Hearty Cookie #2

Mine weren't nearly as ooey goey, but they are delicious! I didn't make the homemade PB chips, so I stuck in twice as many chocolate chips. I definitely classify these as breakfast cookies. The girls are delighted for a new breakfast treat (definitely will work for travel!), but they ate them this afternoon, as a snack--no problem.

Here are the stats for 1/15th of the recipe.  I'll try to make each cookie slightly smaller next time.

1 cup dates
1 medium ripe banana
2 Tbsp Peanut Butter
1 cup almond meal (ground from raw almonds)
1 cup rolled oats
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup dark chocolate chips

Soak pitted dates for 10 minutes and then stick them in your food processor.
Add banana, salt, vanilla, and pb; process them into the mixture.
Add oats and almond meal.

Put the mixture into a bowl and add the chocolate chips.
Form into cookies and bake at 350 (in a preheated oven) for15-20 minutes.  Mine were so big that they needed 19 minutes. (I let them go until 20--still good.)

 
Raw

 
Raw

 

Cooked

 Cooked

Here's a link to a hearty cookie (#1). The pb in the new recipe makes the cookies taste very different from the first ones.