I made these on Saturday night, and they lasted until Monday morning. I’m pretty sure it was an even playing field between Dallas and I, and we even “fought” over the last six. He gave me fair warning they’d be gone by the time I got home from work, so I hid 3 of them. Which I devoured as soon as I got home. Now I’m sad ‘cuz they’re gone. Cue sad face.
Another almond pulp recipe, as a result of making my own almond mylk, I guarantee these delicious treats will have you weak in the knees. Like I said, we each ate half a pan in two and a half days. That’s a lotta cookie love. Again, if you don’t have almond pulp, feel free to sub almond meal or ground oats. Though you may have to add a wee bit more liquid to your batter.
This is unfortunately a short post, but…homework calls my name 
Especially my surprise assignments. haaaaa…
I digress. Enjoy, foodies! From my kitchen to yours <3
UPDATE MARCH 21, 2012: Wanna make these with low fat & low sugar? CLICK HERE!
| Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bars |
- 1/2 cup vegan butter
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 1/2 large ripe bananas, peeled and mashed
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup almond mylk
- 1 1/4 cup almond pulp {from 2 batches almond mylk}
- 3/4 cup rolled oats
- 1/2 cup garbanzo flour
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp xantham gum
- 1/2 cup dark chocolate chips
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream together vegan butter and brown sugar. Add in mashed bananas and vanilla extract, beating until smooth. Lastly, mix in the almond mylk. Set aside.
- In a separate mixing bowl, combine all remaining ingredients {except chocolate chips} and stir to combine. Stir well.
- Add dry ingredients to wet and mix well with a spatula. When ingredients are fully incorporated, fold in the chocolate chips.
- Spread batter evenly into a 9×9 baking pan, and bake in preheated oven for 30-35 minutes.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool 10 minutes {yeah, right}.
- Cut into squares, and lift gently from pan with a spatula. These are *very* delicate!
- Stuff your face with cookie dough <3
P.S. In honour of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, I have a YouTube video coming for you tomorrow. So keep your eyes peeled ;) I’ll post it to Twitter and Facebook. *EDIT* Video did not work out. You can read about that here.
P.P.S. Check out the new recipe category tab at the top of the page! It’s now easier for you to search recipe categories! yippee!!
peace, love, food <3
Char, xo
Mmm…these do look good! Good luck with your homework, this is the busiest week of the semester for me, I can totally relate!
same! Tons of assignments & midterms due before reading week. Good luck! My concentration today has been nil…lol.
Oh wow…sometimes I have to be very tough with myself and just not let myself bake goodies like this because i know I’ll just inhale them. Haha, who said anything about self-discipline? None here!
haha oh gosh, I’m the same! part of it is that I know Dallas will eat them all if I take my time, so it ends up being a war of the forks
lol
I see I have made the mistake of dropping by here right before lunch… I am starving, and these of course look delicious. Cookie dough bars? Hell yes.
hahaha I hate when that happens right before lunch! I can’t check blogs when I’m super hungry, it’s torture. And I’m all about the cookie dough ;)
Anything with the words “cookie dough” in it sounds great to me!!
I could quite happily live off of cookie dough <3 haha
Woah. This recipe is phenomenal! Saving these to make for the weekend!
awesome! hope you enjoy them, Tessa!
I second Anna, I would inhale these!! Cookie dough, banana and chocolate sounds incredible!
hehe thank you! I totally did inhale them…oops
Ooooo my goodness…I love anything chocolate chip!! ANYTHING!! These look amazing my love!
xxoo
thanks, doll! I hope you had an amazing birthday!! xoxo
Yum, yum, yum! These look really good. I can see why you two were fighting over them. I can’t wait for you to share your video
hehe, a worthy ‘fight’ indeed! ;) I didn’t get the video finished like I planned, so I’m posting for Friday!
Oh you and your TEMPTING recipes Char! These looks so good!! Love that you’re taking care of that almond pulp as well!
Thank you, Malin! No almond pulp being composted around here. Would much rather turn it into cookie dough
Loveeeeeee!! What a great recipe. I’m a HUGE fan of banana and chocolate chips. This is totally up my alley!
Thank you!! Bananas & chocolate are definitely two of my favourite foods
and the bananas make these squares so soft. love <3
Bananas, oats and chocolate simply belong together!! This looks awesome!! I’ll try this after my next batch of almond milk!
totally agree about them belonging together! let me know what you think if you decide to give them a try!
Oh my gosh! Looks delicious, as usual! I nominated you for a Versatile Blogger Award, because your recipes are so varied but always amazing! You can find the nomination here:
http://ladolcevitavegan.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/honoured-and-the-new-direction-of-the-blog/
Have a great weekend, Char!!
You’re such a doll, Jillian! Thank you! <3
This is perfect. I have a bunch of bananas and oats to use up! They look amazing, Char!
Thank you, Sophia! I think I’m baking another pan this weekend, too! haha
I love bananas and choc chips and oatmeal! perfect perfect bar!
thank you! I can’t stop baking them, they’re so good!