Healthy Cookies

Makes around 3 dozen bite-sized cookies

 

INGREDIENTS:

• 3 large, Ripe bananas, well mashed

• 1 tsp Vanilla extract

• ¼ cup Coconut oil, barely warm - so it isn't solid (or alternately, olive oil)

• 2 cups Rolled oats - can use gluten free oats

• ⅔ cup Almond meal

• ⅓ cup Coconut, finely shredded & unsweetened

• ½ tsp Cinnamon

• ½ tsp Fine grain sea salt

• 1 tsp Baking powder

• 170g Dark chocolate bar chopped

 

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Preheat oven to 160°C.

2. In a large bowl combine the bananas, vanilla extract and coconut oil. Set aside. 

3. In another bowl, whisk together the oats, almond meal, shredded coconut, cinnamon, salt and baking powder. 

4. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and stir until combined. Fold in the chocolate chunks. 

5. Drop dollops of the dough, each about 2 teaspoons in size, an inch apart, onto a baking sheet.

6. Bake for 12 - 14 minutes.