Soon I will say goodbye to sugar again.  It’s been nice knowing you, chocolate, but you’re going to have to go away for awhile again.  I SO miss how great I felt on Whole30!!  I thought about doing it again starting August 1, but because I have a marathon coming up I figure – I may need the grains… that’s my excuse for now anyways!  Have no fear, I WILL do Whole30 again…

All of that aside, sugar is still my friend for now, and I am trying to get rid of all of the chocolate chips in my house before next week!  I also had some overly ripe bananas, so I decided to put them all to use for my co-writers today and make these little yummies.

I found the original recipe on Bionic Bites, and tweaked it a bit to my liking.  Honestly, I don’t think it even needs sugar AT ALL especially with the chocolate chips.  Maybe if you leave them out, you would want to add a sprinkle, but it’s not necessary.  These make a great snack or breakfast cookie!  Enjoy!!

Ingredients

• 2 large over-ripe bananas
• 1 cup quick oats
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 3/4-1 tsp coconut sugar (optional)
• 1/2 TBS coconut oil
• pinch of salt
• 1/4 cup of chopped almonds
• 1/4 cup of cranberries
• coconut oil spray or butter to grease the cookie sheet

Preparation

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

2. Put bananas with oats, cinnamon, sugar, salt, baking soda, and oil in a food processor and process.

3. Mix in almonds, cranberries and chocolate chips.

4. Drop a tablespoon of banana-oatmeal mixture on a greased cookie sheet.

5. Bake 25-30 minutes until soft.

 

6. Cool “cookies” and enjoy. The “cookies” will harden more as they cool.