Peanut butter and banana oat "cookies"

Name: Peanut butter and banana oat "cookies"
Total time: 1200 s
Yield: 8 - 10 cookies
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 1 medium very ripe banana; 1 cup peanut butter (I used a mix of almond and peanut); 1.5 tbsp. honey, melted; 1 tbsp. brown sugar; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 1/4 tsp salt; half a tsp cinnamon; 1 and quarter cups of oats

Susy Wall @singing_chef

West Midlands, UK

I had a banana that was looking a tad over ripe so decided to go and look for a way to use it up that wasn't banana bread! I have adapted a recipe I found online (a latte food) but have left out a lot of the sugar and maple syrup as the honey and banana give it all the sweetness we need (but you could add more if you like). Also, I added lots more nut butter as this is my favourite bit!

Susy Wall @singing_chef

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Ingredients

20 minutes

8 - 10 cookies

1medium very ripe banana
1 cuppeanut butter (I used a mix of almond and peanut)
1.5 tbsp.honey, melted
1 tbsp.brown sugar
1 tspvanilla extract
1/4 tspsalt
halfa tsp cinnamon
1and quarter cups of oats

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Steps

20 minutes

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!)