Bready or Not: Healthy Breakfast Cookies [Redux]

Cookies for breakfast. Healthy cookies. No refined sugars. Vegan. Also gluten-free, if you use GF oats.

Even better: they taste delicious.

This is one of my favorite breakfast recipes, one I’ve made at least once a month for the past five years. In fact, I posted it on Bready or Not back in 2014. Delicious as the cookies are, I couldn’t finagle the lighting then to do the recipe justice. Now, thanks to my Shotbox, I can.

I customize these cookies based on my mood and what I have on hand. I’ve used macadamia nut butter, cashew butter, and almond butter–and combinations thereof. I’ve used apple butter, pumpkin butter, and date butter–and in a pinch, I’ve used applesauce and doubled the cinnamon.

For the dried fruit, I often use a mix of golden raisins and dried cranberries, but I’ve thrown in dried blueberries, too. If you don’t have pepitas, use sunflower kernels or other chopped nuts.

I usually whip up a batch and freeze 2/3 of it right away. The cookies keep perfectly fine in a room temperature sealed container for over a week. Two or three cookies make for a great breakfast prior to exercising!

Did I mention they are also delicious?

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Bready or Not: Healthy Breakfast Cookies [Redux]

These delicious breakfast cookies can be customized in a myriad of ways. Use any kind or combination of nut butters, dried fruit, or seeds and nuts. All kinds of fruit butters work here, or use a single-serving cup of applesauce and double the cinnamon. The cookies keep perfectly fine in a room temperature sealed container for over a week, and can also be frozen for over a month. Makes about 28 tablespoon-sized cookies.

Course: Breakfast

Keyword: cookies, gluten free

Author: Beth Cato

Ingredients

• 2 cups quick oats not whole or old-fashioned oats
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 cup nut butter
• 1/4 cup pure maple syrup or honey
• 3/4 cup fruit butter apple butter, date butter, etc
• 1 cup dried fruit raisins, cranberries, etc
• 1/2 cup pepitas shelled pumpkin seeds or other seeds or nuts
• 1/4 cup ground flaxseed or wheat germ

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 325-degrees. Prepare cookie sheets with parchment or silicone baking mats, or use seasoned stoneware.
• Combine all of the ingredients into a large bowl.
• Using a tablespoon or tablespoon scoop, drop dollops of dough onto cookie sheet. Note that it won't spread. Use fingers to gently tamp down top and press in stray oats on the sides; it will be a little sticky.
• Bake for 12 to 15 minutes or until the cookies are just set. Cool for several minutes before transitioning them to a rack to finish cooling.
• OM NOM NOM!