Spoil your family with these healthy no-bake cookies. Sweetened naturally with maple syrup and banana. And if you follow a vegan diet, these treats are for you, too!
These healthy no-bake cookies use one of our favorite natural sweeteners. We call it liquid gold at our house, and our stinginess roars to the forefront when our boys start liberally pouring the maple syrup over their waffles. We become highly unreasonable guardians of the sweet amber liquid.
“Pour slowly! That’s enough! That’s the good stuff, you know?!”
When it comes to baked (or no-bake) goods, pure maple syrup is the ideal sweetener. It’s an unprocessed sweetener, it imparts a rich flavor and a little goes a long way.
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If I’m going to tempt my older son and husband with any treats, there has to be some redeeming “healthy” factor. And these healthy no-bake cookies have plenty…they’re full of protein-rich almond butter and almond milk, and fiber-filled oats and they’re sweetened with maple syrup and a ripe, mashed banana. If you follow a vegan diet, this treat is for you, too!
The trick to getting these cookies to hold together is to boil the mixture until it thickens and reaches about 205 degrees F, which takes about 10 minutes. This also caramelizes the maple syrup, which lends a caramel taste to the cookies.
That’s never a bad thing.
I made these healthy no-bake cookies as part of a maple link-up hosted by Katie of Healthy Seasonal Recipes. If you’ve never checked out Katie’s blog, I suggest you hurry over there. It’s filled with healthy and fresh recipes, all topped off with gorgeous photographs.
Check out these fantastic maple recipes from the link-up party:
Healthy Seasonal Recipes’ Maple-Chipotle Flank Steak Tacos
Yankee Kitchen Ninja’s Boozy Maple Bacon Jam
The Spiced Blog’s Maple Pecan Coconut Granola Bars
Bakeaholic Mama’s Maple Custard Ice Cream Sandwiches
If you make this recipe, I’d love to see it on Instagram! Just use the hashtag #COOKINCANUCK and I’ll be sure to find it.
Healthy No-Bake Maple Cookies {Vegan}
Spoil your family with these healthy no-bake cookies. Sweetened naturally with maple syrup and banana, these treats are vegan, too.
Ingredients
- 1 ripe banana, mashed well
- 1/2 cup + 2 tbsp almond milk
- 1/2 cup almond butter
- 1/4 cup + 2 tbsp pure maple syrup
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 2 1/2 cups old-fashioned oats
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
Directions
- In a medium saucepan, combine the mashed banana, almond milk, almond butter, maple syrup and salt. Heat over medium heat.
- Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring frequently.
- Cook until the mixture thickens (if using a candy thermometer, the temperature should reach about 200 degrees F), about 10 minutes.
- Stir in the oats and vanilla extract.
- Drop the mixture by tablespoonfuls onto a baking sheet lined with waxed or parchment paper.
- Let cool to room temperature. Serve.
Recipe Notes
Other healthy cookie recipes:
Cookin’ Canuck’s Whole Wheat Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
Cookin’ Canuck’s No-Bake Carrot Cake Granola Bites {Low Sugar & Gluten-Free}
Yankee Kitchen Ninja (Julianne) says
Healthy AND no-bake? Well, I don’t mind if I do! These sound like the perfect treat to satisfy my afternoon cookie cravings. Thanks!
David @ Spiced says
These look absolutely delicious! I seriously wish I could just grab them off of my screen. I love the fact that they’re healthy, too…afternoon snack, here I come!!
Jenny Flake says
What a great looking cookie! Will definitely be trying these with the boys!
Amanda says
A perfect snack! Healthy and no-bake is a great combo 🙂
Norma | Allspice and Nutmeg says
Oh wow, I would definitely make these.
Ari @ Ari's Menu says
Loving the banana/almond butter/maple syrup combo–they all go so perfectly together!
cheri says
These look and sound delicious, love that they are only 60 calories.
Courtney @ Neighborfood says
I absolutely love these Dara. Maple and banana is one of my favorite combos. I definitely need to keep these around for those days I’m craving a sweet snack.
becky says
These are on my list to make!! I love no bakes but actually would prefer maple to chocolate any day! Perfect recipe for me!!
Cathy Cicek says
They look delicious. Do you think that using regular milk and peanut butter would work? Thanks 🙂
Erin @ Texanerin Baking says
I’m impressed that your son can only be tempted by healthier sweets! That’s awesome. 🙂
And these look so, so good. I absolutely love the ingredients!
Shannon says
I wouldn’t say that pure maple syrup is “unprocessed.” That’s not exactly true. Having made maple syrup, there’s quite a bit of processing that goes into boiling down 40-50 gallons of sap from a sugar maple tree (for many hours, I might add) to get a mere 1 gallon of syrup. Is it healthier than white sugar? Sure! But it still needs to be moderated as any other simple sugar. Just wanted to point out that it can’t be used as freely as one wants without detriment to health. 🙂 Thanks for the recipe, though! Looks yummy!
Sandra says
Definitely follow her instruction to let the syrup thicken and reach about 205 degrees. It makes a difference for holding the cookies together. We really like the flavors in these cookies, and appreciate that they’re sweetened with maple syrup.