Serves: 5
Total Calories: 376
Yield: About 24 Cookies

3 very ripe bananas
1/3 cup light olive oil
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups quick cooking rolled oats
1/2 cup oat bran cereal
1 1/2 cups coarsely chopped dried fruits
1/2 cup coarsely chopped walnuts

1. Place the bananas in a large mixing bowl, and mash well with a fork.

2. Place the olive oil, egg, vanilla extract, and salt in a measuring cup, and whip with a fork to mix. Stir the olive oil mixture into the mashed bananas.

3. Stir the rolled oats and oat bran into the banana mixture, mixing well. Add the dried fruit and walnuts, and combine thoroughly.

4. Coat a large cookie sheet with olive oil cooking spray, and drop generously rounded tablespoons of the dough onto the sheet, spacing the cookies about 11/2 inches apart to allow for spreading. Flatten each cookie gently with the back of a spoon.

5. Bake the cookies in a preheated 350°F oven for 18 to 20 minutes, or until the edges and bottoms of the cookies are lightly browned. Do not over bake.

6. Transfer the cookies to a wire rack or sheet of aluminum foil, and allow to cool completely before serving. These cookies crumble when hot.

Nutritional Facts:

Serves: 5
Total Calories: 376
Calories from Fat: 220

More Recipes from the The Sophisticated...Olive Cookbook:
Baking With Olive Oil
Banana-Nut Bread
Easy Devil's Food Cake
Easy Olive-Rye Bread-Machine Bread
Grandma's Raisin-Bran Muffins
Happy Healthy Brownies
Old-Fashioned Olive Bread
Sugarless and Flourless Fruit and Nut Cookies