Healthy Halloween Cookies [No One Will Know!]
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Healthy Halloween Cookies [No One Will Know!]
Description
The recipe combines chickpeas, ripe bananas, peanut butter, applesauce, rolled oats, baby spinach, and baking powder into a smooth batter using a food processor. The mixture shapes into small disc-shaped cookies that maintain their form during baking at 350°F. The use of banana and maple syrup provides gentle sweetness without refined sugar. The spinach adds color and nutrients subtly without overpowering flavor.
Baking creates cookies that are moist and dense with a slight chew from oats. Pressing candy eyes or chocolate chips embeds festive decorations, and shaping mouths with a toothpick adds personality. These treats offer a balance of texture and natural ingredients, suitable for gatherings where nutrition is a concern.
Relying on very ripe, spotted bananas maximizes sweetness and reduces need for added sugars. Adding decorations immediately after baking while cookies are warm ensures they stay in place. This also allows creative expressions in the soft dough, such as various mouth shapes. These cookies can be made fun and appealing even with mostly whole-food ingredients.
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups chickpeas cooked or canned
- 2 medium banana weighing 230 grams with peels on, ripe
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- ½ cup peanut butter homemade or store bought (or sub soy butter for nut free)
- 2 tablespoons applesauce unsweetened
- 1 cup rolled oats gluten free if preferred
- 3 large baby spinach handfuls
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
Optional
- chocolate chips or candy eyes
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350℉/176℃ and line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Add everything EXCEPT the optional ingredients to your food processor and process until smooth.
- Use a small cookie scoop to scoop the batter onto your baking sheets. You'll get about 26 cookies. Then with slightly wet hands or the back of a spoon press the cookies down and shape them into circles. The batter won't spread much, so shape them before baking.
- OPTIONAL: If using chocolate chips for eyes, add those to your cookies now. If using candy eyes, add them AFTER baking.
- Bake for 16-18 minutes, then remove the cookies from the oven and gently press the candy eyes (if using) into your cookies while they are still warm. To make mouths, use a toothpick or the end of a spoon or fork to glide different mouth shapes into each of your spooky cookies. Then let them cool.
Notes
- Use very ripe, spotted bananas to ensure natural sweetness in the cookies.
- Add candy eyes immediately after baking, while cookies are still warm, to secure them in place.
- Create expressive mouth shapes in warm cookies using a toothpick or utensil tip for festive decoration.
Nutrition Information
Show DetailsNutrition Facts
Serving: 26Cookies
Amount Per Serving
Calories 74 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 74cal | 4% |
| Carbohydrates | 10g | 3% |
| Protein | 2g | 4% |
| Fat | 3g | 5% |
| Sodium | 39mg | 2% |
| Potassium | 108mg | 2% |
| Fiber | 2g | 8% |
| Sugar | 4g | 8% |
| Vitamin A | 20IU | 0% |
| Vitamin C | 1mg | 1% |
| Calcium | 22mg | 2% |
| Iron | 1mg | 6% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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