Dark Chocolate Cranberry Breakfast Cookies
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
- ½ cup Dutch process cocoa
- 1½ cups whole wheat flour
- 1½ cup old fashioned oatmeal
- 1 cup sugar (optional: use ½ sugar and ½ stevia)
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ cup no sugar added applesauce
- ½ cup canned black beans rinsed
- 2 large egg whites
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup dark or semi sweet chocolate chips
- ½ cup dried 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.