{Almost} Sugar free cookies

So I mentioned in a menu post about our fun little sugar cleanse.  We are 12 days in and doing very well!  We both have actually lost weight from it in this small amount of time, and my cravings have subsided quite a bit.  We have had a little treat here or there, but they were very, very (pitifully) small. 

Today I stumbled upon a sugarless cookie recipe on pinterest and decided I wanted to try it.  Not only is there not table sugar, there is no artificial sweetner, or natural sweetner like honey or agave.  There is sugar in the chocolate chips however, but a little dark chocolate is actually supposed to be good for you right??

Here is Kat in the Kitch's recipe that inspired me.  I made some modifications of my own however.  I didn't put any oil in it and instead used unsweetened applesauce.  I also put less chocolate chips, and used regular flour instead of almond flour cause I didn't have any on hand and I was NOT about to spend $10 on a bag of almond flour no matter how healthy it is.

Here's My Version
1.5 cups of mashed bananas (about 3 bananas)
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 cup of unsweetened applesauce
2 cups of rolled oats
2/3 cup of flour (you could use wheat flour to beef up the fiber)
1/3 cup finely shredded coconut (unsweetened)   ** Rosauers bulk bins!
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp of fine grain sea salt
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Mix the mashed bananas, vanilla, and applesauce together until fully incorporated.

In a Seperate bowl mix together the oats, flour, coconut, cinnamon, salt and baking powder.

Add the dry mix to the wet mixture of bananas.

Stir in the chocolate chips.

The consistency is more chunky than your typical cookie dough, but the ingredients should still stick together. 

Use small cookie scoop (about 2.5 Tbls) and put them on a lightly greased cookie sheet.  The cookies do not spread so you can place them pretty close together.  I got 41 small cookies out of my batch.

If you HATE bananas I would not recommend you make this, but I typically do not like banana flavored things and I still really liked these cookies.  It's isn't super overwhelming banana flavor, but you can definately taste it. 

If you are a Weight Watchers person each cookie is 1 point. 
This recipe could easily be gluten free if you swapped GF oats and almond flour
It also is vegan minus the milk in the chocolate chips so if you bought vegan chips Bam. It's vegan.