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Healthy Breakfast Cookies

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Is it possible to have cookies for breakfast?  Well, with these Healthy Breakfast Cookies, I don’t’ feel guilty giving my children cookies for breakfast.  This recipe doesn’t have butter and I use oats as the “flour”. Or you can just use oat flour which I make by blending it until it’s resembles a fine powder.

Oat flour is good for you! I read this on Minimalist Baker, “For starters, 1/2 cup of oat flour has 80 fewer calories and 20 fewer grams carbohydrates than 1/2 cup of whole wheat flour. They’re also high in iron, magnesium and fiber, and contain the amino acid lysine, which promotes replenishment of body tissues like muscles and nerves – this makes them an excellent food staple for fitness junkies. Oats can also help lower cholesterol levels and help us feel fuller longer. Seriously, super power food in the house.”

I like my cookies crispy so if you do too, make sure to leave them in the oven another minute or two.  My hubby likes them soft and chewy so I only baked them for 9-10 minutes for their batch.  Also, I experimented with different cookie ingredients and I used the same recipe below but added two eggs and I got a totally different cookie. This is what it looked like, fluffy and soft.  Well, it’s a bit different because we added M & M’s to the batter. So basically, this batch I used the exact same recipe below but changed the eggs, using two eggs for this fluffy cookie below.

healthy monster cookies

I personally don’t care for fluffy, soft cookies so I made another batch with just one egg and I got this beautiful cookie below!

healthy breakfast cookies

Healthy Breakfast Cookies

  • 3/4 cups rolled oats
  • 1 tablespoons flaxseed meal (ground flaxseed)
  • 1 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 1/3 cups natural peanut butter
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla
  • 1/3 cup brown sugar (I use raw brown sugar)
  • 1/3 cup mini chocolate chips or white chocolate chips or M&M’s
  • 3 tablespoons melted coconut oil (this is also optional, I’ve made it without it and it turned out just fine)

optional: 1/3 cup dried cranberries, 1/3 cup pecans or walnuts

Directions:

1. Mix oats, flaxseed and baking soda in a small bowl.

2. Cream eggs, peanut butter, vanilla and sugar.

3. Slowly add flour mixture to wet ingredients and chill dough for 20 minutes.

4. Place in a cookie sheet (I use a baking mat so I never grease by cookie sheet). Bake for 9 to 10 minutes at 350. The cookies may look underbaked, don’t worry they will solidfy and take form once they are cool.  For crispy cookies, bake for up to 12 minutes.

healthy breakfast cookies

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  1. Margaret says

    May 5, 2014 at 4:14 pm

    I didn’t see an oven temp in the recipe.

    Gonna try these tomorrow, looks yummy 🙂

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  2. Inspired by Family Mag says

    May 5, 2014 at 4:59 pm

    Margaret, Ha, glad you caught that. Warning they are so good that you may find yourself eating one too many in the name of “it’s healthy”. 🙂 ~mari

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