Best Sugar Free Oatmeal Cookies With Peanut Butter
This sugar-free oatmeal cookies recipe is sweet from the mashed bananas and chocolate chips with a soft texture. The sugar intake has been reduced in these classic oatmeal cookies, highlighting the natural flavor of the bananas. Only 5 ingredients!
Ingredients
- 2 large overripe bananas, mashed
- ⅓ cup peanut butter, creamy
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ¾ cup old-fashioned rolled oats
- ¼ cup sugar free chocolate chips, or cacao nibs
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- In a large bowl add mashed bananas, peanut butter, vanilla, and oats. Mix well with an electric mixer, stand mixer, hand mixer, or food processor on low speed until combined.
- Fold in chocolate chips.
- Prepare a small bowl with warm water. Dip your hands in water and shape 15 balls, about the (size of a walnut).
- Line a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Spread the cookie balls in a single layer on the cookie sheet leaving about 1 ½ inches in between each cookie dough ball. Gently press down the cookies to flatten them and shape (these cookies won't spread as much during baking).
- Bake for 10-12 minutes. Remove and allow the cookies to cool on a cooling rack.
- Store in an airtight container refrigerated for up to 5 days. Let it come to room temperature before eating. You can also freeze these for up to 3 months. Defrost in the fridge overnight and let it come to room temperature.
Notes
- I wet my hands before rolling the cookie dough, which helps to prevent the dough from sticking to my hands.
- Don’t leave these cookies out for long at room temperature, as they have bananas in the cookie dough. To reduce the sticky texture, you could also chill the cookie dough before rolling it.
- For a more healthy cookie leave the chocolate chips out.
- You can easily double the ingredients to make an extra batch of oatmeal cookies and store them in the freezer to enjoy whenever you like.
- These cookies will become firmer as they cool. I like to warm up the cookies in the microwave or low temp warm oven, just to make them softer.
- These cookies should be stored at room temperature in an airtight for up to a week. You can even freeze the cookies for a couple of months.
- Why are my sugar-free cookies not soft and chewy?
These cookies are not meant to be chewy because they contain 0 refined sugar which is the ingredient that makes the cookies chewy during baking.
Nutrition
Calories: 99kcalCarbohydrates: 13gProtein: 3gFat: 5gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gSodium: 2mgPotassium: 123mgFiber: 2gSugar: 3gVitamin A: 10IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 9mgIron: 1mg
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