If you are looking for the perfect healthy fall breakfast idea, then you need to try these healthy Chai-Spiced Breakfast Cookies! Curl up with a hot chai tea latte and your favorite cozy fall sweater for the best, nutritious breakfast cookie that you have ever had. All the warmth of your favorite fall beverage in a cookie. Could it get any better?

Oh yes, it can. These Chai-Spiced Breakfast Cookies are also packed with protein and made with clean-eating ingredients. Use a few of your favorite chai tea bags to whip up some cookies with all the fall vibes… All the good & all the fall feels.

It’s gonna be a good day.

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What are Breakfast Cookies

Breakfast cookies are traditionally, healthy cookies that are made for breakfast. They are often softer in texture (like a soft-baked granola bar or cereal bar).

Breakfast cookies are often made using oats, applesauce, nut butter, and or mashed bananas. Typically, a breakfast cookie will have protein (most recipes will use some type of nut butter) and will use healthy less-refined sweeteners like honey or pure maple syrup. Use clean and nutritious ingredients in these breakfast cookies to help to charge you up for your day ahead.

Chai-Spiced Breakfast Cookies are packed with protein (almond butter & chopped walnuts), sweetened with honey, and made with whole grains (from the rolled oats).

How to Make Your Cookies Gluten-Free and or Dairy-Free

You can easily enjoy these cookies with allergin or dietary restrictions. Follow the steps below to ensure that your ingredients are adjusted to your preferences / dietary needs.

Gluten-free: Double-check that the oats that you are using are gluten-free. Everything else should be safe.

Dairy-Free: Swap white chocolate chips for vegan white chocolate chips. Use non-dairy milk (like almond milk) for the chai concentrate.

Can I Make Chai-Spiced Breakfast Cookies Vegan?

You can easily make these cookies vegan without much extra work. Chai-Spiced Breakfast Cookies are chock-full of clean-eating ingredients, and since they are made without eggs– you can easily make these cookies vegan by simply using dairy-free white chocolate chips and non-dairy milk.

How to Make Chai-Spiced Breakfast Cookies

These cookies are super easy to mix up. You can even mix them in one bowl!

Hello, easy cleanup.

Follow the steps below to whip up THE best fall breakfast cookie.

Preheat the oven to 350℉ and line a baking pan with parchment paper.
Before you mix the cookie ingredients, you will need to make the concentrated chai tea. To do this, heat 1/4 cup of unsweet almond milk in the microwave for 20 seconds. Place 2 of your favorite brand of chai tea bags into the warm milk and let it steep for 4-5 minutes. The aroma of the milk should be intense. We want to make a very strong, milky chai tea to mix into the chai cookies so that the cookies have a nice subtle (but noticeable) warm chai flavor. Remove the tea bags after the steeping is completed, and squeeze the bags to remove the excess milk.
Add the mashed banana, almond butter, honey, and vanilla to a large bowl. After it steeps, add in the chai-infused milk. Mix the dough. Add in the remaining ingredients and stir the cookies well. The cookie dough is a wet dough.
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.

Tips for the Best Chai-Spiced Breakfast Cookies

Below are a few of my best tips to make these chai-spice breakfast cookies the BEST breakfast cookies you have ever tried.

Let the Cookies Sit on the Tray to Firm up After Baking

These cookies are soft. The texture is similar to a soft-baked cereal bar or granola bar. With that being said, they are at their most vulnerable state when they just come out of the oven. For best results, let the cookies cool before attempting to remove them from the baking sheet.

Wet Your Hands, As Needed, Between Shaping the Cookies

The cookie “dough” does not form a hard dough. This “dough” will be a bit sticky and will feel a bit “loose”–THAT’S OKAY.

Instead of rolling cookie balls, we will want to plop portions of the cookie dough on the sheet pan and shape it together to form the cookie shape. They will bake together nicely to form a soft cookie. If needed, between cookies, you can wet your hands with water to help you shape and form the cookies without too much of a “stick.” I like to also press down on the top of my cookies to flatten them a bit.

Top Your Cookies with a Few Extra White Chocolate Chips

Whenever I make cookies with chips, I like to reserve a handful of chips to place on top of the cookies right before they bake. This doesn’t improve the taste of the cookies, but it does look prettier! 🙂

How to Make Chai-Spiced Breakfast Cookies

Budget Saving Tips for this Recipe

Buy Your Almond Butter at ALDI
- ALDI has one of the BEST deals on almond butter out there. $3.99 for a jar (at my store). This recipe uses about half of that jar of almond butter. But in terms of protein– this is a pretty inexpensive way to get in some extra protein.
Purchase Chopped Walnuts
- Make sure to get the chopped walnut. Not only does this make your job easier, BUT nuts get less expensive the less “whole” that they are. Walnuts are no exception! Chopped walnuts are the least expensive type of walnuts that you can purchase.
Use Up Ripened Bananas
- Don’t let your bananas go to waste! Bananas are the ultimate low-waste food because even after they start to brown, you can still use them in delicious baked goods like this one! If your bananas start to brown before you have time to use them up, you can chop them into pieces and freeze them in a freezer-safe container. For baking recipes like this one, defrost your bananas 1 day before you plan on baking.

More Easy Fall Breakfast Ideas

It’s cozy season! Let’s enjoy this season with easy breakfast recipes that will make you feel like you are wrapped up in your favorite sweater. Wake up to a cozy fall breakfast that you prepared ahead of time (go you!!)! We love easy, laid-back mornings around here just as much as we love tasty recipes. Check out some of our favorite cozy breakfast recipes that are perfect for the fall below!