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Breakfast Cookies

Molasses-Peanut Butter Breakfast Cookies

A hearty, healthy-ier cookie with peanuts, almonds, and flaxseed meal that you could eat for breakfast.

Course Breakfast, Breakfast or Snack, Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword almonds, cookies, flaxseed meal, molasses, peanut butter
Prep Time 25 minutes
Cook Time 12 minutes
Total Time 37 minutes
Servings 12

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup butter (1 stick)
  • 1/2 cup molasses
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
  • 1/2 cup all-natural peanut butter (chunky is OK)
  • 1 egg
  • 1 cup whole wheat flour
  • 1/2 cup oat flour
  • 1/2 cup almond meal
  • 1/4 cup flaxseed meal
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp ground ginger
  • 1/2 tsp ground cloves
  • 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
  • sugar for sprinkling on top, if desired

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a medium bowl, use a mixer to cream butter. Add molasses, brown sugar, peanut butter, and egg, and beat until smooth.

  2. In a separate bowl, combine the dry ingredients and stir until mixed. Add dry ingredient mixture, 1/3 at a time, into butter mixture and stir until ingredients are evenly mixed.

  3. Scoop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto cookie sheets. Bake for 10-12 minutes, or until the cookies have spread out and are dark golden brown. Sprinkle granulated sugar on top if desired. Makes 2 dozen cookies.