Oatmeal banana cookies.

+/- 40 OR 20 kcal per cookie.

Recipe makes twelve 40 kcal cookies or twenty-four 20 kcal cookies.

 

Recipe:

85 gram (1 cup) oatmeal: 300 kcal.

2 medium-sized bananas: 200 kcal.

I added a splash of vanilla and a tsp cocoa powder, but you can also add sweetener,

cinnamon, crushed nuts,...

 

Microwave for +/- 3-4 minutes or until they're hardened enough to hold without

them falling apart in your hands.

 

So for the entire recipe it's 500 kcal.

I turned it into 12 large mini muffin-ish cookies at +/- 42 kcal per cookie

(some are more, some less, because they're not all the same size).

 

Halfweay through making these I realised I didn't

have any microwave-proof plates with me.

So I could either make them one at a time in my microwavable bowl

or I could use my mini-muffin tin.

So I used the muffin tin.

But then the bottom stayed soft while the top hardened because the bottom of the

cookie was less exposed to the heat.

So now I have half-hard, half-soft cookies.

Also, I had to put them in the microwave for four minutes before they finally

hardened enough that I wouldn't have to spoon them up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They're a bit chewy (and I don't think it was because of the mistakes I made,

I think it's just the fact that you're mixing banana with oatmeal, both of which get

slightly more chewy when they're baked).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(sorry for the weird yellow-ish shade, my camera is in a bad mood today for some reason)

 

As you can see I didn't get all the banana perfectly mashed,

this is because I had to add another banana AFTER I had already added the oats,

which made mashing the second banana a challenge.

I actually liked the small chunks of banana in the cookies, it made them slightly creamy,

so that's good (for me).

 

 

So, my opinion on this:

 

Difficulty:

★ ★

Well, so long as you don't screw up and improvise every step of the way like I did,

these are actually pretty easy to make.

Mash the banana, add the oats, mix it up with whatever else you want to add (cocoa powder, cinnamon, vanilla, chunks of nuts,...) and nuke 'em.

 

Taste:

★ ★ ★

These were really good.

They taste better when they're warm, but then again, so does every other cookie I've ever had. There is just something about warm, fresh out of the oven (or in this case microwave) cookies.

I didn't really taste the cocoa powder and vanilla (even though I used a 'normal' amount)

because the banana and oats both have pretty strong flavors.

So if you want your additions to add to the flavor, try using maybe three or four tsp cocoa powder/cinnamon/sweetener/whatever instead of one like I did.

 

Portion size:

★ ★ ★

For cookies this tasty, 40 kcal isn't too bad.

I can't guiltlessly eat the entire recipe since it is a total of five hundred calories (or 250 for half).

But for just having one or two, these are not too bad.

Compared to regular oatmeal cookies (between 100 and 200 kcal a piece)

the kcal count is pretty great.

And because it's banana and oatmeal, it's pretty filling, so there's that.

Have four or five of these and you got yourself a proper breakfast for only 200 kcal which will easily keep your hunger down until lunch-time at least.