The vegan version of my all time fave copy-cat cookie recipe! Salty Oats by Kayak Cookies.
If you know you know that I’m obsessed with @kayakcookies. The thickest chewiest “subtly sweet, curiously salty” oatmeal cookies ever 😱 When people eat these cookies, they don’t just love them, they join the “Kayak Cult”.
So I’m in the cult and last year I’ve finally perfected my copy-cat recipe using an over-the-top reverse engineering technique 😆 Read it.
My blogging efforts never really took off, because it turns out, blogging is werk 🤷♀️ and I’m already amply employed 😅 However my copy-cat recipe recently started going kinda viral? I’ve been discovered by the CULT! I get messages daily from people making these cookies now. Why now but… YAY?
So I had to revisit this recipe. And now that I’m a bit more focused on plant-based baking, I tried alternative ingredients. I also made them cranberry orange, since orange seems to be everyone’s fave flavor lately.
Here’s what I came up with, hope you love!
Small-batch Cranberry Orange Salty Oats Cookies
Equipment
- Cookie sheet
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp coconut oil, melted (14 g)
- 2 tbsp nut/seed butter (32 g) I used tahini
- 2 tbsp maple syrup (42 g) sub 2 tbsp sugar and 2 tbsp mashed banana
- 1/4 cup flour, gf all purpose if desired (30 g)
- 3/4 cup rolled oats (60 g)
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/8 tsp salt
- Zest of one small orange
- 1/4 cup dried cranberries (40 g) sub other dried fruit
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F and line a cookie sheet with parchment.
- Melt your oil the microwave, nut butter, maple and mix until blended.
- Add flour, oats, baking soda, salt, orange zest, combine. If the batter seems too dry add a tbsp of water or milk at a time and combine until a cookie dough consistency is achieved.
- Fold in cranberries. Between palms make ball of dough and slightly flatten as the cookies will not flatten themselves (You can freeze some as balls for baking from frozen later!)
- Bake 10-12 minutes for 12 small cookies (12-14 minutes for 6 medium cookies) until lightly golden.
- Let cookies cool and enjoy!
Dry and didn’t spread at all
Hi – The cookies do not spread by themselves as I mentioned in the recipe instructions. If the batter seems dry due to measurement error add 1 tbsp water/milk at a time and combine until a pliable cookie dough is formed (also in the instructions). Sorry you had a bad experience but hope you will give the recipe another try!