Get your day started with Low Calorie Breakfast Cookies, a perfect combo of healthy and hearty ingredients. These are a great grab-and-go breakfast or snack, and will keep you fueled for busy days ahead.
Course Breakfast, Snack
Cuisine American
Keyword low calorie breakfast cookies, oatmeal breakfast cookies
Prep Time 15 minutesminutes
Cook Time 15 minutesminutes
Total Time 30 minutesminutes
Servings 18cookies
Calories 176kcal
Author Sue Ringsdorf
Ingredients
2 1/2cupsoatmeal
1/2cupall-purpose flour
1teaspoonbaking soda
1/2teaspoonbaking powder
1/2teaspoonkosher salt
1teaspooncinnamon
1/4cupunsalted butter- melted
1/4cuphoney
1cupcinnamon applesauce
3/4cupchunky peanut butter
1/2cupraspberry jam- or any flavor
1/2cuppeanuts- chopped
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. (No need to chill these cookies.)
In a large mixing bowl, combine the dry ingredients - oatmeal, flour, choppped peanuts, salt, cinnamon, baking soda, and baking powder.
In a small bowl, add the butter and peanut butter, and melt in microwave. Mix well, and then add honey and applesauce and combine.
Pour the wet ingredients into the dry, and mix well.
Form the dough into about 18 cookie balls, and arrange evenly on two baking sheets (prepared with parchment paper). Use your thumbs to press a hole in the center of each ball of dough. Fill with about one teaspoon of jelly.
Bake for 15-18 minutes, or until the cookies are nicely browned on top. Let them sit a bit before removing to cooling racks.
Notes
These breakfast cookies are best stored in the refrigerator. You can also freeze them for a few months (wrapped in freezer bags).