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Peanut Butter Breakfast Cookies are a healthier way to eat cookies for breakfast. Save money and skip buying those expensive breakfast cookies at the store by making your own at home.
Kids and adults alike LOVE these easy breakfast cookies!
Breakfast and snacks are always hard for me. I’m not usually very hungry in the morning so I eat cereal, which leaves me starving after I exercise. These peanut butter breakfast cookies make the best snack for me for a quick bite after my workout.
Have you shopped the snack and granola bar aisle lately? There are so many breakfast replacement and granola bar choices these days and my daughter loves them all. Most of all, she loves the breakfast cookies. They’re not super bad for her so I’m okay with her having them but they’re so expensive: often $5 for 4! That’s why I created this recipe, to try and make a snack that she likes so she can have her cookie for breakfast but without all that cost.
I made banana breakfast cookies years ago and they got rave reviews, so I decided to make our favorite flavor this time: peanut butter with chocolate chips!
Peanut Butter Breakfast Cookies have a bunch of healthy ingredients like whole wheat flower, oats, and flax seeds, making them a better choice for breakfast!
These cookies look like cookies. But they’re much healthier than regular treats…so you can eat them in the morning. I added mini chocolate chips because if I can have chocolate for breakfast I’m a happy girl, but you can leave that out.
Healthy breakfast cookies for the win!
These breakfast cookies have a bunch of good-for-you ingredients:
- Whole wheat flour
- Oats
- Flax
- Egg
- Peanut Butter
I use a bit of brown sugar for sweetness and a touch of oil for binding, but the rest of the ingredients are better for you. Plus, when you make breakfast cookies at home you get to control the ingredients!
Each cookie with chocolate chips is about 160 calories; without them they’re about 130. They pack over 4 grams of protein per cookie. Now, I know that 160 calories is a lot but how many cookies can you say have 4 grams of protein? Not very many, I’m sure!
These would also be great for an after school snack. They’ll satisfy the kids’ requests for cookies, but keep them full until dinner. They’re slightly sweet but not overly so and are very satisfying. They’d even satisfy a sweet tooth after dinner without wrecking your diet.
These are very crumbly when they come out of the oven. They’ll firm up as they cool so don’t remove them from the cookie sheets until they’ve completely cooled. They’re not a chewy regular cookie, they’re more like a cross between granola and those easy gluten-free peanut butter cookies in texture and taste. Just wait until they’re cooled to move them, then they’ll stand up to holding.
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Peanut Butter Breakfast Cookies
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons oil liquid coconut or vegetable oil
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 tablespoons ground flaxseed meal
- 3/4 cup quick oats
- 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
- 1/4 cup mini chocolate chips optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a cookie sheet with a slipat baking mat or parchment paper.
- Using a stand or hand mixer, mix peanut butter, brown sugar, and oil until smooth. Stir in egg, then mix in baking soda, flaxseed meal, oats, and whole wheat flour. Stir in chocolate chips (optional but yummy).
- Using a 2 tablespoon cookie scoop, scoop uniform size balls of dough onto your cookie sheet. They won’t spread, so they can be semi-close together. Press down slightly with the tines of a fork.
- Bake for about 9-11 minutes, until the bottoms start to get golden. Do not remove from cookie sheet until they are cooled. These are very fragile until they have time to set. They’ll still be more crumbly than a normal cookie, but will stay together once cool.
- Great for breakfast or for an after-school snack! Store in an airtight container for up to 3 days or freeze for up to one month.
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I just had actual cookies for breakfast and now I’m wishing I had these SINCE I’m currently regretting that unhealthy decision!
LOL, you sound like me Mimi! 🙂
Seriously I think I’m in utter love with the idea of a breakfast cookie!!
Thanks Jocelyn!
Oh good–I’m not the only one worried about my over-consumption of sweets influencing my blood? Glad to hear you are, too. 😉 These look delicious! So much better than the breakfast I just ate. Yummm! Hope you had a great kid-less NYE, Dorothy!
Today I’ve had two bites of pie, at least 1 1/2 cinnamon rolls, a bite of brownie, and 10 licks of frostings (for testing purposes, of course). I think I’m going to burn out my sugar tastebuds!
Cookies for breakfast… I’m in 🙂 Good luck with the rest of your cookbook!
OMG. Can I tell you how desperately I need a REAL check up. Like relying on the OB for check ups isn’t really wise. (But I can’t stand any more appointments after four pregnancies in six years.) And hello dentist! I’m not even sure what it’s like to go there anymore. Anyway, I LOVE these cookies. 130 calories does NOT seem like a lot. Seems like I could have two with a cup of coffee and be good to go 😉 Who are we kidding. Three cookies, six cups of coffee.
I am officially making a resolutions list just so I can have cookies for breakfast. These are great! Peanut butter and oats is such a satisfying combo! I can’t wait to see the finished cookbook; I know it will be fantastic. These cookies are a great start to 2014!
I am with you, I don’t do resolutions. I sometimes have one goal for a year but not more than that. I do however get my yearly appts in to check blood levels etc but it’s just the scientist in me lol! Hopefully you make it in soon!! These cookies look amazing and I love the specks of flaxseeds in them. So hearty 🙂 Happy New Year!!
Need.to.make. I’m curious: What are the white specks in the cookies? I assumed sea salt when I first saw the picture, but don’t see if in your ingredients.
LOVE these Dorothy. I mean really, cookies for breakfast? Yes please. Happy New Year!!
Thanks Aimee! You too!
I used to be able to buy a certain breakfast cookie that was soft but hearty and weren’t processed at all!. Then they disappeared. I do believe I need to give your version a try! I believe they are exactly what I am looking for.
Thanks Tanya! Enjoy! Happy New Year!
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