Healthy Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Breakfast Cookies
Healthy peanut butter chocolate chip breakfast cookies are the perfect guilt-free “dessert-like” breakfast. If you enjoy soft-baked cookies or granola bars, you’ll love these cookies! With two overripe bananas, you can make these breakfast cookies that you want to eat. These cookies are packed with rolled oats, peanut butter, chopped peanuts, dark chocolate, banana, and honey.
Tips for Making the Best Breakfast Cookies
Are you looking to make the best healthy peanut butter chocolate chip breakfast cookies? Check out these tips to make the best breakfast cookies out there!
Don’t Overbake The Cookies
These are soft-baked cookies, and can easily be overbaked. The cookies are very soft and can look like they are underbaked. Follow the cooking times in the recipe below and make sure to take the cookies out of the oven before the bottoms burn.
Scoop the Cookies Into Mounds
Healthy peanut butter chocolate chip breakfast cookies are not like typical cookies. Unlike other cookie recipes, you will be scooping dough like other cookies. Instead, scoop the cookies on parchment paper into cookie “mounds”. The cookie mounds will bake together to become cookies.
Save A Few Peanuts and Chocolate Chips
To make your breakfast cookie look just a bit cuter, set aside a few of your chocolate chips and chopped peanuts to add to the top of the cookies. 🙂
Are Breakfast Cookies Healthy?
Breakfast cookies are healthy alternatives to regular cookies. These cookies use whole-grain oats, all-natural sweeteners, and protein from the peanut butter. These soft-baked breakfast cookies use bananas as a binder.
Healthy Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Breakfast Cookies Ingredients
All of the ingredients in these pantry-staple breakfast cookies. Healthy cookies are the perfect cookies.
Bananas: Use 2 overripened bananas in these cookies.
Creamy Peanut Butter: You can use crunchy peanut butter or creamy peanut or almond butter. Choose your favorite nut butter. I prefer creamy peanut butter.
Old-Fashioned Oats: Use old-fashioned oats or rolled oats instead of quick-cooked oats. Old-fashioned oats will have the right texture. Quick cook oats can turn out mushy.
Chopped Peanuts: Chopped peanuts add a nice crunch to breakfast cookies. Use unsalted dry roasted peanuts.
Dark Chocolate Chips: Pick your favorite chocolate chips (we like dark chocolate chips) or chocolate chunks.
Honey: You’ll want to use honey as your natural sweetener in this recipe. The honey helps to hold together the cookies. Don’t use other sweeteners in these cookies like agave or brown sugar, since the cookies will not hold together the same way.
How to Make Healthy Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Breakfast Cookies
These healthy peanut butter chocolate chip breakfast cookies are so easy to make–you’ll want to make them all the time.
- Preheat the oven to 350℉ and line a baking pan with parchment paper.
- Add the mashed banana, peanut butter, honey, and vanilla to a large bowl. Add in the milk. Mix until combined. Add in the remaining ingredients and stir the cookies well. The mixture will be wet.
- Form 1/4 cup-sized cookies and place them on a lined baking sheet. Bake for 15-18 minutes at 350℉.
- The cookies are soft (they will have a similar texture to a soft cereal bar). Let the cookies cool on the pan for at least 10-15 minutes before you try to move them to keep the cookies from breaking.
Budget-Saving Pantry Breakfast
This recipe uses pantry staples only. You should have all of the ingredients for your breakfast cookies. As long as you have peanut butter, banana, honey, oats, chocolate chips, and peanuts you have all that you need to make these cookies.
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Healthy Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Breakfast Cookies
Print RecipeIngredients
- 1/4 cup unsweetened almond milk
- 2 bananas mashed
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup peanut butter
- 1/2 cup chopped peanuts
- 1/4 tsp of salt
- 2 1/2 cup oats
- 1/2 cup dark chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350℉ and line a baking pan with parchment paper.
- Add the mashed banana, peanut butter, honey, and vanilla to a large bowl. Add in the milk. Mix until combined. Add in the remaining ingredients and stir the cookies well. The mixture will be wet.
- Form 1/4 cup-sized cookies and place them on a lined baking sheet. Bake for 15-18 minutes at 350℉.
- The cookies are soft (they will have a similar texture to a soft cereal bar). Let the cookies cool on the pan for at least 10-15 minutes before you try to move them to keep the cookies from breaking.
