I am currently working on an 8 week fitness challenge where I only get one day where sweets are allowed. What does that mean? Google searches like the following: "natural candy", "healthy cookies", "sugar free cake", etc. In my Google search for healthy cookies I came across a recipe on Pinterest that someone had labeled "No-Bake Health Banana Cookies". I LOVE bananas, but have developed an allergy to them, so I sadly had to pass that by. Lucky for us though, Mattie is not allergic to bananas and tried this recipe out...and then sent the results to us.
The Original Pin
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| http://www.tastingpage.com/cooking/healthy-banana-cookies |
Looks like no bake cookies...sorta. Here's what Mattie had to say about them:
"So, spoiler alert--these are not no-bake cookies. You DO bake them and they do not taste like cookies. They taste like the 3 ingredients that the recipe boasted about: banana, oatmeal, and...wait a second. I'm beginning to see what went wrong here."
The Pinstrosity
"It started fairly mundane. I pulled my nasty old bananas out of the freezer, thawed them, slit open the peels and squeezed them into my mixing bowl. Then I added the oats (I even measured!). Then...well, I went off-script. I added cocoa powder, cinnamon, and a teaspoon of vanilla extract. All good things. I covered my cookie sheet with foil, popped them in the oven and waited 15 minutes. I pulled them out and they were...bananas and oats. Amazingly, they had firmed up and I like the chewy texture, but I would guess they need a little fat, like walnuts as the recipe recommends or peanut butter. (I didn't use my peanut butter because I have the organic stuff right now and it's a little runny and I worried the cookies would just fall apart.) Plus, they stuck to the foil, so their firm little bottoms ripped off."
Anywho, I plan to take them to work as snacks, but I would do a couple things differently:
1) add a fatty ingredient. They are cookies, after all.
2) oil the cookie sheet (or foil).
3) Call them something besides cookies.
Cookie? Not Cookie. Sad sad day.
