you only need three things (I need four. keep reading to discover why!)
plus a baking sheet.
and an oven
probably in a house too. but hey, if you have an oven out in the middle of the woods and want to make these cookies, who am I to kill your dreams?
2 ripe bananas - I always have bananas in my freezer. I buy them...I don't eat them....I grew up in DO NOT WASTE environment. So I freeze those fuckers. These come in SUPER handy when I'm jonsing for something om nom nommy and don't want to *cheat.
1 cup instant oats.
1/4 cup of dark chocolate. I used 85% dark dark dark chocolate. Because I like it AND it's way less processes than any other chocolate. Dark or otherwise. Except the 95% shit. I'm not brave enough to try that though.
*ALTERNATIVE OPTION* 1 handful of dried cranberries. This ups the calorie content just a smidge. I'll post both nutriation values below so you can see the difference.
I LOVE dark chocolate and cranberry together. At first I was kind of eh on the fence about including them in a banana/oatmeal cooking - thinking two fruits would suck together. but let me tell ya, two fruits are better than one!
(I'm sure there's some offside gay joke I could make here, which would be OK you know. Cause I'm gay. Right?)
feel free to add nuts or seeds or whatever the fuck you want. I'm not your mum. I don't make the rules round here.
Pre heat yo oven yo! 350
Mash up the bananas until they are total mush. NO LUMPS! NO WIRE HANGERS!
add in the cup of oatmeal, the chocolate, the kitchen sink and a copy of Martha Stewart living.
Stir to combine
drop spoonfulls of the cookies onto a baking sheet. You can also consider greasing the sheet with a smidge of coconut oil, if your cookie sheet is major ghetto and things stick to it.
put in the oven and bake for 10-12 minutes, depending on how big of a spoonful you use.
Pro tip - don't use a fucking shovel to make one giant cookie. IT WILL NOT WORK. and then you'll blame me and then I'll have to kick you in the shins. And I don't want to kick you in the shins. because I like you. So just use a regular spoon, ok?
take them off the cookie sheet and let them cool on a plate or a cooling rack (if you're fancy as fuck and have a cooling rack)
they taste similar to banana bread but with a slightly more fluffy texture.
Because of the banana - these cookies can get a little darker the next day - so don't be surprised.
if you are surprised - see above regarding shin kicking.
I WARNED YOU!
*The term cheat is often used in reference to a day or meal or snack that you have that goes outside your regular 'diet'. Since clean eating isn't a diet for me, but a lifestyle change, I hate using this term. But because it's so easily recognized as a faulter I will continue to use it in the sense that cheating for me would be consuming sugar, or processed foods willingly in excess in order to satisfy some convaluted 'craving'. Funny part about clean eating - once you're past the initial HOLY FUCK I WANT A FUCKING PEPSI moments in the first week, you no longer crave those high sugar things. And having 1 or 2 of these cookies is just as satisfying as it would have been to actually have that pepsi.
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