Watching What I Eat: Peanut Butter Banana Oat Breakfast Cookies with Carob / Chocolate Chips

Ingredients

• bananas - 2

  2 ripe bananas, mashed until smooth & creamy

• butter flavor shortening - 1 tsp

  1 tsp butter flavor extract ** (optional)

• chocolate chips - 0.25 cup

  1/4 cup carob or chocolate chips (**optional)

• creamy peanut butter - 0.33333334 cup

  1/3 cup peanut butter - creamy or chunky

• nuts - 0.25 cup

  1/4 cup chopped nuts (peanut, walnut, or your favorite)

• oatmeal - 1.5 cups

  1 1/2 cups quick oatmeal - uncooked (or use old fashioned oats for more oatmeal texture)

• unsweetened applesauce - 0.6666667 cup

  2/3 cup unsweetened applesauce

• vanilla extract - 1 tsp

  1 tsp vanilla extract

• vanilla protein powder - 1 scoop

  1 scoop vanilla protein powder ** (can be made without, cookie will just be lower in protein)