and it worked really well. Thank you.
Thankyou so much for these. These will to k a box for my GF 20 somethings racing out the door.
Thankyou!!! Xxx
My kids loved it! Super easy to make. 👍
Anyone used maple syrup instead of honey? I can’t find ours and I’m wondering if it’ll work 😅
Hi, I used golden syrup instead and it worked well, also Maple Syrup – this made crumblier biscuits 😁 still delicious though – children love them! (And me too of course 🤣)
These sound great but our school is nut-free-is it possible to substitute the peanut butter for something please?
I was intrigued by this banana recipe but was disappointed. Maybe it’s because I subbed applesauce for the bananas, and didn’t use any bananas as my grandson can’t have them. They didn’t bind or set up well at all and I expected them to spread out a bit, which they didn’t. They tasted fine, though.
So you’ve basically made a completely different recipe and weren’t happy with it but have given this one 3 stars? 😂
Replying so I can give it 5 stars because it was easy to put together and it tastes delicious. Thank you!
So let get this straight…. You are complaining that the recipe didn’t work, because you didn’t follow the recipe???
What a ridiculous comment/ review!