Just four simple ingredients and “bam!”–you’ve got cookies!  Coconut and banana need no other sweetener, so these flourless cookies are impossibly healthy too!
When I want to make cookies both delicious and healthy, I usually turn to sweet potatoes.  My Cocoa Nut Breakfast Cookies and Healthier Samoa Coconut Cookies are proof of this trend.  But sometimes I would rather skip shredding or cooking sweet potatoes.  That led me to try a 2-ingredient cookie recipe that seemed too good to be true.  Still, to have fresh cookies the easy way seemed worth a try.

Not being one to leave well enough alone, however, I spiced the cookies up a bit.  Turmeric tastes wonderful with banana and coconut, as one sip of a Soothing Spiced Smoothie with Turmeric will confirm.  So I added a similar blend of turmeric and cinnamon to these cookies and was thrilled with how they turned out.  Not only did these get a healthy boost of anti-inflammatory spices, the cookies gained a beautiful golden hue.  And they were among the quickest and easiest cookies I have ever made!

A few of the cookies became five-ingredient cookies because I thought it would be fun to top them with pepitas (raw pumpkin seeds).  Pretty like a daisy, aren’t they?  Another bonus to this vegan recipe is that you can eat the dough without worry.  It is egg-free and is essentially a baked variation of Instant Banana Coconut Grain-Free “Oatmeal.”  And of course you need to taste the dough as you go, to make sure you get the spices exactly how you like them.

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