Recipe: Perfect Peanut butter and banana oat "cookies"

Peanut butter and banana oat "cookies". These simple, naturally-sweetened peanut butter banana oatmeal cookies are the perfect healthy treat for a school or work lunchbox. With just a few ingredients, these simple peanut butter banana oatmeal cookies are so easy to make! The rest are just bonus ingredients! Check out the video below where I used just banana, peanut butter, oats and chocolate chips. Remove from the oven and enjoy the oat cookies immediately.

How to make flourless peanut butter oatmeal cookies from scratch The Ingredients. Peanut Butter-Any smooth and creamy peanut butter will work. I LOVE the sweet and salty combination, so my peanut butter is slightly salted. You can have Peanut butter and banana oat "cookies" using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Peanut butter and banana oat "cookies"

1. Prepare 1 of medium very ripe banana.
2. You need 1 cup of peanut butter (I used a mix of almond and peanut).
3. It's 1.5 tbsp. of honey, melted.
4. It's 1 tbsp. of brown sugar.
5. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
6. Prepare 1/4 tsp of salt.
7. You need half of a tsp cinnamon.
8. Prepare 1 of and quarter cups of oats.

Rolled Oats- Also called old fashioned oats, they provide a chewier texture than quick-cooking oats. Add QUICK COOKING, not old fashioned, oats and peanuts. <- CRUNCHY SALTY YUMS. Line a baking sheet with parchment. Mash the bananas with a fork in a large bowl.

Peanut butter and banana oat "cookies" instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 180˚c. Mash the banana in a bowl and add the nut butters. Mix until well combined..
2. Add the honey, vanilla, salt, sugar and cinnamon and stir again..
3. Blitz 1 cup of the oats in a food processor for a few seconds (they don't need to fully blitzed, just slightly ground up). Add to the bowl with the other quarter of un-blitzed oats and mix well with the other ingredients..
4. Line a baking tray with parchment paper and use a desert spoon to measure your balls of cookie "dough". It will be a sticky mixture, similar to flapjack dough. Use your hands to form the cookies into a ball and place onto the parchment, evenly spaced apart. (the cookies wont spread as much as regular ones)..
5. Cook for about 15 minutes. Check them after this time - they should start to crisp on the top and should sound hollow when tapped on the bottom. If not, give them another 5 minutes or so. You can turn the oven down a little if they are browning too much..
6. Enjoy with a nice cup of tea! (or a hot choc like my kiddies!).

Add peanut butter, oatmeal. banana, sugar, chocolate chips, and vanilla extract. Plus, those vegan banana oatmeal cookies have no added sugar and they are kids friendly. I already shared two of them lately that I invite you to check out : This post is sponsored by Espressotoria. The opinions and text are all mine. Who doesn't want to start the day with a cookie?