'A Bit of Everything' Cookies! (Best to date?)

These fulfil practically every desirable quality you could possible wish for in a cookie. Chewy? Check. Sweet? Check. Immensely tasty? Check. Moreish? Check. Guilt-inducing and laden with fat and sugar? Uh, hell no!



The 'A Bit of Everything' cookies are true to their name; they contain just a little bit of everything, bringing together all the best and most nutritious ingredients (featuring a few of my favourites, including cinnamon, avocado, PB, oats, among others - this is a match made in healthy heaven!) to form the ultimate tea-break snack.

The ingredients are as follows (makes 12 small cookies):

1 ripe banana (the browner the better)
1/4 avocado
2 tablespoons peanut butter
35g oats
1 tablespoon cocoa powder (I used Bournville)
2 tablespoons almond flour (original recipe suggests quinoa flour. Almond flour was just easier for me)
1 teaspoon cinnamon powder
1 tablespoon agave
1 teaspoon manuka honey

As with most of the recipes I post on here, there's not a lot to do here, so the technicality level = super easy. That's ultimately what I look for prior to baking anything, as I just can't cope with fussing in the kitchen. And these were very quick to prepare, even by my standards.

Pre-heat your oven to 350C (gas mark 4) and grease a cookie sheet with coconut oil (I lined a baking tray with foil to minimise washing-up time and optimise laziness). Mash up your avocado with the banana, add the 2T of PB and the rest of the 'wet' ingredients (agave and manuka for sweetness). Add the remaining dry ingredients (oats, almond flour/flour of choice, cinnamon) and mix well.

Spoon the mixture, dollop by dollop, onto the baking tray, and whack in the oven for 20 minutes approximately. Ideally, you should leave them to cool to harden slightly...but that didn't stop by boyfriend from munching his way through the batch! Probably the best healthy cookie recipe found and tried/tested to date*, courtesy of the Queen of Quinoa (link takes you to the original recipe, but there are plenty more on Alyssa's blog worth trying!).

*If you didn't believe me, the proof is in the lack of photos...did you notice? Haha :) PS. that poorly shot single image above doesn't do these cookies any kind of justice, so you'll just have to trust my word when I say you should deffo make these! Hey, at least I accidentally artfully arranged the 3 remaining cookies in a heart shape, riiight?