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Chocolate & Roasted Banana Snack Cookies

Makes 16 two-bite cookies

Ingredients

  • 2 ripe bananas
  • ½ C. cooked and cooled quinoa
  • ¼ C. creamy sunflower seed butter
  • ¼ C. maple syrup
  • 2 t. chia or flax meal
  • 2 T. buckwheat flour
  • 2 t. tapioca starch
  • ¼ C. Enjoy Life Foods Mini Chips 

 

Instructions

  1. Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper. Set aside.
  2. Preheat the oven to 400°. Place the bananas, in their skin, on a baking sheet and roast for 20 minutes or until softened. Remove, cool and smash the bananas discarding the skin.
  3. Add the roasted bananas and all the other ingredients into a medium bowl and mix together with a fork until well blended.
  4. Turn the oven down to 350 and scoop out the dough into 16 cookies, using damp fingers to form into a cookie shape.
  5. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes. Cool and store in the refrigerator for 4-5 days.