Chocolate cookie with banana and oats

There are many ways to represent the love and gratitude we feel for our mothers, but I’m suspicious when giving my opinion, which food is the best of them 🙂 If it’s sweet then, even better hmm…

I haven’t yet met a child who doesn’t like Cookies, they really are tasty and versatile when you feel like eating something sweet and believe me, they can be healthy.

At the request of teacher/pedagogue Janaína Alves de Novaes (Colégio Anglo), I made this recipe with the students in her class, a fun way to learn more about what we eat and also take home a treat for their beloved mothers.

The coolest thing about this Cookie recipe is that you can add grains like linseed, chia, sesame, dried fruits, candied fruits, peanut butter, grated coconut, granola instead of rolled oats.

So let’s go 😉

Ingredients:

1 cup of rolled oats
1 cup oat flour
½ teaspoon of salt
1 tablespoon butter or margarine
1 egg
2 tablespoons of 50% or 70% cocoa powder
1 Teaspoon vanilla extract
1 large ripe banana or 2 small ones
100g semi-sweet chocolate (drops or bar)

Method of preparation:

On a plate, mash the banana well with a fork and set aside. Add the egg and vanilla, beat well by hand for a while. Add the cocoa powder, beat some more. Mix a little with the spatula, add the dry ingredients and beat again until well mixed. If it’s too dry, add another mashed banana, if it’s too soft, add more oat flour, the dough should have the texture of modeling clay. Add the chopped or chopped chocolate and mix, at this point you can add chopped nuts or nuts, or grains.
Using a spoon, make small balls and place on a baking tray covered with greased parchment paper, leave in the fridge for 20 minutes. Preheat the oven to 200°, remove the baking tray from the fridge and lightly knead the balls, you can use the bottom of the glass, bake the cookies until they are golden brown, on average 20 minutes, but it may take a little longer depending on the oven.
Remove from the oven and do not touch the cookies, let them cool well, as they are still soft when they come out of the oven, they only become hard after they cool down.

Enjoy! This recipe yields an average of 25 small cookies.