Recipe: Breakfast Cookie!

This is a truly genious recipe and well renown in the blog-world. The infamous recipe is invented by lovely Gina, also know as The Fitnessista. It took me a while to give them a try, but once I did I couldn’t help but wanting one every morning for breakfast (which I did). To date, I have come up with numerous variaties of my own, which I will share here, plus the basic recipe as per Gina. Also make sure to check out the last part, where I came up with another great idea for these protein-packed cookies! And if you’re looking for more inspiration, go over to The Fitnessista for her Breakfast Cookie Dough Cereal (which I have yet tro try).

The basics (for one cookie):

* 30-40 g oats (normal, not coarse)

* 15 g protein powder

* 1 T nut butter

* 2-3 T water or milk

* optional: 1 t sweetener and/or vanilla extract

Optional ad-ins: raisins, chopped nuts, shredded coconut, chocolate chips, dried cherries.

Combine all ingredients in a medium-sized bowl and mix everything thoroughly with a spoon. The mixture should stick together a little after a while. but not be sticky. Form into a ball, flatten, and then form a nice round thick cookie (I use a spoon for all of this!). Place on a plate in the fridge, and chill overnight (or for 20 minutes in the freezer when in a hurry).

Possible variations:

Plain Vanilla Jane

* 35 g oats

* 15 g vanilla protein powder

* 1 T cashew (or other nut) butter

* 2 T soymilk

* 2 T raisins or 2 pitted and chopped dates

Chocolate-Cherry-Superstar

* 30 g oats

* 10 g chocolate protein powder

* 5-10 g cacao powder (depending on how ’dark’ you like your chocolate)

* 1 T nut butter

* 2 T soy or coconut milk

* 2 T sweetener

* 1 t vanilla extract

* 2 T dried cherries

Coconut Cookie

* 35g oats

*10g coconut protein powder

*5g vanilla protein powder

* 1 T coconut butter

* 2 T water or milk (soy or coconut)

* Optional: sweetener, vanilla, dried shredded coconut

* Optional but awesomeadd-in: banana chips

TRIPLE almond joy

*40g oats

*10g vanilla protein powder

* 1 T almond butter (any other nut butter would work though!)

* 2-3 T water or milk
* sprinkle(!) almond extract
* 4-5 chopped whole almonds

* some raisins

Chocolate Bar Cookie

* 30 g oats

* 10 g chocolate protein powder

* 5-10 g cacao powder (depending on how ’dark’ you like your chocolate)

* 1 T vegan butter

* 2-3 T soy or coconut milk

* 2 T sweetener

* 1 t vanilla extract

* 5 chopped hazelnuts

*1 T raisins

This is an amazing breakfast: its easy, its delicious and its nutritious, and for that reason infamous in blog-land! Of course, who wouldn’t like to eat a HUGE COOKIE for breakfast? It also makes for a good portable/on-the-go breakfast (just make sure you don’t carry it around for too long, since it’s a raw recipe). They pack a protein punch at around 16g protein, have complex carbs and fiber from the oatmeal, and a small amount of healthy yummy fats from the nut butter =)!

A while ago I was looking for a portable snack with a decent amount of protein and simply devided the breakfast cookie dough in half, forming two smaller cookies which make perfect healthy snacks.

Love,

Sabine

PS: Send in your breakfast cookie photo to be added to the gallery!

5 Responses to Recipe: Breakfast Cookie!

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marleen February 16, 2011

Hi,

ik gebruik geen proteinepoeder….wat is het alternatief? Bijvoorbeeld volkoren speltbloem?

thnx

- Sabine February 17, 2011
  
  Hoi Marleen, nee dat zal denk ik niet werken want het is juist de vanille (of chocola) poeder die er smaak aan geeft! En anders is het ook te eenzijdig qua voedingsstoffen met 2 graan soorten
  
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