Easy Chocolate Chip & Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies

I felt like baking lately because I missed it so much! Living a year without oven was sad but there were times I attempted to bake cakes with a friend who had one but our cakes didn’t turn out great in texture, even for basic ones, like French yoghurt cakes 🙁 In the end, we concluded it was because the Chinese flour quality wasn’t good so that’s why it happened. Unless you’d be willing to buy imported flour, your baking experiences are pretty much doomed there.

Meanwhile, an American friend introduced me to oatmeal cookies and I totally loved them! She just stirred all the ingredients in a pan before shaping the cookies and let them cool down on a sheet of aluminium foil/wax paper. I didn’t know we could use oatmeal in that way so I was pretty amazed and asked her for the recipe!

I’ve been trying to eat healthier since I came back, I decided to look for a healthier recipe with no sugar and no butter. That’s when I stumbled upon Blogilates’ Easiest Healthiest Cookie Recipe in the World which is the base recipe of what I made in today’s post. I tweaked it a bit 🙂 My variant includes chocolate chips and peanut butter !

Ingredients (for 10 small cookies ?) :

• 1 banana (it’s even better if it’s ripe)
• 1 cup of oatmeal
• 1 handful of chocolate chips
• 1 spoon of peanut butter

 

1. Start by mashing the banana in a bowl with a spoon, then add the oatmeal and stir.
2. Put the peanut butter, stir until it’s spead evenly in the mixture.
3. Add the chocolate chips and stir again.
4. Shape your cookies with your hands and lay them on a sheet of wax paper.
5. Bake them in the oven at 150°C or 350°F for 15-20 minutes.
6. Once you take your cookies out of the oven, let them cool down.

I ran out of wax paper so instead I used a silicone baking sheet for macarons, it helped me with the size of the cookies so it wasn’t that bad! I made 20 cookies so I just doubled the proportions of ingredients 🙂 Here are pictures of the cookies before putting them in the oven and after taking them out (I have no photography skills, sorry) ↓↓↓

You don’t need to add any sugar for those cookies since banana is naturally sweet and it makes everything stick together 🙂 Also you can add other things, such as nuts or dried fruits! Everything is up to you ♥