Healthy Oatmeal Cookies
Serves: 16 cookies
Delicious Healthy Oatmeal Cookies which are sugar-free! This recipe uses maple syrup as a natural sweetener. These oatmeal cookies are perfect for school lunchboxes and as a healthy snack. Recipe with step-by-step photos.
Ingredients
- 200 g (1 ⅓ cup) plain flour, (all-purpose flour), plus 1 tablespoon extra flour
- 5 g (1 teaspoon) baking powder
- 50 g (⅔ cup) dessicated coconut, (shredded coconut), plus more for sprinkling
- 50 g (¼ cup) rolled oats
- 1 egg
- 2 tablespoons coconut oil or vegetable oil
- 80 ml (⅓ cup) maple syrup
- 2 tablespoons milk, any kind
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F) (without fan).
- Line a baking tray with baking paper.
- Place all of the ingredients into a food processor.
- Blitz until everything is well-combined.
- Pinch off a tablespoon of the mixture and roll it into a ball. Alternatively, use a small ice-cream scoop with 15 ml (1 tablespoons) capacity (which I recommend as the mixture is very sticky).
- Place the balls of dough onto the lined baking tray.
- Place the extra flour onto a small plate and dip a fork into the flour.
- Gently flatten the balls of dough with the floured fork.
- Sprinkle with extra dessicated coconut.
- Bake the cookies for about 20 minutes, or until they are lovely and golden.
- Cool the cookies on a wire rack.
Kitchen Notes
- VARIATION
Stir about 1/3 cup mini dark chocolate chips (bittersweet chocolate) through the cookie mixture. - STORAGE TIPS
These cookies taste best on the day they are baked. However, they keep well in a covered container for a few days, but will soften slightly. - RECIPE CREDIT
This recipe is adapted from Love, Laugh, Bake! by Silvia Colloca - OVEN TEMPERATURES
All recipes on this website state temperatures for a regular oven (i.e. a conventional oven without fan). If you have a convection oven with a fan, please consult the manufacturer's handbook on how to adjust the temperature and baking time accordingly. - CONVERSIONS
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