Can vegan cookies ever taste good?
Why yes, yes they can.
“But… vegan, really?! No eggs, no butter??” you may ask incredulously. “How? Why?”
Stop stuttering and just bake a batch of these cookies. Because I did, and shared them with my animal product-loving friends and they all actually really liked it.
It’s a very basic recipe: basically a flourless peanut butter cookie (I make a lot of these types of cookies), with mashed bananas as a filler, and oatmeal to make it healthy (yes, I believe if it has oatmeal then it is healthy), and dark chocolate chips to make it… sublime.
they're not the prettiest cookies I've made, but they're moist and chewy with just the right amount of sweetness
these are made with such wholesome ingredients, they might even pass for a healthy breakfast, I mean cookie
Oatmeal Banana Peanut Butter Cookies
2 cups old-fashioned oats
1 cup peanut butter (I used Justin’s chocolate peanut butter)
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 small bananas, mashed
1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
1/2 tablespoon baking powder
1 cup bittersweet chocolate mini chunks
Preheat the oven to 350. Combine all the ingredients in a big mixing bowl. (The dough will be mushy but don’t worry – they will bake into brownie-like cookies.) Make golf ball sized rounds and place evenly on a cookie sheet Bake for 15 minutes. Let the cookies cool completely and enjoy!
Oatmeal Banana Peanut Butter Cookies
These cookies are moist and a little crumbly, with an almost brownie-like texture. The peanut butter and banana flavors are not overpowering, and compliments the chewy oatmeal very nicely. They also get plus points from me because they are so simple to make! You won’t miss the eggs or the flour or the butter because they’re still very chocolate-y.
Do you have a flourless cookie recipe you want to share with me? Let me know if you bake these!
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Vegan baked goods get a bad rep but honestly, I’ve never made ones that didn’t turn out wonderfully! With all that peanut butter, how could these be bad? Seriously.
I would totally eat these for breakfast!
I have a flour-less peanut butter cookie recipe on my blog – http://funandfearlessinbeantown.blogspot.com/2011/02/maple-pumpkin-peanut-butter-cookies.html
You’re right…we’re totally on the same wavelength recently!
These look easy and delish! I agree with Meghan – they seem perfect for breakfast!
mmmm.. i love peanut butter in cookies!
There’s many vegan desserts that I definitely love more than their dairy alternatives … these look delicious!
mmm yes vegan cookies can be great! my roommate and i made some similar to these!
Yes!! I was vegan for a year in high school and I did plenty of vegan baking. Right now, I overall prefer using dairy and eggs in my baking, but there are vegan baked goods can definitely be wonderful. This is also the type that I prefer, using all real foods and not gobs of vegan margarine and similar substances.
Looks delicious! And simple which is always my favorite part of a recipe.
I’m making these cookies as soon as I get a chance!
Wow. I feel like I wouldn’t expect those ingredients to hold together, but somehow it magically works. They sound delicious!
they sound awesome!
PS I never knew you were such a book worm!!! thanks for all the great book advice.
I saw you tweet this earlier and was so curious! These look delicious.
My.mouth.is.watering….I love pb, banana, oatmeal, and chocolate all together. I don’t think anything could be better!
Those definitely sound like fair game for breakfast.
I had no idea there was such a thing as chocolate peanut butter! These cookies sound really good. I love trying new things!
Oh yes, there is such a (glorious) thing as chocolate peanut butter. And chocolate almond butter. And chocolate coconut butter. And chocolate hazelnut butter. Lots of good things out there
Yummmmmy!! Love this recipe!!
New to your blog! Happy I found you
Mary
http://delightfulbitefuls.blogspot.com/
Love peanut butter cookies! The addition of oats, banana and chocolate chips sounds perfect!
Hi Mary, thanks for dropping by! If you make these cookies, let me know! They are pretty awesome
this sounds so yummy:) thank you for sharing this …need to try this out soon.
The 1 cup pb, 1 cup sugar, 1 egg flourless recipe is my go-to
I’m all for vegan baking; in fact I think my most delicious recipes are vegan! Also, anything with nut butter and chocolate. Has. My. Heart.
I made Vegan Chocolate PB Oatmeal cookies just like this last night! They were SO good, easy, and I had all the ingredients on hand. They were very similar to yours but also had chocolate protein powder, cocoa powder and no sugar because I didn’t have any. Next time I need to add in some chocolate chunks!
Ashleigh – definitely add chocolate chunks! Good call on adding protein powder, I will experiment with that next time.
Awesome ingredient list in these. When I do vegan cookies I usually cop-out by using margarine instead of butter.
Just stumbled upon these while somewhat desperately searching the web for a recipe that was both gluten AND dairy free for a co-worker with intolerances to both. Thank you for posting – the cookies are in the oven now! (and will be on my blog shortly if you’re interested in seeing how they turned out with a minor adaptation)
Hi Beth, thanks for much for the comment – I’m glad you found my blog! I hope you and your co-worker like the cookies!