If you’ve spent much time on our site you know we’re veggie-loving twin sisters, registered dietitians and personal trainers and we have a thang for sweets. And if you’re new to our site, welcome to the place where we dish out the delicious, waistline friendly sweets and we take ‘em (you better believe we eat ‘em too, butter cup)! 😉 We inherited our wicked sweet canines from our Grandma Bubbles and there was no turning back! So what do we do to keep it from getting the best of us? Why, come up with waistline-friendly satisfying sweet treats like these, of course!:
Microwave Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
And now this yumster! After all, no matter what the reason – if you appreciate sweets, you’ve likely found yourself trying to fight off a chocolate craving. Well lucky for you, these cookies will end that fight! And peacefully, with you winning! 😉 They are loaded with nutrients and lots of chocolate deliciousness! Talk about a win-win!
These cookies are made with:
Bananas: We add this for natural sweetness with bloat-fighting potassium that helps to counter balance salt while also keeping your blood pressure in check!
Oats and Chia seeds: We love biting into chewy cookies (thank you oats!) and both oats and chia are packed with fiber, which swells in your stomach, taking space, making you feel more full while helping to regulate your blood sugar so that you don’t have an energy high and crash.
Peanut butter: Who’s obsessed?! Guilty as charged! 🙂 This was the ONLY food we would eat in the early parts of our lives. But for good reason—it’s yummy! And it’s got potassium and fiber to flush bloat from salt and from constipation, while offering protein to boot!
When baking these cookies keep in mind that they’ll remain pretty soft because of all of the wet ingredients Therefore, pay attention to the size we mention below when portioning them out on the cookie sheet. Also feel free to set half aside to put in the freezer! This will save you time in the future and prevent you from wasting any! Or better yet, freeze the cookies that you don’t eat immediately, this way when you want a sweet treat, you’ll have these healthy numbers to fall back on and you won’t be able to eat it impulsively as you’ll have to wait a few minutes for it to defrost. Then you can enjoy cool or heated!
Skinny Chocolate Chunky Cookies
These cookies are an ideal sweet treat – defrost one and heat (or eat defrosted, cold) when you want to kill your sweet tooth with delicious, waistline-friendly satisfaction!
Serves 24
Ingredients
- 3 ripe bananas (medium-sized)
- 2 cups old-fashioned oats
- ½ cup unsweetened applesauce
- ¼ cup peanut butter (chunky adds more crunch)
- ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder (or cacao powder)
- 3 tablespoons honey
- 1 tbsp. chia seeds (optional)
- ⅛ cinnamon (optional)
- ¼ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 °F
- In a large bowl, add mash bananas with a fork.
- Mix in the rest of the remaining ingredients and then allow the batter to set for around 20 minutes
- Using a tablespoon, place a level spoonful onto an ungreased baking sheet (can also be lined with parchment paper)
- Bake 10-12 minutes or until you notice the outside of the cookies start to lose their shine.
Amount per serving: approximately one cookie
Nutrition Facts: 123 calories, 5 g fat, 11 mg sodium, 111 mg potassium, 18 g carb, 3 g fiber, 9 g sugar, 3 g protein
** this includes chia seeds, cinnamon and chocolate chips
- 3 ripe bananas (medium-sized)
- 2 cups old-fashioned oats
- ½ cup unsweetened applesauce
- ¼ cup peanut butter (chunky adds more crunch)
- ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder (or cacao powder)
- 3 tablespoons honey
- 1 tbsp. chia seeds (optional)
- ⅛ tsp. cinnamon (optional)
- ¼ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (optional)
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
- In a large bowl, add mash bananas with a fork
- Mix in the rest of the remaining ingredients and then allow the batter to set for around 20 minutes
- Using a tablespoon, place a level spoonful onto an ungreased baking sheet (can also be lined with parchment paper)
- Bake 10-12 minutes or until you notice the outside of the cookies start to lose their shine.
They look great!
Thank you Pete! We hope you love them! xoxo