These Breakfast Banana Oatmeal Cookies are soft, chewy and incredibly easy to make! The perfect grab n’ go breakfast or quick snack loaded with healthy ingredients. This recipe is also vegan, gluten free and refined sugar free.
Have you ever woken up and just craved cookies for breakfast? Yeah, me too.
Well friends, look no further because today I’m bringing you a vegan banana oatmeal cookie recipe that is not only highly delicious, but also healthy enough to eat for breakfast!
These cookies kind of remind me of banana muffins or banana bread. They’re soft, chewy and kinda fluffy… yet still have all the properties of a cookie- I mean just look at ’em! Charming.
Secrets to the Best Healthy Banana Oatmeal Cookies
First things first, we need to talk about the kind of oats used to make perfect flourless banana oatmeal cookies: quick oats. I tested them with rolled oats but they were kind of too thick and dense for my liking but quick oats keeps these cookies perfectly soft and chewy. I also added in some almond flour for some healthy fats and it gives it a lighter texture.
Since these are oatmeal cookies, we’re going back to the basics. These cookies are made with a base of the oldest (and the best IMO) healthy baking tricks out there: bananas. Bananas are a great oil and egg replacer because it keeps these oatmeal cookies moist while binding the rest of the ingredients together so they actually form a cookie.
Next, I wanted to opt for a refined sugar free sweetener so of course, I turned to my ever so favourite coconut sugar. If you want to keep these low in sugar or sugar free, you can totally reduce or omit the sugar to your liking.
Now lets talk flavours. Because I already knew I wanted to make chocolate banana oatmeal cookies, what better pairing is there than peanut butter? Again, you can totally use another nut or seed butter or even omit it all together and replace it with a bit more banana.
The thing I love about these chewy banana oatmeal cookies is that you can really add almost anything to them!
Don’t want to have chocolate for breakfast? Totally understandable– go with your favourite dried fruit like raisins or cranberries and chopped nuts like walnuts or almonds. Ouuu, flaked coconut or even fresh blueberries would be totes delicious. There are no rules to these cookies ya’ll.
How to Make Breakfast Banana Oatmeal Cookies
These easy banana oatmeal cookies are not only are made with the simplest of ingredients, but they’re also ready in about 15 minutes– perfect for mornings!
- Mash the banana and stir in the coconut sugar, peanut butter, vanilla, cinnamon and salt.
- Add in the quick oats, almond flour, baking powder and mix until a dough forms.
- Fold in any of your favourite add-ins.
- Mold them into cookies and bake them up for 15 minutes!
They’re just as easy as making a bowl of oatmeal, wouldn’t you say?
Tips For Vegan Oatmeal Banana Cookies
- Use ripe bananas: Use fresh, riper bananas for better and sweeter cookies.
- No Quick Oats: No problem! Take your rolled oats and blitz them in the food processor a couple times until it resembles quick oats. If you really want to use rolled oats, I recommend letting the cookie batter sit for 10 minutes so they have time to absorb the moisture. Be sure to use gluten free certified oats to make gluten free banana oatmeal cookies.
- Re-heat Leftovers: I think they taste better warm so I microwave them for around 10 seconds and they taste like they just came out of the oven!
How to Store
- Refrigerator: keep them in a air tight container covered for up to 4 days.
- Freezer: once cooled, store them in a freezer safe container or bag for up to 3 months. They defrost quite quickly but you can microwave them for a few seconds to warm them up.
I hope you try and love these Vegan Breakfast Banana Oatmeal Cookies as much as I do! They are delightful with a cup of coffee, by the way. 😉
Wishing you all many happy mornings to come with these delectable breakfast cookies ❤️
More Vegan Breakfasts Made with Bananas!
