You would think that these breakfast cookies would be completely devoid of flavor considering there is no flour, white sugar, butter, margarine, shortening, canola oil or chocolate in them. Well, back about four years ago, I put a recipe for breakfast cookies on this blog. While they were yummy, they also had a lot of extra ingredients that I knew I could eliminate, to make them "healthier." Up until a few months ago, I would regularly buy Oreos when I would go to the Kroger. I was putting them in Dominic's lunch, but I also would eat way too many of them. They are very addicting!!! I finally came to the conclusion, that if I didn't buy them, then I wouldn't eat them!! In the past couple of weeks, I have had more than one person tell me that Dominic looks thinner. I personally think it is because he stopped eating all those Oreos! I decided to come up with a "healthier," version of my original breakfast cookies from four years ago! These taste pretty darn good, if I do say so myself!! By the way, Dominic LOVES these cookies!!!!!
Ingredients
1/2 cup + two tablespoons old fashioned oats
1/4 cup light brown sugar, firmly packed
1 cup creamy peanut butter
1 large egg
2 tablespoons honey
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup cereal, crushed
(your choice)
*I used the Kroger version of Rice Krispies 😉
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking/cookie sheet with parchment paper. Set aside. In a large bowl, put all the ingredients in the order given and stir with a large spoon. To make these cookies all the same size, I used a 1/4 cup of batter for each, rolled into a ball and flattened slightly with the palms of my hands. I was able to make nine cookies. Bake for about 13-15 minutes, then remove from oven and let them sit on the sheet for five minutes before removing them to a wire rack to continue cooling.
They sound delicious Cathy!
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