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Almond Butter Breakfast Cookies

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Betty Crocker Kitchens
Updated Oct 7, 2012
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Cookies for breakfast? When they’re full of good-for-you ingredients, it makes delicious sense. These sweet treats are all cookie, but made with oats, almond butter, flax and whole wheat flour.

Almond Butter Breakfast Cookies

  • Prep Time 15 min
  • Total 50 min
  • Servings 42
  • Ingredients 14
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Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
  • 1/4 cup unsalted almond butter
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 egg
  • 3/4 cup Gold Medal™ white whole wheat flour or whole wheat flour
  • 2 tablespoons ground flax seed
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 1 1/4 cups old-fashioned oats
  • 3/4 cup dried cranberries, dried cherries or dried blueberries
  • 3/4 cup chopped toasted almonds

Instructions

  • Step 
    1
    Heat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, beat brown sugar, butter, almond butter, vanilla and egg with electric mixer on medium speed until creamy. Stir in flour, flax seed, baking soda, sea salt, cinnamon and ginger until well blended. Stir in oats, cranberries and almonds.
  • Step 
    2
    On ungreased cookie sheets, drop dough by level measuring tablespoonfuls about 2 inches apart.
  • Step 
    3
    Bake 7 to 10 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Cool 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheets to cooling rack. Cool completely. Store tightly covered.

Nutrition

80 Calories
4 1/2g Total Fat
1g Protein
8g Total Carbohydrate
4g Sugars

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 1 Cookie
Calories
80
Calories from Fat
40
Total Fat
4 1/2g
7%
Saturated Fat
1 1/2g
8%
Trans Fat
0g
Cholesterol
10mg
3%
Sodium
65mg
3%
Potassium
45mg
1%
Total Carbohydrate
8g
3%
Dietary Fiber
1g
5%
Sugars
4g
Protein
1g
% Daily Value*:
Vitamin A
0%
0%
Vitamin C
0%
0%
Calcium
0%
0%
Iron
2%
2%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 Fat;
Carbohydrate Choice
1/2
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

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