Use up your leftover bananas and get your sweet fix with these simple, healthy and delicious banana and oat cookies
Sometimes we all need a sweet treat. But instead of grabbing a chocolate bar, tub of ice cream or dunking the fourth biscuit into your cuppa, why not make these quick and simple banana and oat cookies for a homemade treat?
Eat these cookies while they are warm or store them in Tupperware for a weekly snack. They can also be made vegan by swapping the honey for some agave nectar.
Ingredients
Prep time – 5 minutes Cooking time – 15 minutes
- 2 medium ripe bananas
- 160g oats
- 80g smooth cashew butter (peanut butter works just as well)
- 1 tbsp cinnamon
- 2 heaped tbsp honey
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180C and line a tray with baking parchment.
- Mash up the bananas with a fork then add in the oats, cinnamon, honey and cashew butter.
- Mix well until everything is combined.
- Using a tablespoon, dollop spoonfuls of mixture onto the baking parchment.
- Bake for around 15 minutes until the edges and slightly browned and they aren’t too soft to touch.
Optional extras: Stir in a handful of chocolate chips, raisins or seeds of your choosing.
