Eggless oatmeal cookies

Recently someone told me about exchanging bananas for eggs to make vegan cookies. So I took one of my favourite cookie recipes that I'd been trying to make a little chewier lately anyway and made a vegan version of it! 

Here are the ingredients: 

3/4 cup butter 

4/5 cup sugar 

2 bananas

1 tsp. cinnamon

1 tsp. baking soda

1 cup flour 

1 1/2 cup grated nuts 

1 cup rolled oats 

 1 cup fine oats 

3/4 cup dried prunes 

1 grated carrot 

1 cup with a mixture of sunflower seeds, raisins and sesame seeds (whatever you want to put in to add a bit of extra crunch and flavour, apple is nice too) 

And this is how I made them: 

First, mash up the bananas in a bowl, then add the sugar and the butter (at room temperature) and whisk.

Then add your dry ingredients (flour, oats, sunflower seeds, grated nuts etc)

Next, add your "juicy" ingredients, like the prunes, raisins and carrot.

When the dough is finished (mix in the baking soda and the cinnamon last), it will be soft but not as liquid as dough for cupcakes. The crucial part comes next: chill the dough for about 20-25 minutes before you bake it at 180 degrees celsius. I have discovered that this is the key to a cookie being chewy!

Bake the cookies for about 8 minutes and check them regularly. Take them out if they are slightly browned on the outside and still soft in the middle - they will harden slightly when you let them cool!

 These cookies were wonderful, exactly what I dreamed they would be! And the banana gave them a great flavour!

Love, x