Super Chocolate Chip Cookies with Flax, Hemp, and Whole Grain

This is whole grain, protein and omega-3 rich cookies! Our 12- and 9-year-old sons love these! Since there are no nuts contained, they bring them to school for after-school snack!

• Preparation Time: 25 mins
• Cooking Time: 8 mins
• Total Time: 33 mins
• Calories: 128 Calories

Ingredients

• ½ cup butter, softened
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• ⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• ⅓ cup brown sugar
• ⅓ cup whole wheat flour
• 1 ½ cups quick-cooking oats
• ½ cup ground flax seeds
• ½ cup hemp seeds
• ¼ cup blue agave nectar
• 2 over-ripe bananas, mashed

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).

Step 2

Combine oats, flax seeds, hemp seeds, whole wheat flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and cinnamon in a bowl. Mix bananas, butter, brown sugar, agave nectar, egg, and vanilla extract together in a separate bowl; stir into oats mixture until batter is just mixed. Fold chocolate chips into batter. Drop batter by the spoonful onto a baking sheet.

Step 3

Bake in the preheated oven until edges of cookies are beginning to crisp, 8 to 10 minutes.