Last week, I mentioned my trail mix salad. Basically, a short cut to a delicious salad.
So maybe I’ve had trail mix on my brain a little too much. What can I say? I love the stuff, but it’s also pretty dangerous. (The serving size for trail mix is ridiculous. Almost as ridiculous as the serving size for ice cream.)
Anyways. I wanted to make some cookies, inspired by trail mix, but still relatively low in calories. They came out less like a dessert, and more like something you’d grab for an on-the-go breakfast. Actually, I think they’d be quite awesome crumbled up over a bowl of yogurt. But that’s just my guess.
Trail Mix Breakfast Cookies
- 2 medium, ripe bananas, well mashed (about 1 cup)
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cups rolled oats
- 1/4 cup flour or almond meal (if you’re trying to stay GF)
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp chocolate chips
- 1 tbsp rasins
- 1 tbsp dried cranberries
- 1 tbsp crushed walnuts
- 1 tbsp shredded unsweetened coconut
Make sure your bananas are well mashed. Stir in vanilla until combined. Add in your oats, flour, baking powder and salt until well mixed. Ten add in chocolate chips, raisins, cranberries, walnuts, and coconut flakes. You could also add in almonds, dried fruit, or anything else you might find in trail mix. I literally pulled those things out of some Wholesome Goodness Yukon Mix.
Drop rounded tablespoons onto a baking sheet sprayed with non-stick cooking spray (otherwise they will stick!) and bake at 350 for about 12 minutes. They will be a bit brown on the bottom, but should stay looking light. It makes 12 medium sized cookies. They’re really chewy and moist, and they’re relatively healthy, for a cookie 
These cookies only have 70 calories and 2g of fat!
For full nutritional info, click here.
Consider this your excuse to eat cookies for breakfast.
The rest of the weekend can be summed up here:
Dirty Dancing theme party with my roommates (Me, Rachel & Stephanie… we don’t normally dress like that) and browsing the market downtown on Saturday with Lindsay. We ran into Brian and had a fun time looking through all the cool art. I love how there is always something going on in Richmond. I think it’s part of why I love the city so much.
Such a great idea, yum!
These look great! No eggs and no butter? I am so making these for breakfast right now, thanks for sharing this recipe Liz!
They’re vegan!
Hope you enjoy them my dear!
These look great, I love cranberries so any cookie with dried cranberries in them sound delicious to me
yumm to the um
Wow, i just tried these little guys, they are delicious!
Haha you’re fast!!! I’m glad you tried them
You should tweet me a pic!
Oh wow what a fantastic recipe! I really struggle with finding Breakfast foods I like! These look so good.
Cookies for breakfast? Hmm how could you go wrong? These look fantastic!
Gorgeous pictures!!! I love mixing up breakfast…cookies would definitely make me happy in the morning
I wish you would come here and cook breakfast for me. This sounds way more exciting than my Eggo waffles and hot chocolate that I eat every morning.
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Ooo, I love healthy breakfast cookies! Is it bad that, given my choice of cookies, I’d choose a healthy less-than-sweet one full of banana, nuts and goodies? I mean, I love a good oily oatmeal raisin cookie, but I’m good after one and I really don’t want one more than once a week or so. Yeah, I’m a dork. Who is also peeved by the serving sizes of trail mix. Most are a quarter cup or something ridiculous like that. Really?? No thank you, I have just reinterpreted that serving size to mean “the whole bag.”
mmm yum. only 70 cals? so i can eat like 4 at once? YEAH.
Ohh… I love this! I’m always looking for easy breakfast ideas for my boys. They always think I’ve gone crazy when I actually let them have cookies for breakfast!
Hmm ginger molasses with cinn-sugar on top. Or, a decadent buttery sugar cookie with buttercream icing. Yeah I think I’ll go with that one!
Ok, now you’ve got me craving some cookies!
Great idea! The grab-n-go quality takes away the eat-the-entire-bag quality of normal trail mix.
My ultimate breakfast cookie would be anything chewy, rich, and large. Extra large.
Trail mix cookies sound like my kinda cookie!
Cute blog! This sounds delicious!
Liz, you’ve done it again! These look great.
YUM, can’t wait to try these!!
Love your Dirty Dancing themed party! What a fun idea!
These look sooo good. I have a problem with eating cookies for breakfast..I wish I could say I have to justify the “naughty” cookies, but I don’t. I eat ANY cookie for breakfast!
ANZAC biscuits. They’re Australian and quite possibly my favourite Aussie food. Super easy to make as well. Plus they have oats and coconut in them so sort of breakfasty?
ummm cookies for breakfast? Sign me up. If I could eat any cookies for bfast, it would probably be peanut butter chocolate chip. Yep that sounds about perfect.
Trail Mix is the best! I like it in any form – especially in cookies.
These look great! I just made quinoa/oat cookies and totally justified eating them for breakfast…chocolate and all!
Ohh those look yummy and I would love them with some yogurt or oats. My fav cookie is by far chocolate chip cookies! My babies love them also. They would rather have brownies or cookies vs. cake, they get that from mom, haha
I would eat a big almond butter chocolate chip cookie with a side of strawberries — to “justify” it.
Your trail mix cookies sound amazing though — they would be great for a quick breakfast (which I’m in dire need of right now). Thanks so much! 
My ultimate breakfast cookie would be french fries. Oh… that’s not a cookie you say? Too bad…I’ve got a carb tooth not a sweet tooth and this is my breakfast fantasy
Love this recipe – and any excuse to eat cookies really! And how adorable are you?!
Love it Liz!
i can TOTALLY dig on a 70 calorie cookie!
Great party theme. My college roommates and I did a 70s party and all tried to dress like Charlie’s Angels but we looked more like 70s housewives.
I had a spurt where I lived on Baker’s Breakfast Cookies. Oatmeal raisin were delicious!
Just love all your pictures!! And such great idea! I’m always looking for grab-n-go munchies! These sound perfect
Dark chocolate or oatmeal raisin cookies? hehe..Good for my heart, right?
Oh wow those look so wonderfully yummy! I am going to have to give them a try!
They look delicious! Hmmmmm lemon cookies for breakfast please : )
Wow, those look delicious!! Thanks for the recipe. It looks like you had a fun weekend (I love that you confirmed that you don’t always dress like that
)
I’d love peanut butter cookies for breakfast- just like my grandmother used to make!
I would love to eat oatmeal cookies for breakfast… it’s oatmeal! Kind of like these yummies. I’m pinning.
I actually would probably eat a ‘healthy’ cookie like this. I love the texture. Cookies aren’t cookies unless they are big, chewy, and full of flavor. I’m not a HUGE cookie girl, but I do have a thing for Oreos.
I realize Oreos do not fit into the cookie I said I like. It’s kind of how I think cake should be homemade and sloppy but also get weird cravings for grocery store sheet cake.
Oatmeal chocolate chip for sure (hey, oatmeal’s a breakfast food, right?!?).
Love the idea of a Dirty Dancing theme party!!
Looks like an awesome on-the-go healthy and delicious breakfast. Definitely giving them a try!