Banana Nice Cream Oreos Recipe

We all love cookies and ice cream right?! But we often associate them with weight gain and unhealthy eating habits. We can and we should eat everything in moderation, it’s just a matter of choosing the best ingredients and making sure that, instead of just eating empty calories, we’re actually nourishing our bodies with real food. These cookies are sweet enough, but if you’re used to eating cookies that have a very high sugar content, you can add raw honey or pure maple syrup to the ice cream (one teaspoon) or to the cookie dough (one tablespoon). Reduce the amount of honey or maple syrup every time you bake the cookies, to allow your taste buds to slowly adjust.

Sugar-Free Cocoa Cookies Recipe

Prep Time: 10 min | Cook Time: 10 min | Yields: 16-20 cookies

Ingredients

+ 3/4 cup oat flour
+ 1/4 cup organic cocoa powder
+ 1/8 tsp baking soda
+ 1/8 tsp sea salt
+ 1 tbsp peanut butter
+ 1 organic egg
+ 1 cup pitted dates (approximately 15 dates)
+ 2 tbsp greek yogurt

Directions

Preheat oven to 350ºF (175ºC). Place the pitted dates, greek yogurt, egg, sea salt, and peanut butter in a blender and blend well until creamy. In a medium-size bowl combine oat flour, cocoa powder, and baking soda and stir into the creamed mixture until blended. Form small dough balls with your hands, place them onto a cookie sheet and with moistened hands, slightly flatten the dough. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes in the preheated oven and let cool for a couple of minutes on the cookie sheet before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.

Banana Nice Cream Recipe

Prep Time: freezing time + 5min | Cook Time: 0 min | Yields: 1/4 cup

Ingredients

+ 1 ripe banana
+ 1/2 tbsp peanut butter

Directions

Peel the banana and slice into 1/2 inch discs. Arrange banana slices in a single layer in a large container and freeze for 1-2 hours. Place the banana slices and the peanut butter in a blender and puree until the mixture is creamy and smooth. Serve immediately or store in the freezer for later.

To assemble the banana nice cream oreos: Add teaspoon-size blobs of ice cream to the center of one cookie. Place another cookie on top and gently press until the ice cream spreads evenly to the edge of the cookies. Continue this process until all the cocoa cookies have been sandwiched with banana nice cream. Enjoy!