These healthy vegan cookies are packed full of good for you ingredients - oats, seeds, dark chocolate and walnuts. Perfect for mid-afternoon pick me up or snack time.
Prep Time15 minutesmins
Cook Time15 minutesmins
Total Time30 minutesmins
Course: Cookies and Squares
Cuisine: Vegan
Keyword: dark chocolate, hemp seeds, oats, walnuts
Servings: 24cookies
Calories: 209kcal
Author: Trish | The infinebalance Food Blog
Ingredients
2cupsrolled oats
1cupunbleached white flour
¼cupunsweetened coconut
¼cupsesame seeds
¼cupsunflower seeds
2tablespoonhemp seed kernals
2tablespoonwhole flax seeds
¼teaspoonbaking soda
½teaspoonbaking powder
1tablespooncinnamon
¼teaspoonsalt
¾cupbrown sugar
¼cupmaple syrup
½cupcoconut oilmelted and slightly cooled
1teaspoonvanilla
1cupchopped walnuts
100g85% dark chocolateor about ½ cup of dark chocolate chips
1-2tablespoonwarm waterif needed (see below for more information)
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350.
In large bowl mix together dry ingredients, oats through salt. In separate bowl (or in 2 cup liquid measuring cup) whisk together brown sugar, maple syrup, melted coconut oil and vanilla. Add wet ingredients to dry and mix to just combine. Fold in nuts and chocolate. You may need to use your hands to throughly mix the dough. It will be crumbly.
If dough it really crumbly and not sticking together at all add a little warm warm water, mixing it in with your hands. Dough will start to form largerly, crumbly clumps.
Press dough into balls, it will not want to hold and it will take some coaxing to get these to stick together. I find the easiest way to do this is to use my medium cookie scoop and press the batter firmly into the scoop, then releasing the formed balls onto the cookie sheet. Bake cookies on the parchment lined cookie sheet for about 15 minutes, they will be lightly puffed and browned on the bottom. Remove to cooling rack. Cool completely before packing into an airtight container for storage.
Makes approximately 2 dozen large cookies.
Notes
These are hearty cookies packed with seeds, nuts and a little bit of dark chocolate. The batter is difficult to work with. You need to press the cookie dough together to form tight balls. I use a 5cm or 2" cookie scoop like this one to form cookies. The scoop holds about 1.5 oz or 2.5 tablespoon per cookie. You can buy them on amazon, typically in a set of three sizes. If you don't like some of healthy add-in in these cookies, or don't have all the ingredients on hand, feel free to substitute equal amounts of other nuts or seeds. Dried fruit could be used as well but will impact the nutrition of the cookies.These cookies keep well in an air tight container for about 1 week. They also freeze well; freeze for up to 3 months