Every child loves cookies
My lady requested oat cookies recently. She ate oats a few times with milk, I was surprised she liked it because to be completely honest, I didn't like it at all. I was hoping for her to finish the package, lol. I was surprised she requested me to make oat cookies, but soon I found out she saw it in a cartoon, and therefore she was interested. Oh well, there are worse requests, aren't there?
Looking for inspiration
I saw different oat cookie recipes online and none really looked appealing to me as a non-oat lover. Until I bumped on a recipe that included bananas. I love bananas and after the successful banana bread last week, I decided to go for a recipe including bananas. Soon I discovered that there are plenty recipes out there that use coconut oil instead of the traditional flour, butter and eggs as ingredients. At that point, I was interested because I don't want to use that much butter in general and it was about time that I'd refill our coconut oil stash as well. I combined a few recipes, and decide to go for a banana oat cookie with chocolate chips in it as I still had these in the kitchen cabinet and thought it would be a good idea to use them after such a long time.
These oat cookies are done in a heartbeat
Not only do you need a few ingredients only, mixing them up only takes a minute or 2 max and they were done within the 30 minutes total from prepping to getting them out of the oven.
The ingredients:
- 1 ripe banana
- 100 grams of (rolled) oats
- 2 tablespoons of honey
- 1 tablespoon of soft/melted coconut oil
- 50 grams of chocolate chips
- pinch of salt
That's it!
The process
This is probably the easiest process for homemade cookies I've discovered so far. Although I'm not a real fan of kneading stuff with my hands if it contains honey, I really loved how fast these cookies were prepped and placed in the oven.
- Preheat the oven at 170 degrees
- Mash the banana in a bowl
- Add the oats, honey and coconut oil with the pinch of salt
- Stir them until fully mixed
- Leave the mix on the counter for 10 minutes so the oaks can soak up the liquids
- Add the chocolate chips to the mix, keeping a few on the side to sprinkle on top of them after they come out of the oven.
- Now take out 1 tablespoon of the mix at a time, roll this up into a ball and then flatten it until it's a disk. Repeat until the mix is all processed.
- Place them in the preheated over for about 15 minutes and sprinkle a few extra chocolate chips on top of them while they're still hot.
- Let them cool off before tasting them.. (It's worth the wait)
The end result
Not too bad for a first time, right? I think I can improve my rolling skills and make them look similar rather than having all sorts of sizes like I have now. I like the banana/chocolate combo with the oats, and I will most-likely try out a few more oat cookie recipes soon because it's easy, without the flour messy mixing part and healthier than those butter filled cookies (which I love love love, don't get me wrong). My boyfriend is often hunting for something to fulfill his cravings in the kitchen cabinet and I think I can make him fall in love with oat cookies.
Do you have a favorite recipe for oat cookies? If so, feel free to share it in a comment. Tips are always very welcome!