You’ll love these Gluten Free Oatmeal Raisin Cookies. Made with almond flour, whole oats, and sweetened with coconut sugar and honey, these gluten free oatmeal raisin cookies are sure to be a new favorite recipe.
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The BEST Healthy Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Recipe
We LOVE these cookies. They are soft and chewy, and get crunchy around the edges, and are LOADED with raisins, golden raisins, and dark chocolate chunks.
I often make small “snack sized” cookies, but these ones I like to make as large, bakery style cookies.
They are FULL of nutritious ingredients —
- Whole oats are a better choice than flours, even store bought oat flour. Milling grains removes a lot of the fiber and nutrients are destroyed by the processing. Using homemade oat flour is a better choice!
- They are gluten free – by choosing to use a certified gluten free oatmeal. Some people who are celiac are sensitive to avenin, a protein found in oats. If you are celiac or have severe allergies, always talk to a doctor before trying a new recipe or product!
- They use low glycemic index sweeteners. Table sugar has a glycemic index of 68. Honey and maple syrup have a glycemic index of 55 and coconut sugar’s GI ranges from 35-55. The other bonus to these cookies — they use about 1/3 the amount of sugar as a typical cookie recipe.
- Raisins and dark chocolate! The best of both worlds, if you ask me. I love to use golden raisins, regular raisins, and big dark chocolate chunks. If you can’t decide between oatmeal raisin and chocolate chip — do BOTH!
How to Make Gluten Free Oatmeal Cookies
Step 1: In a medium sized mixing bowl, mix together oatmeal, oat flour, almond flour, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt.
To make oat flour, add 1 cup of oatmeal to a blender, and process until it’s broken down into a flour. I think these cookies have a better texture if you make your oat flour this way, rather than using finely milled oat flour.
Step 2: In another medium sized mixing bowl, whisk eggs, then add the melted coconut oil, honey, coconut sugar, ground flax seed, and vanilla. Mix together well.
Step 3: Add the dry ingredients into the bowl with the wet, and mix to combine.
Step 4: Add the raisins and dark chocolate to the bowl, and fold to mix them into the cookie dough.
Step 5: Scoop the cookie dough onto a lined baking tray. I use a 3 tablespoon scoop. You can also used a rounded 1/4 cup measuring cup slightly underfilled.
Once the cookies are scooped onto the baking tray, press them down. These cookies do not spread much.
Step 6: Bake the cookies in an oven preheated to 350º for 9 minutes.
Other Great Healthy Cookie Recipes
Homemade gluten free oatmeal raisin cookies make great after school snacks, desserts, or even breakfast on a rushed day! I like having recipes like this stocked in my freezer.
You might also love these healthy gluten free cookie recipes:
- Vegan Double Chocolate Cookies
- Vegan Oatmeal Cookies
- No-Bake Almond Joy Cookies
- Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Chocolate Covered Raisin Oatmeal Cookies {Gluten-Free}
Ingredients
Dry
- 1 cup oat flour (process whole oats in a food processor until a flour is formed)*
- 1 cup almond meal or almond flour*
- 1 cup whole oats
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
Wet
- 1/4 cup +2 tablespoons coconut oil**
- 1/4 cup coconut sugar
- 2 tablespoons raw honey or maple syrup
- 2 tablespoons ground flax seed
- 1 egg
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
Mix-ins
- 3/4 cup raisins (I use half black and half golden)
- 1/3 cup 85% dark chocolate chopped, or dark chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350º.
- Add the dry ingredients together in a mixing bowl, and mix well.
- In a smaller bowl, mix together all the wet ingredients.
- Mix the wet ingredients into the dry, and then add the raisins and chocolate.
- Use a 3 tablespoon cookie scoop to scoop the cookies on to a cookie sheet. Use fingers to press each mound into a flattened cookie shape, since these will not spread while baking.
- Bake for 9-11 minutes. I pull mine out at 9 minutes to make them chewier.
- Allow to cool for at least 10 minutes before removing from cookie sheet. They will be very crumbly while hot, but will firm up after they've cooled.
- For best results, keep frozen. They are extra chewy when eaten out of the freezer, and I prefer the chocolate frozen because it's crunchy!
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Notes
- Use all raisins if preferred, and omit the dark chocolate.
- Omit the raisins and use dark chocolate.
- Use a different dried fruit, like cranberries or even freeze dried strawberries in place or the raisins.
- Forget the fruit, and add in extra dark chocolate!
Loving the graphic table cloth and placemat in this post. And those cookies look amazing – I’ll have to give them a try!
Thanks Elizabeth. I thought those shots turned out nice also. The cookies are amazing. I think we’re on our 7th or 8th batch. I usually make 2 or 3 batches of cookies, then move on to something different, but we’re in love with these 🙂
I like the peanut butter cookies with raisins. I’ll try this oatmeal and raisins; I think this is delicious too.
I love oatmeal cookies. Add the chocolate then it’s just perfect for me.
they look so yummy. I’ll definitely give it a try
Now I’m going to send this to mom, I think she needs to cook it for me lol Thank you for the recipe!
Great strategy! I wish my mom was close enough to cook for me.
The cookies look delicious… I like all recepies which are healthy and quick to make .. I think this fits the bill totally 🙂
Quick and easy– two important words! These are pretty fast once you have the ingredients.
Yummieee Recepie. xxx
You have described in a well way.
Chocolate covered raisins is one of my favourite snacks, so I think I would love these.
Chocolate covered raisins are awesome. Such a perfect combo!
Thanks Lindsay 🙂 They are delicious.
You can make them with butter if you really hate coconut oil. I like when the coconut oil in recipes shines through and you can taste it, but I don’t think you can taste it at all in these. Grapeseed oil is another great oil for baking, and I am sure it would work well.
Oat flour is a great flour to bake with! I hope you try it and like it!
these cookies look so delicious! nothing beats a good home baked oatmeal cookie!
You’re right 🙂 I’d rather have oatmeal cookies than pretty much any fancy kind. I’m boring like that when it comes to dessert though!
great healthy cookies!
Those are scrumptious looking cookies. I like that you chose all natural ingredients too. Delicious.
Elizabeth
I just tried these out and they are amazing.
I did add the walnuts. You don’t miss any extra sugar that is for sure.
I am so glad you tried them! And glad to hear you love them too. The walnuts really should be in the original recipe! They are such a good addition. I guess there will have to be a version II 🙂
I make these everytime I make cookies anymore. They are the ones I take to my friends when I want to do something special for them or as a thank you. These are the best.
Thank you for letting me know! They are delicious. I rarely ever make any other cookies either.
Just made these for our Father’s Day treats and they were fantastic. I made half the batch without chocolate and half with some 87% dark…both were excellent! We minimize sweetness in our household and these cookies have the perfect amount of sweetness, and a nice chewy cookie texture. They got great reviews from the whole family! Thank you!
Molly, thanks for coming back and letting me know! These are a favorite around here also. Whenever I ask my husband what kind he wants me to make, he says, “the usual,” meaning these! It gets kind of boring for someone who likes to be creative in the kitchen, but they really are an ideal cookie!
Since having my first child last year, I’ve been experimenting with making more and more things with no sugar or honey at all– I have a few date only sweetened recipes I’ll be posting soon, and some blueberry bars made with pears for sweetness, inspired by baby food! 🙂 Check back in the next few weeks!
When I bake treats, dates are my preferred sweetner (and pears only would be even better!) so I’m really looking forward to it! I’m with your husband – these cookies are definitely my favorite by far (and I have tried and liked some of the popular ones which were listed in your post.) So glad I stumbled upon your site! 🙂