Heart Healthy Breakfast Cookies
Channel: InsideTracker
Date: 08/02/2024

Give your heart health a boost, with these delicious breakfast cookies 🍪— Packed with ingredients that can help to reduce total and LDL cholesterol levels, and reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease.

🍌Ingredients:
- ¾ cup banana, mashed (about 2-2 1/2 bananas)
- ¾ cup creamy almond butter
- ¼ cup ground flaxseed
- ⅓ cup maple syrup
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 ¼ cup rolled oats
- 1 ½ cup almond flour
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp sea salt
- ¾ cup walnuts, chopped
- 1 cup fresh blueberries
- Optional: flaked sea salt for topping
*Makes 12 cookies

📝Instructions:
1. Preheat the oven to 350°F and line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
2. In a medium bowl, add the bananas and mash until mostly smooth. Then combine with almond butter, ground flaxseed, maple syrup, and vanilla extract and stir well to incorporate.
3. In a large bowl, stir together the rolled oats, almond flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt.
4. Add the wet ingredients to the bowl of dry ingredients and mix until combined. Fold in the walnuts, followed by the blueberries.
5. Scoop 1/3 cup of batter for each cookie onto the baking sheet. Use the back of a spoon to press down gently to form a disk. You can use your fingers to touch up the shape to form a round cookie. These cookies will not spread.
6. Bake for 15-18 minutes until the cookies are slightly browned. Cool on the pan for 5 minutes and then transfer to a wire rack to finish cooling. When cookies are completely cool, they can be stored in an airtight container in the fridge or frozen.

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