Healthy cookies have become a bit of an obsession for me. I need them for my kids to snack on. You moms know what I mean. It has nothing to do with my own snacking tendencies (obviously). 😉
I’ve also been working on doing more egg-free cooking to accommodate my husband’s allergies. It can be tough sometimes, but lucky for us, bananas are an excellent substitute for eggs in some recipes – particularly cookies.
We also just recently loaded up on coconut flour, so guess what? Yup, these puppies are grain-free too! Although if you want to, feel free to substitute another type of flour. However, you’ll probably find that you’ll need to use a larger quantity of a grain-based flour as coconut flour really soaks up the moisture, and you tend to not need as much.
It’s crazy how you can take healthy ingredients, mix them together and make them into something just as delicious, but not completely full of sugar and grain as their traditional counter parts. It makes you wonder why in the world we ever started down the baking path of bleached white flour.
Then again, I guess white flour has it’s place (I’m thinking paper mâché glue, and crusty, chewy artisan bread a genius baker brings to the farmer’s market).
But right here and now, I’m really happy to have a healthy cookie recipe to share with you. Your kids will love you for making these! And by my calculations, the entire batch contains only 389 calories, so you won’t fill terribly full and bloated after eating the, Score!
Healthy Peanut Butter Banana Cookies
Healthy Peanut Butter Banana Cookies
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 18 cookies
Ingredients
- 1 banana
- 2 Tablespoons peanut butter
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/3 cup coconut flour
- 1/2 teaspoon truvia (optional if you feel like your dough needs to be sweetened)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350º
- Mash banana, and thoroughly mix in peanut butter and vanilla.
- Add coconut flour and Truvia.
- Mix well.
- Separate into walnut-sized balls.
- Place on a cookie sheet and flatten with a fork in the crisscross peanut butter cookie shape.
- Place in the oven and bake for 10-15 minutes until cookies begin to brown slightly.
- Remove from oven and let cool.
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These look super yummy! I love that there are only 5 ingredients.
Cheers,
Chrystal
Yay! Love seeing a vegan cookie! So good!
I LOVE peanut butter cookies. I love that they are healthier too!
These cookies look so good, love how few ingredients there are!
Make a double batch. Such a small amount.
Double batch 17 cookies, used a disher, about the size of a walnut, to measure them out. Cookies are child-sized.
How many cookies does it make?
About a dozen.
wow these sound awesome. Thanks so much for this recipe. can’t wait to make these.
Simon
Can you use natural peanut butter?
Yep! 🙂
Where should I store leftovers?
Preferably in the refrigerator, so they’ll last longer.
Thanks for the recipe, I had no idea what to make with my coconut flour.
They’re pretty good and guilt-free! 🙂
Plus they’re really easy to make!
Happy New Year!
Love bananas and peanut butter so these sound just so tasty! I was wondering do you know the nutrition facts on this recipe? I am having to watch the carbs so I know the Truvia (Stevia) helps but I’m not sure about the coconut flour. Thanks so much and I plan to make these to satisfy my sweet tooth!
Hi Clara, here’s the nutrition facts for the entire batch (not per serving!):
Calories 463
Total Fat 22.3g
Saturated Fat 8.7g
Cholesterol 0g
Sodium 84.1mg
Total Carbohydrate 57.6g
Dietary Fiber 18.4g
Sugars 20.4g
Protein 14.4g
How ripe should the banana be?
Ripe enough to mash easily. 🙂
I am looking to make these today but don’t have coconut flour! Can I use regular flour?
Possibly, but you may need to adjust the amount since coconut flour thickens the dough a LOT.
Thank you for the healthy cookie recipe BUT is the negativity necessary?
Am I missing something, Nana? Seemed like a pretty darn peppy post to me.
I would double or triple the ingredients if I were to make these again. It was a waste of time and dishes to make 5 cookies
Thanks for the recipe. I didn’t even know there was such a thing as coconut flour. Thanks for the education. Looking forward to making these gluten free cookies.
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I just made them (eating one as I write) and they are absolutely delicious! Didn’t use any sweetener because I thought the ripe banana is sweet enough on its own, and I wasn’t wrong. You can really taste the PB although some people might find it not sweet enough.
Anyway, great recipe, love there is so few ingredients, thank you for this!
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Glad you liked it!
First of all, I tripled the recipe and got 28 cookies. Secondly, the dough is way too sticky to actually make nice cross cross marks and they do not spread out when baking like normal cookies. I never read the paragraphs before the recipe, perhaps I should have, but I’m not a fan of this recipe as I used it to make cookies for my sons Christmas party. However, I can see how these are a great healthy/vegan alternative and I can appreciate that.
Made this for my 1 1/2 year old. Great healthy cookie for kids and anyone. He loved it and I did too! Super easy and fast, my kind of recipe. Thank you!
So glad it was a hit in your house!
Hi! Thank you for sharing this recipe. I like the cookies, but they are a bit dry. Nothing a glass of almond milk couldn’t fix, though 🙂
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I’m so sorry, I accidentally put three stars on my post and I can’t edit it. Yikes.
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I’m sorry but there is no way one banana and 1/3 cup of flour and 2 Tbsp peanut butter can make 18 cookies! Especially if you make walnut size scoops! They taste good but didn’t get 18 and I doubled it!
Is there any nutritional information for these?
Can you use almond butter?
Yes.
I put criss cross’s in halfway through the cooking process. Doubled the recipe, add dark chocolate chips. A very great recipe, soft cookies. I wish I knew about this growing up would have saved a lot of calories and guilt.
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It’s strange but I can’t see the recipe?
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Hi Kletha, I just put a “jump to recipe” button at the top of the post, so it should be easier to find. 🙂
Tasted great! I added a tablespoon of Nutella
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could i possibly use almond flour instead of coconut flour?
Possbily, but you will probably need to adjust the amount.
Could I use almond flour for this recipe?