Without the stand-by of cold breakfast cereal, sometimes we just need something quick and easy to hand the kids on the way out the door on an especially rushed morning. I keep a batch of these breakfast cookies in the back of my fridge for just a morning such as that (or, let’s be honest- most Thursday mornings!). They also pack really well into backpacks for hiking and lunchboxes, and are sweet enough to be served as a dessert as well.
Buy: This is the flaked coconut that I use
- ½ cup honey
- 1-1/4 cup peanutbutter
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- 1-1/2 cups flaked coconut (more if needed)
- Over medium-high heat, heat the honey to boil, and continue cooking, stirring occasionally over medium heat, for 3 minutes. Honey will be bubbling and starting to darken, but not be completely dark brown at this point. This is the firm ball stage.
- Turn off burner and add the peanutbutter and sea salt. Allow to sit for 5 minutes, or until the peanutbutter becomes more melty and stirs easily into the honey.
- Add in coconut while stirring. Add in more coconut if needed to make the mixture the consistency of cookie dough.
- Lay out parchment and, using a heaping tablespoon of the mixture, form into cookie shapes. Allow to cool to room temperature, and then store covered in the fridge.
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This sounds good! Is it adaptable to other nut butters, or seed butters? Say tahini perhaps? What about other add-ins? Chia? Flax?
It would work with almond butter and most likely sunbutter :)
How long would these cookies last in the fridge?
I’d guess 2 weeks in the fridge, a couple months in the freezer.
Hi Cara, I love your wonderful recipes and particularly your videos. Sorry to be dim, but ingredient quantities are written slightly differently in Australia and I’d just like to confirm what 1-1/2 means. Does it mean one and a half? Or does it mean between half a cup and a full cup – suggesting a rough estimate? I’m assuming the former. Thanks.
Hi Kate, it’s one cup and another half cup :)
I’m not GAPS familiar- gf oatmeal vs coconut?
GAPS is grain-free :) So you can use coconut on GAPS, but if you’d just like them to be gluten free oats work well.
Our family loves this cookie! This time I added hemp hearts. They turned out great!
I never heat honey .
When you heat honey it isn’t as healthy for you .
You never want to heat honey that’s why you want raw unprocessed honey .
It’s full of good antibiotics and bacteria when not heated once heated those r gone .
Thank you
Hi Nancy, I talked about the honey stuff here- yes, raw is best, but heating isn’t bad. https://healthhomeandhappiness.com/does-honey-become-toxic-when-heated.html