Description
Finally an actually healthy cookie that won’t leave you with a sugar crash. Since they’re also gluten free and dairy free, there’s few you can’t make happy with these delightful little after-school cookies.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 cup old fashioned oats (130 g)
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 cup cashew butter (256 g)
- 1/2 cup date paste (140 g)
- 4 tablespoons unrefined coconut oil (60 mL), at room temperature
- 1 large egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract or paste
- 24 flat chocolate non-pareils or 1/3 cup of dark chocolate chips (60 g)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375. Set the racks in the oven in the upper and lower third.
- Line two sheet trays with parchment paper.
- Grind oats in a small coffee grinder into a fine powder. Don’t overload your grinder–grind about 1/3 cup at a time for the best results.
- Mix the oats with the baking soda and salt in a small bowl.
- Mix cashew butter, date paste, and coconut oil with a stand or hand mixer until smooth. Add in the egg and vanilla until just incorporated.
- Pour in the ground oats and stir to combine into a soft dough.
- Use a cookie scoop to portion out 12 cookies per tray.
- Bake the cookies for 6 minutes, then rotate the trays 180 degrees, and switch them from top to bottom.
- Bake for an additional 6 minutes.
- Quickly pull the cookies out of the oven and press a non-pareil in the center of each cookie.
- Place the trays back in the oven for 1 more minute.
- Cool the cookies on a wire rack, then store in an airtight container for up to 1 week.
Notes
- No refined sugar: For a completely no added sugar cookie, skip the chocolate, though why would you want to?!
- Do you need non-pareils? The chocolate non-pareils are fun, but if you can’t find them, just use 1/3 cup of chocolate chips. If using chocolate chips, press about 5 into the top of each cookie BEFORE baking.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Additional Time: 0 hours
- Cook Time: 13 minutes
- Category: Healthier Baking
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 136
- Sugar: 4
- Sodium: 45
- Fat: 8
- Saturated Fat: 3
- Carbohydrates: 12
- Fiber: 1
- Protein: 3
- Cholesterol: 7