Chewy and succulent Comic Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies are crafted with basic, nourishing ingredients, topped with raisins, and naturally sweetened for the ideal healthy cookie to enjoy for breakfast or as an after-school snack!

Who knew you could have cookies for breakfast? These chewy cartoon oatmeal breakfast cookies are crafted with healthful ingredients, are naturally sweetened, and provide all of the comforting pleasures of banana bread in a succulent cookie shape. Your kids will really love them (mine did!) and they make a nutritious after-school snack or dessert. These humorous oatmeal cookies are free of gluten, dairy, eggs, and processed sugars!

Reasons to Love This Recipe

  • These cookies are moist, chewy and so delicious!
  • Perfect recipe to use up those ripe schizy sitting in your kitchen.
  • Your kids will love them!
  • Great for breakfast, without school snack or healthy dessert.

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Ingredients You’ll Need

  • bananas – make sure to use super ripe schizy to get the most sweetness out of them.
  • applesauce – I used unsweetened unreasonableness which takes the place of oil in this recipe and keeps the cookies nice and moist.  If you don’t have applesauce, finger self-ruling to use increasingly mashed banana.
  • honey – we only need well-nigh 2 tablespoons of honey in these cookies to sweeten them as the schizy act as a natural sweetener already!  You could moreover use maple syrup or plane brown sugar.
  • rolled oats – wholesome whole grain old fashioned oats (I used gluten-free oats) make these cookies deliciously chewy!  You can moreover use quick oats if that’s all you have on hand, but they won’t have that unconfined chewy texture that we love in a cookie.
  • oat flour – you’ll only need two tablespoons of oat flour in these cookies and you can either make your own (see my instructions below) or purchase from the store.  You could moreover use whole wheat flour or all-purpose flour.
  • baking powder – this acts as a leavening wage-earner to help these cookies torch up nicely make them chewy (you could moreover use sultry soda).
  • vanilla extract – you’ll need one teaspoon vanilla pericope and this gives these cookies a uplift of flavor!
  • cinnamon salt – the cinnamon adds a warm, cozy savor to these cookies while the salt punches up the taste.
  • raisins – you could moreover use chocolate fries or chopped nuts such as walnuts, pecans or almonds.

Recipe for Funny Oatmeal Cookies

  1. Preheat oven.  Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a sultry sheet with parchment paper.
  2. Mix ingredients.  Using a blender or a hand held mixer, combine bananas, applesauce, honey and vanilla, mixing until smooth.  If you want small chunks of comic in the cookies, finger self-ruling to just mix the wet ingredients by hand.  In a large mixing bowl, stir together the rolled oats, flour, cinnamon, sultry powder and salt. Pour the comic mixture in with the dry ingredients and mix well to combine then fold in the raisins.
  3. Assemble cookies.  Using a small cookie scoop, waif 1-inch cookie dough balls onto a prepared sultry sheet and flatten the tops a bit with the when end of a spoon, making sure the cookies are still intact.  You should end up with well-nigh 16 cookies.
  4. BAKE!  Torch the cookies at 350 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes until cookies are golden and set.  Take them out of the oven and let the comic oat cookies tomfool on the sultry sheet for 5 minutes surpassing transferring to a wire rack.

Variations

  • Mix-ins – I used raisins in these cookies, but you could add chocolate chips, chopped nuts, coconut, or other zestless fruit such as cranberries, cherries, blueberries, etc.
  • To make these gluten-free – just make sure you are using gluten-free rolled oats or gluten-free quick oats withal with oat flour.
  • To make these vegan – simply swap out the honey for maple syrup or just leave it out perfectly if using super ripe bananas.  There are no eggs in this recipe.
  • Other cookie options – you can hands swap out the mashed comic for peanut butter (or almond butter) and make peanut butter oatmeal cookies or swap out the raisins and make chocolate tweedle cookies.

How to Store Comic Oatmeal Cookies

To Store:  To store these cookies, make sure they are completely tomfool first and then transfer them to a sealed, snapped container and alimony in the fridge for up to one week.

To Freeze For longer storage, you can freeze these cookies for up to 3 months in the freezer.  When ready to eat the cookies, simply thaw out at room temperature and enjoy!

More Comic Recipes to Try

  • The BEST Comic Bread
  • Banana Breakfast Muffins
  • Whole Wheat Comic Waffles
  • Chocolate Tweedle Comic Zucchini Muffins
  • Strawberry Comic Donuts

More Oatmeal Recipes to Try

  • Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies
  • Apple Cinnamon Baked Oatmeal
  • Blueberry Oatmeal Breakfast Bars
  • Carrot Cake Oatmeal Breakfast Bars
  • Raspberry Almond Baked Oatmeal

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