Protein Breakfast Cookies
Prep:
5 min
Cook:
8 min
Total:
13 min
Ingredients for 8 cookies
UPDATED – 04/18/2024
- Dry Ingredients
- 2 cups uncooked old fashion oats (NOT instant)
- 2 scoops (50g of protein) vanilla whey isolate protein
- I recommend a flavored protein because it is usually lightly sweetened so you do not need to add copious amounts of sugar/honey to the recipe
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- Substitute: oat flour; sorghum flour; fine almond flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- Wet Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- 4oz (123g) unsweetened applesauce
- 1/2 cup almond butter
- Sub: peanut butter; cashew butter
- 2 tablespoons raw honey
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract **
- 1/4 dried cherries (or your choice of naturally dried fruit)**
- 3 tablespoons dark chocolate (sweetened by Stevia not sugar – in order to keep sugar calories lower)**
** – optional ingredients. You can enjoy the recipe without them but they add a ton of flavor.
Steps
Step 1
Set oven to 350F.
Step 2
Mix dry ingredients together in a bowl.
Step 3
Mix wet ingredients together in a separate bowl.
Step 4
Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix thoroughly. Toss in any dried fruit or dark chocolate and mix together, it should be a sticky batter that sticks together.
Step 5
Evenly divide the batter using a spoon or ice cream scoop onto a baking sheet lined with parchment or silpat, then gently mash down on each circle since the cookies will not rise too much in the oven.
Step 6
Bake for no more than 8 minutes, then allow them to cool on a towel or a cooling rack. They will harden and become chewy as they cool.