Enjoy cookies for breakfast! These dark chocolate cranberry breakfast cookies are healthy enough to start your day or enjoy post workout or for a midmeal snack.
Ingredients
½cupDutch process cocoa
1½cupswhole wheat flour
1½cupold fashioned oatmeal
1cupsugar (optional: use ½ sugar and ½ stevia)
2teaspoons baking powder
½teaspoonbaking soda
½cupno sugar added applesauce
½cupcanned black beansrinsed
2largeegg whites
1teaspoonvanilla extract
½cupdark or semi sweet chocolate chips
½cupdried cranberries
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350°F.
In a medium bowl whisk together cocoa, flour, oats, sugar, baking powder and baking soda.
In a blender, puree applesauce, black beans, egg whites and vanilla until smooth,
Mix wet ingredients into dry ingredients with chocolate chips and cranberries.
Scoop cookie dough by tablespoonful onto a baking sheet leaving an inch or more between cookies. Press each down until ½" thick.
Bake 8-10 minutes. Move to a cooling rack to cool completely.