Out of This World Oatmeal Cookies

Have you ever been to Starbucks? Of course you have. You don't live under a rock. So they have these  "Outrageous Oatmeal" cookies that are to die for... I'm serious guys, I think the first time I had one I levitated a little bit. This was all before I was vegan... I wanted so badly to find the recipe and lo and behold they had it on their website. But get this... One cookie had like 650 calories!!!!!! That's like half a day of calories... In ONE stinking cookie.

So I decided to get a little crazy and make my own recipe. Over the years I have tweaked it and this is by far my favorite version of this cookie.

Also, you should know that before I made these, there were two things I HATED in my cookies... Raisins and Oatmeal. Guess what these contain. BOTH! Get excited. I sure am.

Ingredients:
1 cup natural, unsweetened applesauce
1/4 cup flax seed meal
1 Tbl maple syrup
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ginger
2 cups oatmeal
1/4 garbanzo bean flour (or any other gfree flour)
1/4 cup flax seed meal
1/4 cup craisins
1/4 cup raisins
1/4 cup yellow raisins
(extra raisins to top cookies)


Process: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper. Mix wet ingredients until smooth. Add dry ingredients. Scoop out by the tablespoonful onto the prepared cookie sheets and flatten. Bake for 5 minutes. Take out of the oven and sprinkle raisins on top (if you do it when you first put them in the oven, they will burn). Bake for another 5 minutes or until cookies are set. Makes 2 dozen.

I keep a bag in the freezer and take one in my bag to class to fend of the morning tummy rumbles.

♥ E

The Happy Hyper Cookie

Be forewarned… When you make these cookies, you WILL stay up with your friends until 3AM playing board games and laughing about things that really aren’t that funny… Like glassware.

                                  

This heavenly, fluffy, cookie is a remake from “Vegan Cookie’s Invade Your Cookie Jar.”  I wanted to make a version that was gluten free, sugar free, and oil free. So this afternoon I started throwing things into a bowl, that’s where the real magic happens. 

So here goes:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line two cookie sheets with parchment paper. (Trust me, you really want that parchment paper!!!) 

1 cup coconut milk (I used So Delicious from a carton, so it was thinner and has less calories/fat)
2 ripe bananas (smashed)
1/4 cup ground flax seeds2 tsp vanilla extract
3-4 Tbs instant espresso pwd OR instant coffee grandes mixed with a SMALL amount of boiling water
1-2 Tbs pure maple syrup (depending on your sweet tooth)
4 cups old fashioned oats
1/4 cup gluten free flour (I used garbanzo… Coconut or almond meal would work well here!) 1 tsp cinnamon1/4 cup cocoa pwd2 tsp baking powder 1 cup chocolate chips 

Process: Mix all of the wet ingredients with the flax seeds and espresso powder. Add The dry ingredients, mix well. Lastly, mix in the chocolate chips.  Use a spoon to drop a heaping Tablespoon of batter onto the pre-lined cookie sheets. Bake for 7-12 minutes. Please watchthem, as different ovens cook at different rates… Mine sure has a bad track record for being correct! 

Add ins that I’m thinking about for the future:
ChiaSeeds
Protein powder
Hemp Seeds

Enjoy!! Let me know if you tried anything fun with these cookies and how they turned out!! :) 

 ♥ E