very healthy and endless customizable possibilities!
I love the Vanishing Oatmeal Raisin cookie recipe from Quaker Oats. It’s one of the first recipes I made so many times that it became memorized. Even though these cookies have oatmeal and raisins, which makes them sound healthier than chocolate chip cookies, the Vanishing Oatmeal Raisin recipe is not so. The recipe includes butter, white sugar, and brown sugar — very processed and refined ingredients, not to mention not vegan.
I’ve developed a vegan cookie recipe that uses more natural ingredients, such as olive oil and honey instead of butter and sugar. The cookies are moist and soft, and don’t break apart as easily the previous cookie recipe I developed. These oat nut cookies are new and improved, and so adaptable!
The two pictured cookies above were made with this base recipe, but the different ingredients and add-ins make them unique. The first cookie, on the left, is a honey oatmeal raisin cookie, and the cookie on the right is a seeded hemp coconut cookie. I like them both very much, but I was especially surprised by the success of the hemp cookies! This recipe is also very forgiving, so you can adjust the amounts of each ingredient pretty easily.
Ingredients:
- 3/4 c oats
- 3/4 c flour
- 6 tbsp maple syrup/honey/coconut sugar
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 chia egg (or aquafaba!)
- 2 heaping tbsp nut butter
- 4 tbsp olive oil/coconut oil
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp oat/hemp meal (from making non-dairy milk)
Directions:
- Mix all ingredients in a bowl with a fork, until flour is completely hydrated.
- Rest in the fridge for 15 minutes.
- Shape into balls and bake at 350F for 11 minutes. Enjoy!
For the honey oatmeal raisin cookies: use honey, olive oil, oatmeal/pulp (leftover from making oat milk), almond butter, and raisins.
For the seeded hemp coconut cookies: use maple syrup, coconut oil, hemp meal, cashew butter, coconut flakes, poppy seeds, sesame seeds, and flax seeds.
