Hi everyone -- Just wanted to share an awesome recipe with you guys for breakfast cookies!

My friend posted it on Facebook, and they looked and sounded delicious, so I made a go at it!

Here's the recipe:

INGREDIENTS
1 1/2 cups uncooked oatmeal, quick or old fashioned
2 ripe bananas, mashed
1 cup unsweetened applesauce
1/3 cup raisins, (or any dried/non-dried fruit)
1/4 cup chopped walnuts, (any kind you prefer, you don't need them)
1 tsp vanilla extract (or almond)
1 tsp cinnamon (or more, to taste)

DIRECTIONS
Preheat heat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix vanilla extract & cinnamon into the applesauce.
Blend applesauce mixture with all other ingredients & let sit for 10 minutes
Drop cookie dough, by spoonfuls, onto a parchment paper lined cookie sheet & flatten cookies into rounds.
Bake approx. 30-35 minutes, or until golden & done.
Remove from oven & let rest on cookie sheet for 5 minutes, then move to cooling rack.
Store in a covered container when completely cool.

I didn't have any bananas, but still wanted to try them out, so I Googled banana substitutes and found out that you can use pumpkin instead, so I decided to try it out!

So, here's the recipe I used (changes are italicized for easy recognition):

INGREDIENTS
1 1/2 cups uncooked oatmeal, quick or old fashioned
3/4 cup pumpkin puree
1 cup unsweetened applesauce
1/3 cup raisins, (or any dried/non-dried fruit) Craisins (dried cranberries)
1/4 cup chopped walnuts, (any kind you prefer, you don't need them) No nuts
1 tsp vanilla extract (or almond)
1 tsp cinnamon (or more, to taste)

DIRECTIONS
I followed the recipe directions, just substituting the pumpkin for banana.

Here's how they turned out: