Vegan Chocolate-Chip Banana Bread Oat Cookies
The only thing better than banana bread? These banana bread cookies which happen to be vegan and toddler-friendly too, baked with natural wholesome ingredients including oat flour and your favourite nut butter!
Ingredients
- 1 large ripe banana
- ¾ cup oat flour (made by blitzing rolled oats into a fine flour)
- 2 tbsp dark cane sugar/ jaggery
- 2 tbsp almond butter
- ½ tsp baking powder
- pinch of salt
- ⅓ cup chocolate chips
- ¼ cup pecans
- 1-2 tsp almond milk (as required)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C and line a baking tray with greased parchment paper or a silicone mat.
- Mash the banana with a fork. Whisk in the almond butter and sugar.
- Then stir in the baking powder, oat flour and a pinch of salt. Add 1-2 tsp of almond mylk if required to bring the cookie dough together. Alternatively, if the batter gets too wet, just add a sprinkle more of oat flour.
- Now stir in the chocolate chips and pecans.
- Use a cookie scoop to form cookie dough balls on the baking tray, flattening them gently with your palms to form the shape you want. The dough will be sticky, this is normal , don’t worry!
- Bake for 8-10 minutes until the edges are firm but the centre is still warm.
- Allow the cookies to cool down completely before having your first one!