Breakfast Oaties

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 40 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
• 1/2 cup extra-light vegetable oil spread (60% with no trans fat )
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 1/4 cups bananas (ripe, mashed, about 3 medium)
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 2/3 cup whole wheat flour
• 2 -2 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups quaker quick oats (uncooked*) or 2 cups old fashioned oats (uncooked*)
• 1/2 cup banana chips, broken, dried (optional)
• 1 cup peanut butter or 1 cup smooth cashew butter or 1 cup almond butter

Recipe

• 1 heat oven to 350ºf. in large bowl, beat brown sugar and spread with electric mixer until creamy. add egg and vanilla; beat well. add bananas; beat well. add combined flours, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda and salt; mix until blended. add oats and, if desired, banana chips; mix until blended.
• 2 drop dough by heaping measuring tablespoonfuls 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheets. with narrow metal spatula, spread into 2-1/2 inch circles.
• 3 bake 10 to 12 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. remove to wire rack. cool completely. store tightly covered.
• 4 to assemble, spread 2 teaspoons peanut butter on flat side of one cookie. press second cookie over peanut butter.