Banana Peanut Butter Breakfast Cookies with Whole Wheat, Oats, and Dried Blueberries
Yield: 18 large cookies
These breakfast cookies incorporate so many of the good things that I turn to for energy and nutrients at the start of the day.
Ingredients
- ½ c. unsalted butter softened
- ½ c. creamy peanut butter
- ½ c. packed brown sugar
- 3 T. honey
- 2 large very ripe bananas mashed
- 2 eggs
- 2 tsp. pure vanilla extract
- 1.25 c. white whole wheat flour
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- ¼ tsp. kosher salt
- 3 c. old fashioned oats
- 2 c. crispy rice cereal
- 1 c. dried blueberries
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350° F.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, combine butter and peanut butter. Beat on medium speed until just incorporated. Add brown sugar and honey, and beat until mixed together. Add bananas, eggs, and vanilla. Beat well. Then add whole wheat flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt, and beat until just combined. With a spatula, fold in the oats, rice cereal, and dried blueberries.
- Using a large cookie scoop (or about 3 tablespoons), drop mounds of dough onto ungreased cookie sheets. These cookies hardly spread, so you can place the dough mounds pretty close together on the cookie sheets if you like.
- Bake for 15 to 16 minutes, until cookies are set and lightly browned. Let cookies cool on cookie sheet for 1 minute before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
- These cookies are best when eaten freshly baked, when the exteriors have a thin crispiness to them. But they are also good the next day after a few seconds in the microwave to warm them up, when the exterior texture is softer. T
- hese cookies freeze beautifully, both before and after you bake them. So if you like that just-baked texture best of all, simply freeze the dough in its scooped-up cookie form, and then bake it up fresh whenever you like, adding a minute or two of extra baking time.
Notes
From a farmgirl’s dabbles, inspired by my sister’s monster cookies recipe.
Nutrition Information:
Serving: 1 Calories: 236kcal Carbohydrates: 32g Protein: 6g Fat: 10g Saturated Fat: 4g Polyunsaturated Fat: 5g Cholesterol: 34mg Sodium: 165mg Fiber: 3g Sugar: 11g
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