Peanut butter and banana oat "cookies"

Susy Wall
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!

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Ingredients

20 minutes
8 - 10 cookies
  1. 1medium very ripe banana
  2. 1 cuppeanut butter (I used a mix of almond and peanut)
  3. 1.5 tbsp.honey, melted
  4. 1 tbsp.brown sugar
  5. 1 tspvanilla extract
  6. 1/4 tspsalt
  7. halfa tsp cinnamon
  8. 1and quarter cups of oats

Cooking Instructions

20 minutes
  1. 1

    Preheat the oven to 180˚c. Mash the banana in a bowl and add the nut butters. Mix until well combined.

  2. 2

    Add the honey, vanilla, salt, sugar and cinnamon and stir again.

  3. 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. 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. 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. 6

    Enjoy with a nice cup of tea! (or a hot choc like my kiddies!)

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Claire
Claire @teaAndBiscuits
I'm making these again. They were great as healthy treat snacks for my kids. This time I added a bit of coconut and raisins

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Susy Wall
Susy Wall @singing_chef
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West Midlands, UK
I'm passionate about homemade food from scratch - mostly healthy, sometimes gluten or dairy free and often vegetarian
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