My peanut butter and banana protein breakfast cookies

togmo

I have been making variations of this basic recipe for a while now and without any eggs they tend to last for quite a while in the fridge. I just shared this recipe on another thread and figured I would throw it out there on its own and see if anyone cared. I make a batch on the weekend and once cooled I put two in a ziplock bag and have them during the weekdays for breakfast. I generally eat them on the train on the way to work or at work when I first get there. They are pretty healthy but still very tasty and they fit my macros really well. They also freeze pretty well so you can put some bags in the freezer and then have some variation if you decide to mix it up and add some coconut and white chocolate to one batch for example.

As far as variations goes there are lots of them but the basic recipe remains the same.

Ingredients:

150g peanut butter - crunchy
2 large bananas (was about 250g flesh)
100g vanilla protein powder - I used musclepharm last time but anything works. If you use natural add a little vanilla extract to the bananas and if you want a choc biccie you can use chocolate and add some cocoa powder too - this too is a yummy alternative.
125g applesauce (1/2 jar)
2 cups quick oats (175g)
1/2 cup almond meal (45g)
1/2 cup wholemeal self raising flour (60g)
1 tspn baking powder (5g)
50g dark chocolate (22 buttons) - I put one big choc button in the middle of each cookie.One variation is to put small choc chips through the mix but it will add more unhealthy calories to your cookies but they do taste great!

Basic Method:

1. Combine the bananas and peanut butter in a mixing bowl on high til a bit creamy then add the apple sauce and protein powder and mix through.
2. Seperately combine all the dry ingredients and then add to the wet ingredients - i do this by hand but I don't think it matters.
3. Shape your cookies, put a choc button on top (this is a necessary yummy bit) and bake at about 160-180C for about 12-15 minutes - basically until they are a bit golden on top. Watch them as they do tend to burn easily.

I made about 22 cookies out of this last time and they were a pretty good size, still small enough to maximise the choc button's yumminess! Also don't worry if you don't have everything, you only really need the peanut butter, banana, oats and apple sauce. The protein powder helps my macros and any flour would do I would think. Experimenting is fun and part of the process!


Macros from one basic biccie (from the above recipe) without anything else added but including the one choc button (~2g) on top of each biccie:
Per Serving: 143kcal - 7g protein - 13g carbs - 6g fat - 2.5g fibre - 116g sodium