- Vegan Banana Blender Muffins
- Healthy Banana Oatmeal Bars
- Vegan Banana Protein Muffins
- Easy Vegan Banana Bread
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Breakfast Banana Oatmeal Cookies
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 10 cookies 1x
Description
These Vegan Breakfast Banana Oatmeal Cookies are soft, chewy and incredibly easy to make! The perfect grab n’ go breakfast or quick snack loaded with healthy ingredients.
Ingredients
- 1 extra large ripe banana (3/4 cup // 175g)
- 1/4 cup coconut sugar (50g // can omit or reduce amount)
- 2 tbsp peanut butter (30g // or nut/seed butter of choice)
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 1/4 cup gluten free quick oats (112g)
- 1/2 cup almond flour (58)
- 1 tsp baking powder
Optional Add-ins:
- 1/4 cup chocolate chips (40g)
- 1/3 cup chopped walnuts (39g // or nuts of choice)
- 1/4 cup sunflower seeds (46g // or seeds of choice)
- 1/3 cup blueberries (50g)
- 1/3 cup raisins (48g // or dried fruit of choice)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F (180 C).
- Into a mixing bowl, mash the banana until pureed. Add in the coconut sugar, peanut butter, vanilla, cinnamon and salt and mix to combine.
- Add in the quick oats, almond flour and baking powder and mix until a dough forms. Fold in any add-ins if using.
- Divide the dough into 9-10 equal sized cookies. Roll them into balls and then flatten them with the palm of your hands. Place onto to lined cookie sheet and bake for 15 minutes, rotating the tray half way.
- Let them cool on the baking sheet for 3-4 minutes and then transfer them to a wire rack to cool for another 5 minutes before eating.
Notes
- Storage: Keep cookies in an air tight container covered, refrigerated for up to 4 days.
- Helpful Equipment: mixing bowls, spatula, cookie baking sheet, parchment paper, silpat
- Nutritional Information Disclaimer: Nutrition information is a rough estimate calculated on an online tool (Cronometer) without add-ins.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Category: breakfast
- Method: baking
- Cuisine: vegan, gluten free
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 145
- Sugar: 8.1
- Sodium: 168mg
- Fat: 6.5
- Saturated Fat: 1.3
- Unsaturated Fat: 4.7
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 19.7
- Fiber: 2.9
- Protein: 3.5
- Cholesterol: 0
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Fantastic recipe! I followed it exactly, except I used gf rolled oats. Then stored the mix it in the fridge overnight. Added raisins in the morning and baked them for breakfast!! Not at all dense n mooshy like banana breakfast cookies tend to be. The moisture was absorbed and made for a light cookie with a slightly crisper outside. Thanks for sharing and inspiring!
My 3-year old and I made these this morning and they were a hit! We added chocolate chips and coconut. We were out of almond flour so used some gluten free baking flourinstead and the cookies still turned out great. Will definitely make again!
I’ve probably made these 5 times in a row now! I do like to add 2 tbsp of mochiko flour just to give the cookies a little chew (something I’ve learned from your other cookie recipes). Highly recommend!
Love these! A meal prep essential!
amazing love it did it 2 times ,, not too much sugar ,, no eggs ,, recommended 👍🏻
Made these tonight and they were so good! I did your whole oat-blitzing trick and used an extremely ripe banana, brown sugar and added some chocolate chips and dried cranberries. Will be keeping the recipe and playing around with it, it can be super healthty or dessert! Thank you!
So glad you hear you enjoyed these Sonia!
What should I use instead of coconut sugar and almond flour due too my allergies?
Hi Amari! You can use cane sugar instead of coconut or any dry sugar. As for almond flour, can you use any other nut flour?
These came out perfectly! I didn’t add any extra sweetener and just tossed in a second smaller banana and more chocolate chips! Absolute perfection.
Scrumptious! Subbed whole wheat flour and added chocolate chips. Reminds me of a baked energy ball – soft and delicious 🙂
So happy to hear you enjoyed! 🙂
Super easy and quick recipe! delicious!
Happy to hear you enjoyed this recipe! Thank you 🙂