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    Home » Our latest posts » Breakfast and Brunch

    Dark Chocolate Cranberry Breakfast Cookies

    October 14, 2020 Filed Under: Breakfast and Brunch, Breakfast Bakes

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    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.

    Yes, you can have cookies for breakfast if they are these healthy Dark Chocolate Cranberry Breakfast Cookies.

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    These cookies have one main surprise ingredient: black beans. Don't let that scare you from trying them. It adds fiber and protein to the cookies while enhancing the chocolate flavor. My guys never knew they were in these cookies or the Black Bean Coconut Brownies.

    These are good when you initially make them, but honestly they are better the next day when the flavors have developed a bit and the cookies are chewier.

    I like to make a double batch to have on hand for quick on the go breakfasts or an after workout snack.

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    Dark Chocolate Cranberry Breakfast Cookies

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    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.

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    1. Wendy Klik

      October 15, 2020 at 6:30 am

      Cookies for breakfast? Well, yes please!!

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