After spending a few weeks on the west coast and a few days in New Orleans, it’s time to pay the piper and address the issue of my jeans and how they don’t quite fit anymore! I ate (and drank) my way from Oregon to California and pretty much all the way around New Orleans and I have to face the fact that it’s time to cut back for a little while.
So, I decided to make some cookies! Not just any cookies mind you, healthy cookies from the Skinny Girl website – cookies with banana and oats in them. I’m not going to claim that these are the best tasting cookies I’ve ever made, but they are probably the healthiest and I really need a little help in that department right now. Here’s how to make them:
Ingredient list
1 1/2 cups oat flour
3/4 cup rolled oats
1/2 t baking powder
1/2 t baking soda
1/2 t salt
1/2 cup raw sugar
1/3 cup chocolate chips
1 t canola oil
1/3 cup soy milk (I used 2% cow’s milk)
1/2 cup banana puree
1 t vanilla extract
First I made my own oat flour since I didn’t have any lying around. I just pulsed 1 1/2 cups of oats in the blender until they were more flour-like. It doesn’t matter if they are perfectly ground since you are also adding oats later in the recipe.
Combine the oat flour with the baking powder, baking soda & salt in a large bowl, add the oats, sugar,
and chocolate chips
in another bowl, mix the milk, canola oil, banana puree and vanilla
add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients, mix thoroughly. Drop with an ice cream scoop onto a parchment lined cookie sheet and bake for about 12 minutes.
What I liked about these was that even though they are lower in fat and calories, they don’t have any strange artificial ingredients in them. Again, they weren’t the best cookies I’ve ever made, but they were satisfying and helped tame my sweet tooth while I’m trying to be good for a few weeks. Given the fact that one of the new kitchen items I had shipped from New Orleans was an ice cream maker (what? You haven’t heard of Cajun ice cream?), don’t expect this healthy lifestyle of mine to last forever! Just until my jeans fit again…
sigh..
xxoo,
RMW
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YUM!YUM!..I have never seen anyone make their own oat flour,this is awesome,love this recipe,anytime there is chocolate I’m quick to write down the recipe,hope you don’t mind me borrow this one, I love these cookies.No eggs,huh!Not that I don’t like eggs,I do!But sometimes I don’t have ’em,and I am always cravin’ something sweet!
Great “o” word,love oatmeal anyway!
~Jo
LazyonLoblolly
I LOVE oatmeal-chocolate chip cookies but I have never made them with bananas. Your recipe sounds very good!
They look yummy!
Oatmeal great O word and the cookies go with it.
Yum! I love just about any cookie out there :o) I had to smile that cookies are you share that would help in “getting back healthy”… I would love some of that sweet “healthiness” right about now.
I am curious too about your Cajun icecream!
Welcome back from your travels!
Blessings & Aloha!
Would you believe they don’t have chocolate chips in Romania? Are they missing out or what? I wonder if I could crush a dark-chocolate candy bar or something.
Stacia:
I’ll bet that chopping up and adding a semi sweet chocolate bar would be just wonderful!
Let me know if you try it!
xxoo,
RMW
What a great O post. Kind of scary when even our cookies are becoming healthy!
Cookies? Ice cream? I need to diet after reading your post. (They do look yummy…)
What did you think about the soy milk?
Healthy cookies? Okay…….I love oatmeal cookies and I’ll give these a try.
She’s just that into you … and your cookies. Your photography brought me right into your kitchen, where I learned (duh) how to make oat flour and healthy cookies. Sounds rather oxymoranish … I drink almond milk and think it would be a delicious switch up!
What could be better than oatmeal chocolate cookies? You are killing me right now with drooling, and it’s only 8:30 AM here 🙂 Thanks for sharing the recipe!
All right. I can do those and still feel I am doing the body good. Win/win.
Healthy or not, these look pretty good to me!
=)
Three of my favorite things in one cookie: chocolate, oatmeal and bananas – pure bliss and deliciousness. I will have to try this recipe as I never used bananas in choco chips. xo,
Good for you! I didn’t even realize there were healthy cookies.
That looks very delicious! Yummy 🙂
They look delicious!!! And your trip sounds like it was fabulous!!!
xo
Cindy
Theses are just what I need to make. . . need to drop a few pounds but have a horrible sweet tooth! Hopefully the chocolate in them will help me to not feel deprived.Thanks for sharing.
Darn! Don’t you just hate when you have to pay the piper for eating your way across a few states? It just seems wrong!
This does sound healthier. I’ve been watching her TV show and she comes up with some pretty creative solutions for calorie counting.
Thanks for an outstanding link this week.
I bet those jeans are gonna slide on in no time at all!
A+
I’m a complete chocoholic and anything with chocolate in it will have my attention.
These look scrumptious…got my mouth watering!
I’m off in a few weeks to visit my in-laws to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. Let me tell you, moms (that’s what I call mother-in-law) can cook/bake and I love to eat (lol). I will probably be feeling like you when I return.
Thanks for sharing & for visiting.
Well, it’s always nice to have something (almost) guilt-free to fall back on when that sweet tooth just has to be satisfied. Good luck with those jeans!
These looks wonderful. Thanks for sharing the recipe. It’ll be a great way to get my kids to eat oats.
I always put on a few pounds on vacation too. Look like a great, healthy alternative to high fat cookies.
Haha I definitely need a batch of these! I’m having the same problem with my jeans 😛
Fresh from the oven, still warm, still a little soft…..loved this post!
Hmm, interesting sounding recipe. I’ve never tried oatmeal chocolate chip cookies but if they taste anything like oatmeal cookies, I’d be willing to give it a go 🙂
glad you had nice travels. And good to see they left some sugar in the recipe to sweeten up the cookies! Sounds like an interesting website (skinny girl) {:-Deb
I’m drooling over these cookies.