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!
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!
i can TOTALLY dig on a 70 calorie cookie!
Love this recipe – and any excuse to eat cookies really! And how adorable are you?! 🙂 Love it Liz!
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 😉
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! 🙂
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 🙂
These look great! I just made quinoa/oat cookies and totally justified eating them for breakfast…chocolate and all!
Trail Mix is the best! I like it in any form – especially in cookies. 🙂
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. 🙂
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?