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!
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!
Love your Dirty Dancing themed party! What a fun idea!
YUM, can’t wait to try these!! 🙂
Liz, you’ve done it again! These look great.
Cute blog! This sounds delicious!
Trail mix cookies sound like my kinda cookie!
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.
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! 😉
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!
mmm yum. only 70 cals? so i can eat like 4 at once? YEAH.