I love those oatmeal cookies because they are:
Super easy to make Whole food plant-based Gluten-Free Oil-free Refined sugar free The Ingredients
Needless to say, those oatmeal cookies are whole food plant-based and therefore use no refined ingredients like brown sugar, maple syrup, coconut oil or vegan butter. Furthermore, you won’t find even oat flour in my healthy cookies.
This is all you need to make my vegan oatmeal chocolate chip cookies!
Instead, this recipe uses organic gluten-free rolled oats. You definitely don’t need to opt for gluten-free variety, should you not have issues with gluten.
Both, the moisture and sweetness are provided by mashed bananas and organic additive-free peanut butter. The latter is also responsible for heartiness that usually is attributed to added oils.
Finally, the chocolate chip version of those oatmeal cookies evidently contains chopped dark vegan chocolate.
For the other two varieties I decided to add raisins/goji berries and desiccated coconut chips. By the way, I ground shredded coconut myself in spice grinder.
Vegan Oatmeal Cookies 3 Ways
I gathered that this simple recipe needed to be stretched out a bit and therefore created 3 delicious versions.
Vegan chocolate chip oatmeal cookies were my first delicious try of this recipe. As you might guess, I simply added chopped dark chocolate to the main ingredients (rolled oats, banana and peanut butter). My 10-year-old was so excited that he wanted me to make those cookies every day from this moment on.
Raisin/goji berry and coconut oatmeal cookie doughs.
Next came vegan oatmeal raisin cookies with goji berries. I must admit I love this version as much as the chocolate chip one. It’s as easy as mixing a small handful of both raisins and goji berries into the base batter. Of course, you might go for other preferred dried fruits and berries as well.
Finally, I wanted to try vegan oatmeal cookies with a touch of coconut. To achieve that, I folded a few tablespoons of ground desiccated coconut into the cookie dough. Incidentally, should you not have coconut chips at hand, it’s quite easy to grind larger coconut flakes yourself in a spice grinder.
Why not sprinkle some extra chocolate on top!
Watch the below video for all three versions of my vegan oatmeal cookies:
To sum it up, I love those oatmeal cookies because they are:
Super easy to make Whole food plant-based Gluten-Free Oil-free Refined sugar free So delicious when dipped into plant milk!
Definitely let me know if you try my oatmeal cookies (any version of them) and feel free to shoot your questions! You’re welcome to do so in the comment section below!
Print Vegan Oatmeal Cookies Author: Nele Liivlaid Prep Time: 15 minutes Cook Time: 20 minutes Total Time: 65 minutes Yield: 8 cookies Print Recipe Pin Recipe Description
You only need a bowl, fork, plate and spatula to make those healthy cookies.
Chill time: 30 minutes
Ingredients 2 cups (162g, 5.7oz) rolled oats 2 medium bananas (about 123g, 4.3oz á with peel) ½ tsp. Himalayan salt 2/5 cup (100g, 3.5oz) additive-free peanut butter 4 pieces (20g, 0.7oz) of dark chocolate (at least 70%) or cacao mass/liqueur (for Plantricious version), chopped Instructions First, make sure your peanut butter is at room temperature. If not, measure 100 grams and leave it out on kitchen counter. Start by pouring 2 cups of rolled oats into a large bowl. Next, take a large plate, peel the bananas and mash them with fork until they’re nicely pureed. Now mix peanut butter and Himalayan salt with pureed bananas (using a fork). Alternatively, use regular or immersion blender to process peeled bananas, peanut butter and salt into a smooth puree. Transfer the wet ingredients onto rolled oats. Mix with a spatula or with your hands until everything is well incorporated. Then, fold in the chopped dark chocolate or cacao mass. Stick the batter into fridge for 30 minutes. When the dough has cooled, form 8 cookies by measuring about 50g (1.8oz) of batter for each cookie (about 2 heaping tablespoons of dough). Then from a dough ball, press it down with your hand and shape it into a circle. Transfer the cookies onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake the cookies at 175C (350F) for 20 minutes until golden brown. Let cool.
Raisin/goji berry cookies: add 1 tbsp. each of raisins and goji berries.
Coconut cookies: add 2 tbsps. desiccated coconut chips.
Notes
Use gluten-free rolled oats for gluten-free cookies.
Make sure you indeed have medium bananas or even a bit larger. Otherwise your cookies might be too dry. In fact, if you prefer moister and/or sweeter result, I’d advise opting for larger ones with a weight of about 136g (4.8oz) with peel.
Should you be allergic to peanut butter or choose to avoid it for other reasons, use additive-free almond butter instead.
Storage: on kitchen counter in a container with loose lid for a couple of days, in fridge for 4 days and in freezer for longer keeping.
Watch tutorial video to see two other delicious versions of those oatmeal cookies: raisins/goji berries and desiccated coconut.
Should you follow a low-glycemic diet, it’s useful for you to know that one cookie contains 9.7 glycemic load points.
Nutritional data (1 raisin/goji cookie): 181 kcal, 20.4g carbohydrates (45% of kcal), 7.8g fats (39% of kcal), 5.9g protein (13% of kcal), 3.5g fibre, 146.3mg sodium.
Nutritional data (1 coconut cookie): 185.5 kcal, 18g carbohydrates (39% of kcal), 9.4g fats (45.6% of kcal), 5.8g protein (12.5% of kcal), 3.6g fibre, 142.5mg sodium.
Method: Oven Nutrition Serving Size: 1 chocolate chip cookie Calories: 185 Sodium: 142.5mg Fat: 9g Carbohydrates: 18g Fiber: 3.5g Protein: 6g
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