Easy Banana Breakfast Cookies

I'm running out of ideas for breakfasts and quick snacks for the kids. I get tired of the same old stuff everyday and I'm sure they get tired of it too. Cereal bars, animal crackers, yogurt, fruit, blah blah blah... I had some leftover bananas and some quick cookie oats that I decided to toss together to see what would happen. I'd seen a couple recipes before that used these things together but for the life of me, I couldn't find them... yes, even on Pinterest. Ah well, I figured the worst thing that would happen is I ruin 2 bananas and a cup of oats. What's the harm?

The "batter" held up pretty well after mashing and mixing so I added a handful of dried cranberries for some tang and scooped it out onto a parchment lined baking sheet. What can I say? I'm lazy and always use parchment. It keeps the bottoms of things from burning as easily and avoids scrubbing and heavy clean up. I tossed some semi sweet chocolate chips on top of the "cookies" and threw them in the oven. 350 degrees is always my go-to temp if I don't know what I should bake something at. They took about 13ish minutes to firm up.

Let me just say, they came out of the oven and about 3 minutes later, I'd eaten 5 of them. They're good. My 4 year old is a big fan too - he asked if we could make them every day.

I think next time, I may add a dash of cinnamon and maybe a pinch of sea salt just to help bring out the flavors since they were a tad bland... but really, that didn't slow me down.

No oil, no flour, no eggs. Boom. Tasty treat.

Easy Banana Breakfast Cookies

2 Bananas, mashed
1 cup quick oats
Mix-ins: chocolate chips, dried fruit, nuts

Mix mashed bananas and oats. Stir in mix-ins (I mixed in my cranberries but put the chocolate chips on top after they were panned). Spoon onto a lined cookie sheet a smush flat to be about 1/2 inch thick. Put chocolate chips on top. Bake at 350 for 13-14 minutes. Makes about a dozen cookies.