Currently in the Oven

    I am currently craving cookies SO BADLY... and I'm bored with breakfast. So I go in the kitchen to see what I have. There's the basic stuff: flour, baking powder, eggs, butter, brown sugar, etc. I have vanilla extract, cinnamon, oats, peanut butter, honey. Those sound good in some sort of concoction together. There's also a very ripe banana that no one is going to eat... or will they? Ah! Banana+Peanut Butter+Honey= HEAVEN. So how do I incorporate these into a cookie? Well, actually, I'll be incorporating these into a breakfast cookie, a peanut butter banana oat breakfast cookie, to be exact. I actually found a recipe similar to this one on Pinterest, but I ended up adding so many things to it that it's hardly the same, anymore.

Here's how it went:

     I started out by just scooping a bunch of flour into a mixing bowl. It ended up being about 3 cups + 2 tbsp. I put in two tsp of cinnamon and 1 tbsp. + 1 tsp of baking powder + a teeeeeeeny tiny pinch of salt. I mixed all of that together and then I started on the banana/peanut butter/honey mixture. I put 1 ripe banana sliced up into my blender, and then a 1/2 cup of honey and about a 1/3 cup of peanut butter. Blend all that together until smooth, and you've got your heavenly mixture. Melt 6 tbsp of butter. Pour 1/2 a cup to 1 cup of quick oats (or whatever other oats you prefer and like to bake with) and then add the melted butter. Stir with a fork till thoroughly combined. Add 1 egg to the mixture and 2 tsp of vanilla extract and stir together. Lastly, add your banana/peanut butter/honey mixture and mix until it's all thick and sticky and well incorporated. Make sure to either bake them on a parchment sheet or grease your cookie sheet, just to be safe. I took an ice cream scoop and scooped it out that way, leveling it off before plopping it on the cookie sheet. Bake them at 325. (I made one test cookie at 350 and had to turn it down to 325 because the bottoms brown quickly.) Bake for 20-25 minutes or until lightly browned on top. This recipe makes about a dozen cookies.

                         
                                                               
These are sugarless, so they're not going to be that sweet, desserty cookie. They're breakfast cookies and they're VERY good with honey drizzled on top. They're a little bit like a muffin! (I may even try one with jelly.) I'm very excited to rewarm one or two in the morning and have it with my coffee.

Baking is about the only thing I want to do on a night like this one. (It's 9 degrees here in TN, and it'll be 3 degrees in the morning! Yikes!!)

Update: Here's the ingredient list in an easier-to-read fashion.

3 cups + 2 tbsp all purpose flour

1 tbsp + 1tsp baking powder

pinch of salt

2 tsp cinnamon

1 ripe banana

1/2 cup honey

1/3 cup peanut butter

6 tbsp butter (melted)

1/2 cup oats

1 large egg

2 tsp vanilla extract