These easy Breakfast Cookies made with peanut butter and banana are the perfect healthy start to your mornings! So simple to make, healthy, high in protein, gluten-free, sugar-free, and ideal for kids.

Healthy Breakfast Cookies are a perfect for start to the day when you’re on the go. Especially when time is tight and the chances of breakfast are slipping away.

BUT have you seen how expensive shop-bought breakfast biscuits are?! They are also often highly processed with lots of additives and sugar.

Here’s my solution. I love how simple these banana oat cookies are to make and the fact that I know exactly what’s gone into them. Ingredients are cheap and they taste amazing. All round winner.

They’re made using very ripe (in fact, the blacker the better) bananas, oats, peanut butter, cinnamon and chocolate chips are optional. 

This is a no-flour recipe, which means these are gluten-free Breakfast Cookies, (if you use GF oats) and there’s no refined sugar (you can also omit the honey if you prefer). 

I hope you enjoy these to start your day with a nice cuppa, or put them in your kids’ hands as they run out the door to school… perfect!

Why you’ll love this Breakfast Cookies recipe

Healthy, delicious breakfast option

So convenient for out and about

Make a batch ahead for ease

Other make-ahead breakfast options

Breakfast is often the meal people miss the most. Busy mornings without the time to put into making a healthy meal means it often goes on the back burner. 

But a good breakfast sets you up for the day and stops those pesky cravings later on. My saviour is make-ahead breakfasts that have been batch-cooked when I’ve had more time, meaning my future frantic morning self is saved from a rumbling tummy!

Here are a few other options to get you organised: 

Meal Prep Breakfast Muffins

Healthy Breakfast Muffins

Easy Slow Cooker Granola

Overnight Oats

Easy Baked Oats

Granola Bars

Breakfast Cookies Ingredients notes

• Bananas – These need to be very ripe for mashing, NOT firm or green at all. The banana skins should be very speckled, or (ideally) almost totally brown or black on the skins. Think ‘past their best’ as a piece of fruit for snacking on
• Chocolate chips – You can leave these out if you prefer, but they do add a bit of deliciousness

Top tip

The bananas need to be very ripe. Did you know that ripe bananas have so much more natural sweetness than very yellow bananas? 

When we have bananas left uneaten I just pop them in the freezer for whenever I need a ripe banana, which is great for reducing food waste.

More delicious breakfast recipes…

Breakfast

American Pancakes {Easy Recipe!}

Slow Cooker

Slow Cooker Porridge

Breakfast

Shakshuka Recipe {with Chorizo}

Lunch Ideas

Frittata Recipe {Smoked Salmon and Broccoli}

FAQs

This easy Oat Cookies recipe works every time. Soft and chewy, these are the best simple oat cookies around. Perfect for lunch boxes and snacks!

These Oat Cookies are a favourite after school snack here (or mid morning, or lunch, or any time in fact.) 

They are a little crispy on the outside, pillowy soft inside and best news yet, they work every flipping time.

My children call them Flapjack Cookies (they’ve kind of got that flapjack thing going on), I call them Chewy Oat Cookies. 

Whatever you want to call them, make them and I promise, you’ll be super impressed by your baking skills.

Why you’ll love this Oat Cookies recipe

No time to bake? These are done in half an hour

A little healthier than your standard cookie

Failsafe, no spreading, they work every time

Oat Cookies Ingredients Notes

• Unsalted butter – Make sure to bring your butter to room temperature before using. I prefer to use unsalted butter and add salt to the recipe to ensure the flavour is just right
• Oats – Generally found in 2 or even 3 types: jumbo, porridge (rolled oats) – slightly smaller, sightly bashed – and instant oats. Instant oats are really not suitable. I used 100g rolled oats and 25g of jumbo oats for extra bite and texture. It’s fine to use all rolled oats, don’t buy jumbo if you haven’t got them. You could use ALL jumbo but the cookies will be drier and more crumbly
• Brown sugar – I have used soft light brown sugar to give a soft, chewy texture and light caramel flavour
• Vanilla extract – Be sure to use vanilla extract, not essence. It’s a much better, natural flavour
• Raisins – These are Oat Raisin Cookies, you can leave the raisins out if you prefer, but they do transform into sweet delicious nuggets when cooked. Be sure to use them from a fresh packet, not an ancient dried out pack at the back of the cupboard!

How to make Oat Cookies

1. Beat your butter and sugar together (either in a stand mixer, with a hand mixer or by hand). Then add in the egg and vanilla extract.
2. Mix in the flour, cinnamon, baking powder, salt, oats and raisins. Beat the mixture until a stiff dough forms.
3. Scoop out the mixture into balls.
4. Place onto a baking paper-lined baking tray and bake for 12-14 minutes.

Variations on the Oat Cookies Recipe

• Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies – Replace the raisins with chocolate chips
• Breakfast Oatmeal Cookies – Add a very ripe, peeled and mashed banana to the recipe with the egg
• Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies – Omit the raisins and add 75g of Chunky Peanut Butter

If you need a simple, never-fails, baking go-to when the time calls for it, this Easy Cookies recipe is a surefire hit. Here are all the tips and tricks you need to get perfect, chewy and delicious cookies, every time. They’re ideal for kids’ baking fun!

Having a basic but foolproof cookie recipe up your sleeve is a must for either entertaining the kids who love to bake, for friends around treats, end of term gifts or any time you fancy. 

I wanted to make sure this Easy Cookies recipe is going to tick all the boxes when it comes to basic store cupboard ingredients; a simple, low effort method to follow; perfectly cooked cookie dough; and chewy, delicious cookies at the end.

With just 6 ingredients and half an hour of effort (with a little freezing time in between, so make sure you have a little room in your freezer), you can then customise them with whatever filling you choose (Smarties, choc chips… the list is endless.) 

You can use an electric mixer if you have one but you don’t have to – simply follow a few tips and tricks below to get simple but fun cookies, every time.

Why you’ll love this Easy Cookies recipe

Super easy for introductory kids’ baking

 Foolproof, super simple ingredients and method

Delicious and customisabled treats to share

It’s so simple to make these delicious Candy Cane Cookies. They make perfect festive treats, and can also be packaged up and given as gifts too!

Christmas cookies are fantastic if you’re doing some festive baking, contributing to a bake sale, or gifting some homemade treats. 

The Candy Cane Cookies are easy enough to make if you’re a baking beginner, or if you’re baking with kids during the holiday season. 

They’re chocolatey with a hint of peppermint – so delicious!

Why you’ll love this Christmas Cookies recipe

Fun to make and pretty

Perfect for kids or sharing out

Easy and quick for baking days