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Peanut Butter Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies

Peanut Butter Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies, a one-bowl recipe that makes healthy cookies for breakfast! Great for meal prep and on-the-go!

  • Prep15 minutes
  • Cook15 minutes
  • Total30 minutes

Published 21 Jul 2025

Peanut Butter Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies

A one-bowl recipe that makes healthy cookies for breakfast! Great for meal prep and on-the-go!

Healthy Peanut Butter Breakfast Cookies

I constantly felt agony over how I was spending my time. Every single day I beat myself up for falling short. I was exhausted, irritable, constantly in a rush, I neglected my health, and I was overwhelmed. Every night I went to bed I promised myself I would do better the next day. The next day would come, I’d look at my to-do list, want to cry, and keep running on my hamster wheel.

I literally sucked the joy out of everything because of what I put on my to-do list. I had given myself such high expectations that were impossible to meet. So of course I was going to feel like a failure.

Toward the end of the summer I just about had a panic attack. I really leaned hard into prayer and I slowly started to hear ‘simplify.’ I had fooled myself into thinking more was better, I never thought of doing less. That sounded counterproductive.

Out of desperation, I cleared my to-do list and left one thing on it. I did that one thing and had more time then I knew what to do with! I quickly discovered that focusing on one thing, and doing it well, paid off way more than starting a whole bunch of things and scrambling to finish all of them. Scaling back my to-do list turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to managing my time!

As time went on, I started adding a few things back to my day that I knew for certain I could get done. I put the things on my list that absolutely have to get done that day, like appointments, then I realistically added things from there. Doing less has proven to accomplish so much more!

Fast forward a year, and I really have a great schedule now. It took a lot of trial, error, and discipline to get here (and I hired help)! It’s okay not to get everything done in one day, it’s better that way!

These Peanut Butter Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies will help when you are in a hurry, just grab one and go! If you like these, then I think you will like Easy Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Breakfast Squares , Vegetarian Breakfast Sandwiches , Peanut Butter Brownie Baked Oatmeal , and No Bake Peanut Butter Oat Bars!

What You’ll Need

2 Overripe Bananas

1 cup Peanut Butter

1/4 cup Maple Syrup

1 1/2 tsp Vanilla

1 tsp Cinnamon

2 cups Old Fashioned Rolled Oats

1/4 cup Dates, Chopped

1/4 cup Chocolate Chips

How to Make Peanut Butter Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.

In a large bowl, mash two overripe bananas.

Add 1 cup peanut butter, 1/4 cup maple syrup, 1 1/2 tsp vanilla, 1 tsp cinnamon, and 2 cups old-fashioned rolled oats. Mix until well combined.

Fold in 1/4 cup chopped dates and 1/4 cup chocolate chips.

Scoop 1/4 cup size balls onto the prepared pan and flatten down slightly.

Bake for 15 minutes.

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Mix In’s – Mix in anything you like in place of the dates and chocolate chips. Things like chopped nuts, raisins, or dried fruit would work!

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