Healthy oatmeal cookies
Oatmeal cookies without sugar, eggs, butter, and flour, made with just two ingredients – that sounds too good to be true! At least, that's what I thought when I read about simple, healthy, and vegan oatmeal cookies made solely from oats and bananas.
- 2 bananas (very ripe)
- 160 grams of rolled oats (quick-cooking)
- 80 grams of dried fruit (such as prunes or apricots)
- 2 tablespoons of crunchy peanut butter
- Cinnamon
- Vanilla
- Sugar-free chocolate drops
- Puree the ripe bananas into a smooth mash. Preheat the oven to 175 degrees Celsius (350 degrees Fahrenheit) using conventional oven settings (top and bottom heat). For the basic version, simply mix the mashed bananas well with the rolled oats. See tips for variations.
- Form small balls and place them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Gently flatten the cookies with your hands or a spoon. Bake for about 15 minutes.
I love oatmeal just as much as bananas. The latter need to be really ripe for this baking recipe so that the cookies actually benefit from their natural sweetness. It's just a shame that fruit always seems to go bad and spoiled when you least want it. But if, like for this healthy cookie recipe, you absolutely need old, brown bananas, they simply don't go bad – I speak from experience . So, you'd better buy bananas in advance! Unlike my sugar-free chocolate chip cookies or the low-carb cookies, where sugar is replaced with erythritol or xylitol, these two-ingredient oatmeal cookies get by without sugar (substitutes), sweeteners, or natural sweeteners like honey. This makes them the perfect homemade baby cookies or cookies for health-conscious snackers. And a delicious alternative to classic oatmeal cookies.
The preparation is simple. First, the bananas need to be mashed; then the rolled oats are added to the banana mash. Finally, the cookies go into the oven for a quarter of an hour—better a little underbaked than overbaked. I tested three variations for you. One batch of cookies with just two ingredients, one enhanced with a little peanut butter and cinnamon, and one with chopped dried fruit like raisins, apricots, or prunes (and, I admit, a tiny bit of chocolate).
Variations of vegan oatmeal cookies without sugar
Of course, these two variations are no longer quite as low-calorie as the oatmeal cookies from the basic recipe; depending on the recipe, it's no longer entirely accurate to say that the oatmeal cookies are completely free of sugar and butter. However, compared to regular cookies, they are still very healthy.
Now for the most important part – the taste. Hey, they turned out really delicious and moist! However, to be honest, especially the version with dried fruit, as it simply has more oomph. Something else you should know: due to the lack of fat, they won't be as crispy as usual.
The taste of healthy 2-ingredient cookies with rolled oats
A little finely chopped chocolate in the cookie dough makes the cookies even more delicious, of course … Of course, you can't compare extremely low-calorie oatmeal cookies to chewy cookies or chocolate cookies with a molten caramel center. But they're perfect when you need to use up ripe bananas.
Would you like to try these healthy, sugar-free cookies? Or these healthy children's cookies, or one of the many healthy children's snacks? You can also find many more great and balanced baking recipes in my eBook "Clean Baking - Natural Baking".
2 bananas, 160 grams rolled oats, 80 grams dried fruit, 2 tablespoons peanut butter, cinnamon, vanilla, sugar-free chocolate chips. Puree the ripe bananas into a smooth puree. Preheat the oven to 175 degrees Celsius (350 degrees Fahrenheit). For the basic version, simply mix the puree well with the rolled oats. See tips for variations.
