Simple & Healthy Snack “Cookies” Recipe
I started making these healthy snack cookies for my kids recently, and they are hooked! For some reason if you call it a cookie, it just seems to taste better, have you noticed? Or maybe it just feels like a sweet treat. Either way, you can’t go wrong with these snack cookies because they come together in just a few minutes in one bowl, and they have no added sugar. The whole family is sure to love these tasty cookies!
If you are looking for more healthy snacks (that are also kid friendly!), here are some of my kids favorite recipes:
- Apple muffins
- Greek yogurt muffins with fresh milled flour
- 3 Ingredient fruit snacks
- Homemade graham crackers
- Zbar copycat granola bars
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Reasons to Love This Healthy Snack Cookies Recipe
Besides the fact that they are delicious, here are a few reasons to love this easy recipe:
Fast & Easy – when you need to restock the snacks quickly, these cookies will be your best friend. Mix them up in just a few minutes, and bake them and they will be ready to eat!
No Junk Ingredients – Healthy snacks are nearly impossible to find at grocery stores. If it’s packaged, it probably has preservatives and seed oils. I try to give my kids real food snacks, and these cookies are a great way to do that! They only have 7 wholesome ingredients that you can easily pronounce, and you probably already have on hand.
Sweetened Naturally – These cookies have natural sweetness from bananas, and have no added sugar!
The Perfect Healthy Snack – These cookies are filling from the peanut butter and oats, helping your kids (and you) to refuel and feel good.
Easy to Customize – This is really more of a concept than a recipe. You can customize these cookies with your favorite mix-ins, like dried fruit, flax seeds, coconut flakes, and nuts. Try swapping out the peanut butter for your favorite nut butter to change up the flavor.
Ingredients in Healthy Snack Cookies
You will only need a few healthy ingredients for this recipe that you probably already have in your kitchen!
Old-Fashioned Oats (quick oats will work also) – I always try and buy organic oatmeal to avoid glyphosate and any other pesticides.
Ripe Bananas – the riper the bananas, the sweeter the cookies will be.
Natural peanut butter – peanut butter should just have 1-2 ingredients (peanuts and possibly salt). Watch out for seed oils, sugar, and other unnecessary ingredients.
Cinnamon – My favorite cinnamon to use in all of my recipes is organic ceylon cinnamon. I order mine in bulk from Azure standard!
Salt – Unrefined salt is the best, I like to buy redmonds real salt.
Vanilla extract
Dark Chocolate Chips
Other Tools You Will Need
This is a great recipe because you don’t need much to make it. You will need:
- Large mixing bowl
- Large baking sheet or cookie sheet
- parchment paper
How To Make Healthy Snack Cookies
This recipe is so straight forward! Really you just mix everything together and then bake it.
Step 1: Preheat the oven to 350
Step 2: Line a large baking sheet or cookie sheet with parchment paper.
Step 3: Mash the bananas in a large bowl, and then add the rest of the cookie ingredients. Stir everything together to combine really well.
Step 4: Scoop some cookie mixture with a spoon or cookie scoop and gently roll it into a ball with your hands. Place it on the parchment paper and flatten it into a “cookie” shape. These cookies will not expand in the oven, they will come out just like you put them in the oven. You can also use a cookie cutter if you prefer a perfect shape.
Step 5: Bake cookies for 14-17 minutes until they start to turn brown on the edges.
Step 6: Remove the cookies from the oven and move them to a wire cooling rack. These cookies hold their shape best if you allow them to cool completely.
Storing Snack Cookies
My preferred method for storing these cookies is to keep them in the freezer! They are so easy to pull out and can be eaten cold. Another thing that I think makes these cookies the perfect snack – you can stock up but they are still ready to eat at any time. To freeze, flash freeze them on a cookie sheet first to make sure they don’t stick together, then store them in an airtight container or a ziplock bag.
You can also keep them in an airtight container at room temperature for about a week.
I hope you love these healthy snack cookies! They are really perfect any time of the day. If you make this recipe, I would love it if you could leave me a review and 5 stars.
Simple & Healthy Snack “Cookies” Recipe
Equipment
- 1 Large Mixing Bowl
- 1 Baking Sheet
- Parchment Paper
Ingredients
- 2 ripe bananas
- 2 cups old-fashioned oats
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp unrefined salt
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter natural
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup dark chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350, and line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a large mixing bowl, mash the bananas.
- Add the remaining cookie ingredients, and mix everything together really well.
- Scoop some of the cookie mixture using a spoon, and gently roll it into a ball between your palms.
- Add the cookie ball to the parchment paper lined baking sheet, and press it slightly until it form a flat cookie shape.
- Repeat with the remaining cookie "dough" until you have fit as many cookies as you can on the baking sheet. These do not expand as they cook, but give them a little space to cook evenly.
- Bake the cookies for 14-17 minutes, or until they start to turn brown on the edges.
- Remove the cookies from the oven and allow them to cool completely on a wire cooling rack.
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