Healthy No-Bake Maple Cookies Recipe {Vegan}

Published: Mar 28, 2014 · Modified: Mar 14, 2023 by Dara · This post may contain affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. · 15 Comments

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Spoil your family with these healthy no-bake cookies. Sweetened naturally with maple syrup and banana. And if you follow a vegan diet, these treats are for you, too!

These healthy no-bake cookies use one of our favorite natural sweeteners. We call it liquid gold at our house, and our stinginess roars to the forefront when our boys start liberally pouring the maple syrup over their waffles. We become highly unreasonable guardians of the sweet amber liquid.

"Pour slowly! That's enough! That's the good stuff, you know?!"

When it comes to baked (or no-bake) goods, pure maple syrup is the ideal sweetener. It's an unprocessed sweetener, it imparts a rich flavor and a little goes a long way.

If I'm going to tempt my older son and husband with any treats, there has to be some redeeming "healthy" factor. And these healthy no-bake cookies have plenty...they're full of protein-rich almond butter and almond milk, and fiber-filled oats and they're sweetened with maple syrup and a ripe, mashed banana. If you follow a vegan diet, this treat is for you, too!

The trick to getting these cookies to hold together is to boil the mixture until it thickens and reaches about 205 degrees F, which takes about 10 minutes. This also caramelizes the maple syrup, which lends a caramel taste to the cookies.

That's never a bad thing.

Other maple recipes:

Healthy Seasonal Recipes' Maple-Chipotle Flank Steak Tacos
The Spiced Blog's Maple Pecan Coconut Granola Bars

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Healthy No-Bake Maple Cookies {Vegan}

Spoil your family with these healthy no-bake cookies. Sweetened naturally with maple syrup and banana. And if you follow a vegan diet, these treats are for you, too!

3.80 from 10 votes

Ingredients

1 ripe banana mashed well
½ cup + 2 tablespoon almond milk
½ cup almond butter
¼ cup + 2 tablespoons pure maple syrup
⅛ teaspoon salt
2 ½ cups old-fashioned oats
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Instructions

In a medium saucepan, combine the mashed banana, almond milk, almond butter, maple syrup and salt. Heat over medium heat.
Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring frequently.
Cook until the mixture thickens (if using a candy thermometer, the temperature should reach about 200 degrees F), about 10 minutes.
Stir in the oats and vanilla extract.
Drop the mixture by tablespoonfuls onto a baking sheet lined with waxed or parchment paper.
Let cool to room temperature. Serve.
See Also
Snickerdoodle Blondies Recipe

Notes

Weight Watchers Points:2 (Freestyle SmartPoints), 2 (Points+)

Nutrition

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Comments

Paulette
October 11, 2020 at 1:45 pm

I was so excited to try this. Love the old chocolate peanut butter ones but since I started eating vegan I needed a healthier choice. Also live maple. But all I could taste was the banana. I felt like I wasted so many oats on this. They’re not bad but definitely not maple.
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Ashley
December 31, 2018 at 1:27 pm

These were so tasty! I wouldn’t classify these as healthy with all the sugar & carbs but I just loved the simplicity, taste, & texture.
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Sandra
December 06, 2016 at 10:11 am

Definitely follow her instruction to let the syrup thicken and reach about 205 degrees. It makes a difference for holding the cookies together. We really like the flavors in these cookies, and appreciate that they’re sweetened with maple syrup.
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Shannon
January 22, 2015 at 9:00 pm
I wouldn't say that pure maple syrup is "unprocessed." That's not exactly true. Having made maple syrup, there's quite a bit of processing that goes into boiling down 40-50 gallons of sap from a sugar maple tree (for many hours, I might add) to get a mere 1 gallon of syrup. Is it healthier than white sugar? Sure! But it still needs to be moderated as any other simple sugar. Just wanted to point out that it can't be used as freely as one wants without detriment to health. 🙂 Thanks for the recipe, though! Looks yummy!
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Erin @ Texanerin Baking
May 09, 2014 at 1:06 pm
I'm impressed that your son can only be tempted by healthier sweets! That's awesome. 🙂
And these look so, so good. I absolutely love the ingredients!
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