Healthy cookies!

[arielmoon]

I have been making these and they are a hit where ever I take them.

For variation I alternate using 1/2 cup Enjoy Life Vegan Semi sweet chocolate chips in place of the raisins. I have also used both Oat and Buckwheat flours instead of white wheat flour. I use ground flax seed for the first ingredient.

The best part is that they are healthy and taste great at the same time!

Recipe here from this fantastic site Fat Free Vegan Kitchen

[softthings]

ff vegan kitchen rules! she always has the best food porn too.

[nscrbug]

Those sound mighty tasty. But I'm not a huge fan of maple syrup (except for when it's on pancakes or waffles..lol)...so I'm wondering if honey would be an okay substitute there?

[arielmoon]

I dont use honey (being vegan) but I did substitute half the syrup with agave and you could not tell the difference. I wouldnt say you even taste the maple in it. The flavor is more the oats and banana to me!

[deeaimond]

So i tried the recipe and added another one for a bonus....

http://hungryhostelite.blogspot.com/...g-cupcake.html

[crazycanuck]

They look super yummy but what if i don't have any 1 teaspoon ground chia seeds or 2 tsp. egg replacer powder or 2 tsp. ground flaxseed in my house & want to make them this morning...

Can you suggest something to this non vegan

yummmmm

[deeaimond]

i didn't use a binder... I just used more banana. i think the lady who created the recipe said use half a banana more or something

[shootingstar]

So is that your blog, Dee?

I used to bake a banana-chocolate chip cookie. The cookies stayed soft and lovely for a few days in an airtight container.

Very ripe bananas can add alot of sweetness, thereby cutting down the sugar even more in recipe.

[deeaimond]

yeah, next batch i'm cutting the sugar.

and yes shootingstar, thats my bloggggggg

[arielmoon]

crazycanuck: The ground flax is an egg replacer so I would guess one egg.

One batch I made, I mixed all the ingredients and forgot the flax sitting on the counter! They baked up just fine and were just as moist as the other batch. One time I ran out of maple syrup and replaced 1/2 with agave and that was fine too. I am kinda experimenting as I go. Most of the ingredients I already had on hand. I use all organic except the maple syrup cause that is crazy expensive unless you buy the $30+ jug I like that the oats give them texture and balance to the sweet, especially the one with chocolate chips!

One of the guys from the bike shop placed really well in a crit yesterday and I told him it was the cookies. He is calling them Turbo Cookies now!