Chewy Cocon-OAT-meal cookies? Sorry I had to.

These are some awesome cookies I came up with trying to make some low-sugar oatmeal cookies to make ice cream sandwiches with. They were so good, I ate them plain.

In fact, I got so obsessed with them that I now keep unbaked cookie dough balls in my freezer at all times.

Whenever I need one of these babies in my belly I preheat the oven and bake for 12 minutes. Boom.

I urge you to do the same because cookies, as everything else, are best straight out of that OVEN.

Now lookie em up real close, won’t ya.

Let me know if you give these a try!

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4.78 from 9 votes

Chewy Coconut Oatmeal Cookies

Prep Time10

Cook Time10

Course: Breakfast, Dessert, Snack

Keyword: coconut, easy recipes, gluten-free, low sugar, oatmeal, oatmeal cookies, plant-based, small-batch, vegan

Servings: servings

Calories: 190kcal

Equipment

Hand/stand mixer
Cookie sheet or similar tray

Ingredients

Wet ingredients

1/2 cup (plant) butter, softened (112 g) dairy-free if desired
1/2 cup sugar (96 g) coconut/brown sugar works best
1 egg, room temp sub a flax egg, or 3 tbsp mashed banana
1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Dry ingredients

3/4 cup flour (90 g) gf all purpose if desired
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/2 cup rolled oats (120 g)
1/2 cup shredded coconut (40 g)
1/2 cup (optional) chocolate chips (90 g)

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350F and line a cookie sheet with parchment.
In a large bowl cream together butter and sugar. Beat in egg and vanilla.
Add flour, baking soda, salt and rolled oats, mix until combined.
Finally stir in the coconut and (optional) chocolate chips.
Scoop on the parchment (I made 24 small cookies, freeze some cookie dough balls for future baking if you like) and bake 10-12 minutes until the edges are golden.
Cool slightly and enjoy!!

Notes

To make a flax egg, stir together 1 tbsp (7 g) flax seed meal and 3 tbsp water and let it sit and thicken for 5 minutes.
To bake from frozen, add 1-2 extra minutes to the regular baking time. Fresh cookies whenever you want!!
These cookies are just the right level of sweetness for breakfast but if you want them even sweeter, add some extra white sugar or granulated sweetener.
The recipe will make 12 regular sized and 24 small cookies, for larger cookies bake a few more minutes.