Zucchini Breakfast Cookies
These Healthy Cookies are filled with wholesome ingredients like oats, zucchini, and banana that will keep you feeling full, and are totally acceptable to eat for breakfast.
Who doesn’t love getting in your vegetables by eating cookies!? Of course, these cookies have the addition of chocolate chips because chocolate is acceptable to eat for breakfast…right? I based this cookie recipe off of the most popular recipe on my blog, which is my recipe for Healthy Banana Oat Cookies (which has been saved over 3,000 times on my Pinterest, featured in Nyota Magazine, and reviewed on the For Vegans By Vegans YouTube Channel!).
Zucchini is a wonderful vegetable that is versatile and delicious during the summer months. Although, one of my favorite ways to eat zucchini happens to be in baked goods like bread, muffins, and these cookies!
Zucchini Breakfast Cookie Recipe Breakdown
These cookies are made with a gluten-free base of oats and oat flour. If you have never worked with oat flour before, it can easily be made by processing whole oats in a blender or food processor until you have reached flour consistency.
Of course, these Zucchini Breakfast Cookies call for grated zucchini! It is important to squeeze out most of the water from the zucchini once it has been grated. You may use a thin dish towel or paper towels to do this. Squeezing out more water will result in a slightly lighter cookie while leaving more water will result in a denser texture.
A combination of peanut butter and coconut oil helps give these cookies a moist and chewy texture while adding a healthy source of fat. I like to use natural chunky peanut butter in this recipe because I enjoy the texture of the peanuts, but you may use whatever you prefer as long as it is natural. Natural peanut butter should only have two items on the ingredient list: peanuts and salt. You may also substitute another nut or seed butter, although it may slightly alter the taste.
Mashed banana works in this recipe as a vegan egg replacement as well as a source of natural sweetness. These cookies also call for 4-5 tablespoons of maple syrup depending on desired sweetness. These cookies are super versitile and the dough is very forgiving, so feel free to add even less or more maple syrup to make them your own!
The addition of ground cinnamon is optional in this recipe, but I really enjoy the depth of flavor that it adds to these amazing cookies! You may also add more or less chocolate chips to this recipe depending on how much chocolate you desire. Sometimes I opt to just put them on top of each cookie rather than combine them in the batter.
Looking for more healthy cookie recipes? Check out some of my other favorite cookie recipes like Healthy Banana Oat Cookies, Chickpea Peanut Butter Cookies, Date Brownie Cookies, Healthy Peanut Butter Patties, and these Almond Flour Pumpkin Cookies.
Zucchini Breakfast Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups of old fashioned oats gluten-free if desired
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons of oat flour made by blending whole oats in a blender or food processor until flour consistency is reached
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 overripe mashed banana
- 1 cup of grated zucchini – about one small-medium zucchini patted and squeezed until dry
- 4-5 tablespoons maple syrup depending on desired sweetness
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 tablespoons melted coconut oil
- 1/4 cup of peanut butter can be substituted with preferred nut or seed butter, but the flavor of the cookies may change
- 1/3 cup chocolate chips I like to use mini and vegan if desired plus more for topping
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Whisk the first 6 dry ingredients in a medium bowl until combined.
- Add in the rest of the ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir until well combined.
- Drop heaping tablespoons of dough onto prepared baking sheet and press down slightly to flatten (these cookies do not spread a lot in the oven).
- Bake for 7-8 minutes or until lightly golden brown. Cool on wire rack and enjoy!
so amazing