Breakfast Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 Tbsp flax seed or 1.5 Tbsp Flax seed meal 

• 3 Tbsp water

• 1.5 cups oat flour (you can just put regular oats in the blender to make your own oat flour)

• 1 tsp baking powder

• 1 tsp salt (important)

• ½ cup almond butter (other nut butters work too, or for a nut-free option, use Sunbutter)

• ¼ cup maple syrup (optional, can replace with another ripe banana)

• 1 ripe banana, mashed

• 1 tsp vanilla extract

• ½ tsp almond extract

• Raisins or chocolate chips as desired

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175°C).

2. Blend water and flax seeds until no whole flax seeds are left. (If using flax seed meal, just combine flax meal and water.) Let this mixture sit for 5 minutes to create a “flax egg.”)

3. Mix dry ingredients in a bowl.

4. Add almond butter, maple syrup, banana, vanilla, almond extract, and “flax egg”. Mix until fully combined.

5. Add raisins/chocolate chips as desired.

6. Drop cookies onto a lined baking sheet.

7. Bake for about 12 minutes.