I’ve seen cookie recipes where honey is used in place of sugar, avocado is used in place of butter and oats are used in place of flour however, I haven’t found anything that incorporates ALL of these substitutes.

Since I’m pretty adept, I figured I would give it a whirl. My very scientific question: if you sub all the processed ingredients for healthier alternatives, can you still get a decent cookie? The answer is yes.

Healthy Cookie Recipe Ingredients

– 2 c. oats

– 3/4 tsp. salt

– 1 tsp. cinnamon

– 1 tsp. baking powder

– 1 ripe avocado

– 1 ripe banana

– 2 eggs

– 1/4 c. honey

– 2 tbsp. peanut butter

– 2 tsp. vanilla

– 3/4 c. dark chocolate chips

Healthy Cookie Recipe Instructions

Heat oven to 375.

First, place 2 cups of oats on an ungreased cookie sheet and toast but don’t burn (about 15-20 min).

Then, place ONE cup of the toasted oats along with salt, cinnamon and baking powder in a food processor (I use a ninja) and grind into a fine flour-like powder.

Next, mash avocado and banana with a fork (make it smooth – no chunks). After that, put in bowl and with an electric mixer, and blend with 2 eggs, 2 tbsp. peanut butter, 1/4 cup honey and 1 tsp. vanilla.

Slowly add in flour-like mixture.

Stir in the SECOND cup of toasted oats and the chocolate chips. For the record, I didn’t add walnuts but I’d throw those in next time, too.

Grease cookie sheet (I used a spray coconut oil). Use a big spoon or ice cream scoop to form the dough into cookies on the sheet. Make sure to flatten them out a little so they aren’t balls because they won’t drop like other cookies.

Bake for about 17 minutes.

Remove from the oven and enjoy.

Healthy Cookie Nutritional Value

Recipe makes 18-20 cookies.

Nutrition per cookie (using My Fitness Pal recipe creator):

97 cal/13.5g carbs/2g protein/4.5g fat

Extra Notes

Next time, I will sub the 2 tbsp. peanut butter for 1 scoop of peanut butter flavored protein powder to try and boost the protein intake a little.

As mentioned previously, add walnuts or chopped pecans to give the cookies some crunch!

Lastly, if you aren’t a banana person, try using 2 mashed avocados instead of 1 avocado and 1 banana. For my cookies, I used a banana because I was worried the cookies wouldn’t be sweet enough. For the record, they were fine, and I like the taste of banana, so it worked for me.

If you try any of these additional substitutes first, LMK.

Conclusion:

10 out of 10, would bake again.