20-Minute Applesauce Cookies

These satisfying sugar-free treats are so packed with dried cherries and rolled oats that they taste more like delicious granola bars. As an added bonus, you can whip them up in less than half an hour. From Shape Magazine,recipe of Tiffany Tse.

• Ready In: 30 mins
• Serves: 36
• Yields: 36 cookies

Ingredients

• 3  bananas, ripe
• 2  cups rolled oats
• 1⁄3 cup applesauce
• 1  teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1  tablespoon ground flax seeds (the program keeps putting in the word SEEDS. I didn't put that in)
• 1⁄2 cup dried cherries

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Using a fork, mash the bananas in a bowl. Stir in oats, applesauce, dried cherries, flax and vanilla extract. Mix batter well.
3. Drop by rounded spoonfuls onto a lined cookie sheet. Bake for 20 minutes.