These banana and oat cookies don’t have any dairy, eggs, oil, gluten or sugar, yet they are really yummy. We thought that this recipe wouldn’t work but it does and it’s brilliant! It’s healthy, sweet and perfect for breakfast, parties, as a snack after school or even in your packed lunch!

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You’ll need:

• 2 ripe bananas
• Porridge oats: about 1½ cups
• 1 Tbsp of cocoa powder

To make the cookies:

1. Peel the bananas and put them in a blender together with the cocoa powder and blend until you get a purée. Add a cupful of oats and mix with a wooden spoon. Add enough oats to create a well combined, sticky mixture.
2. Ask an adult to put the oven on and set it to 180°C.
3. Line a baking tray with baking paper.
4. Put a Tbspful of the mixture into your hands and form a ball and flatten them between your palms of your hands.
5. Place them on the baking tray and ask an adult to put it in the oven.
6. Bake for about 15 minutes until they get nice and brown.
7. Ask an adult to take the tray out and to move the cookies onto a wire rack.
8. Let them cool – then enjoy!

Tips

Instead of cocoa you could use cinnamon. You can leave out the cocoa or/and add other stuff to make your cookies more tasty, for example:

• Shredded Coconut
• Nuts or seeds (almonds, pistachios, walnuts, brazil nuts, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds)
• Dried fruits (raisins, apricot, cranberries, cherries and so on)
• Grated apple
• Fresh blueberries, cherries
• Grated skin of an orange or lemon