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Banana Coconut Breakfast Cookies

Last Updated July 23, 2024

Do you like cookies? Would you like to eat cookies for breakfast, or anytime? Then these cookies are for you, because they’re delicious and also healthy!

These Coconut Banana Breakfast Cookies have no refined sugar. Think bananas, coconut, pecans, and apricots with a light touch of maple syrup and oats. Of course, I practically just gave you the whole ingredient list so let's just get baking, shall we?? 

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Banana Coconut Breakfast Cookies

Makes about 15 cookies

Ingredients:

  • 1 1/2 cups / 135g quick oats

  • 1 cup / 80g unsweetened flaked or shredded coconut

  • 2/3 cup / 66g pecan halves, coarsely chopped

  • 1/4 cup / 35g almonds, coarsely chopped

  • 1 Tbsp / 10g flax seeds

  • 1/2 tsp salt

  • 1/2 cup / 65g dried apricots, chopped

  • 3 / 300g very ripe bananas, mashed

  • 1/4 cup / 56g coconut oil, melted

  • 1 Tbsp / 20g maple syrup

  • 1 tsp / 5g vanilla extract

Directions:

Oven 350°F / 177°C

  1. In a medium bowl, stir together oats, coconut, pecans, flax, salt, and apricots. Add bananas, coconut oil, maple syrup, and vanilla until combined. 

  2. Spoon generous mounds onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or silpat

  3. Bake 23-25 minutes, until lightly golden. 

Jenny's Notes:

  • Recipes like this are great because they can be so easily adapted to your tastes, or simply to change it up.  Feel free to use any kind of nuts you wish, or a combination of several, change up the dried fruit, or use honey instead of maple syrup.  I recommend also trying dried blueberries and dried cherries!

  • You can use rolled oats for these cookies in place of the quick oats. I've found that in most recipes the different kind of oats can be interchanged without affecting the quality of your product. Just keep in mind that rolled oats are slightly less absorbent than quick oats, so you may need to add slightly more.

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