A Pretty Healthy Banana Coconut Choc Cookie

I was left in a bit of a panic this week about what to make for Aikido last night. I managed to have two baking disasters in quick succession and was left on Monday evening with no cakes prepared. (Those disaster stories will be saved for another day)

There's only been one or two weeks where I have turned up with no cakes, my head hung in shame. That's twice over the course of about 8 months as I think I started this whole baking for post-training frenzy back in September or October. So that's too bad a record but I just feel like I let everyone down now if I turn up empty-handed!

My baking disasters had left me with no sugar and no butter to use, but luckily, I happened to have the ingredients for these soft banana coconut choc cookies. They only takes about 10-15 minutes to prepare and 15 minutes to bake (for normal people that is - add in the time I usually waste faffing around and the actual time is at least 2 or 3 times that). And another plus? These are pretty healthy! So I suggest you use this as your fail-safe recipe for when Baking Goes Wrong...

This makes 25 decent sized cookies. I could only find milk chocolate but dark chocolate is better for baking with and healthier too.

Pretty Healthy Banana Coconut Choc Cookies

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Makes about 25:

350g bananas (about 3-4)
200g ground almonds
170g dark chocolate, broken into tiny chunks
150g porridge oats
100g dessicated coconut
50ml olive oil
1 tsp baking powder
Half tsp cinnamon
Bit of salt

1) Mash up bananas with oil and vanilla.
2) In another bowl, mix the oats with the almonds, coconut, baking powder, cinnamon and salt.
3) Carefully stir in the banana mixture, then fold in the chocolate.
4) Create round shapes and place on a lined baking tray, a small distance apart (they won't spread much).
5) Bake at 180 degrees C for about 15 minutes.

Make extra, cos these will go REALLY quickly!

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