Healthy Trail Mix Cookies
These trail mix cookies are made with bananas, rolled oats, nuts, and dried fruit for a healthy cookie that you can enjoy for breakfast or as a snack. They’re easy to make and filled with good-for-you ingredients!
After enjoying these 3 ingredient breakfast cookies, I decided to give them a little twist by adding in some nuts and dried fruits. It adds a little more texture and flavor, but they’re still easy to make! I also added a bit of flour to create a texture that’s a little more similar to a traditional cookie.
Trail Mix Cookie Ingredients
- Bananas– Make sure your bananas are very ripe since there’s no added sugar in this recipe and the sweetness will come from the bananas.
- Rolled Oats– For this recipe, you want to use old-fashioned oats or rolled oats, not quick oats. This will give the cookies a hearty, chewy texture.
- All-Purpose Flour– You can substitute gluten-free flour, if needed.
- Salt– A pinch of salt helps to bring out the sweetness of the cookies.
- Chocolate Chips– These add a little more sweetness, but you can substitute with more nuts, if you want to keep the sugar down.
- Walnuts– Feel free to substitute with pecans or almonds, if you don’t have walnuts available.
- Shredded Coconut– I used sweetened coconut because that’s what I had in my pantry but unsweetened coconut shreds will work, too!
- Raisins– These add a little sweetness, but you can use dried cranberries or cherries, instead!
How to Make Trail Mix Cookies
In a large bowl, mash the banana with a fork.
Add the remaining ingredients to the bowl.
Stir until combined and there are no dry streaks of flour.
Drop rounded tablespoons onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes.
Trail Mix Breakfast Cookies
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 15 mins
- Total Time: 17 mins
- Yield: 16 cookies 1x
- Category: Snack
- Method: Baked
- Cuisine: Snack
- Diet: Vegan
Description
These trail mix cookies are made with bananas, rolled oats, nuts, and dried fruit for a healthy cookie that you can enjoy for breakfast or as a snack. They’re easy to make and filled with good-for-you ingredients!
Ingredients
- 2 medium, ripe bananas, well mashed (about 1 cup)
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon chocolate chips
- 1 tablespoon raisins
- 1 tablespoon crushed walnuts
- 1 tablespoon shredded coconut
Instructions
- Move the oven rack to the top middle position.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl, mash the bananas until soft.
- Add in the oats, flour, and salt until well mixed.
- Then add in chocolate chips, raisins, cranberries, walnuts, and coconut flakes.
- Drop rounded tablespoons of dough onto the prepared baking sheet.
- Bake for 13-15 minutes until golden brown.
Keywords: healthy trail mix cookies
Looking for more healthy cookies? Try these applesauce breakfast cookies!
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.”
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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Gorgeous pictures!!! I love mixing up breakfast…cookies would definitely make me happy in the morning 🙂
Cookies for breakfast? Hmm how could you go wrong? These look fantastic!
Oh wow what a fantastic recipe! I really struggle with finding Breakfast foods I like! These look so good.
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!
yumm to the um
These look great, I love cranberries so any cookie with dried cranberries in them sound delicious to me 🙂
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!
Such a great idea, yum!