Delicious Vegan Oatmeal Cookies — with chocolate chips or raisins! Made with oats and Sunflower Seed Butter, these healthy gluten free oatmeal cookies will quickly become a favorite. The recipe instructions include tips to make these chewy or on the crunchy side.
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How to Make Vegan Oatmeal Cookies
Homemade cookies are the BEST thing to keep stocked in the freezer. Making cookies at home means you control the ingredients. Replace sugar with lower glycemic and more natural alternatives, like date syrup, coconut nectar, or honey. Swap refined flours for whole oats.
These healthy oatmeal cookies are made with:
- SunButter No Sugar Added (nut free alternative to PB!)
- Date Syrup or Honey
- Coconut oil
- Flax seed meal
- Salt, baking soda, and cinnamon
- Lemon juice (counteracts a reaction between SunButter and baking soda)
- Oats & oat flour (certified gluten free, if necessary)
- Coconut
- Dark Chocolate Chips — or raisins, or nuts, if you don’t need nut free!
To help keep your freezer stocked, I’ve stream lined this recipe.
This one bowl cookie recipe is made by:
- Mixing together the “wet” ingredients, and then adding the baking soda, salt and cinnamon.
- Add the oats, oat flour, coconut and dark chocolate chips, and stirring well to fully mix.
- Scoop the dough (which will be sticky!) in 1 1/2 tablespoon mounds – (top with extra chocolate chips if desired!).
- Bake for 14 minutes at a lower temp – 325º F, to keep the cookies from over browning.
- Enjoy dunked in a glass of almond milk, or as a Vegan Raspberry Ice Cream Sandwich <3
You also don’t want to miss this gluten free vegan oatmeal chocolate chip bars recipe.
Great for School – Nut Free, Vegan and Gluten Free Oatmeal Cookies
I love the trend of schools going nut free, showing sensitivity and providing a safer environment to the growing number of our kids who have serious allergies.
Growing up with a peanut allergy, this concession wasn’t made at the schools I attended.
(If you don’t have allergies, and are really wanting a gluten free peanut butter cookie, this recipe is amazing!).
There are lots of nut free alternatives to peanut butter, including my favorite, SunButter. Sunflower seed butter is safe for students with nut allergies, and honestly, I think it’s great to expose our children to a variety of nuts and seeds.
Even if your child doesn’t have an allergy, I encourage you to pick up SunButter and give it a try!
This recipe uses SunButter No Sugar Added. If you prefer to use the Organic variety, double the amount of salt in the recipe (it doesn’t contain salt).
I love vegan baking. It’s a great excuse to use alternative ingredients, like flax seeds and chia seeds, and the ingredients are often cleaner than a “standard” recipe.
This particular one is made wholesome with oats, coconut, and of course, dark chocolate.
When you’re done making these cookies, definitely check out my recipe for Oatmeal Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches! The recipe also uses SunButter and is a must-try!
The Best Vegan Oatmeal Cookies
I don’t have very many cookie recipes on my site, particularly because it’s difficult to make gluten free cookies that are low in sugar.
This one took at least 15 attempts over the past 6 months, but they are perfect!
Crispy on the edges, soft and chewy in the center. They can bake into crispy, flatter cookies if you prefer, or remain softer and more rounded (see notes in recipe).
I added chocolate, because dark chocolate is delicious, healthy, and I have a slight addiction to it.
Use raisins if that’s what you love. Add nuts or sunflower seeds for an extra crunch.
If you’re looking for an oatmeal cookie that doesn’t need to be gluten free, try this healthy oatmeal cookie recipe.
Enjoy!
Other Gluten Free & Vegan Cookie Recipes:
- No Bake Almond Joy Cookies, by Sunkissed Kitchen
- The BEST Vegan Brownies, by Sunkissed Kitchen
- No Bake Granola Bars, by Sunkissed Kitchen
- Dark Chocolate Peppermint Macaroons, by Sunkissed Kitchen
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Vegan Oatmeal Cookies
Ingredients
- 5 tablespoons date syrup or sub honey
- 5 tablespoons SunButter no sugar added
- 1/4 cup coconut oil melted
- 1 tablespoon flax seed meal
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice*
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup oat flour **or oats ground into flour in a blender
- 3/4 cup oats
- 1/2 cup coconut unsweetened
- 1/3 cup dark chocolate chips or raisins
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325º F.
- In a mixing bowl, add melted coconut oil, date syrup (or honey), and SunButter. Mix well to combine.
- Add cinnamon, flax seed meal, baking soda and salt, along with lemon juice, and mix well. SunButter and baking soda have a reaction that turns baked goods green, and the lemon juice counteracts that. The green color isn't harmful and it doesn't change the taste, but the color can be off putting.
- Add the oat flour, whole oats, coconut, and chocolate chips (or raisins), and stir to combine.
- Add cookie dough to a baking sheet (I like to line the baking tray with parchment or a Silpat) in 1 1/2 tablespoon mounds. The cookies will spread, so leave space.
- Bake for 14 minutes. If you prefer the cookies to be more on the crunchy side, open the door and turn off the heat after 14 minutes, and then put the cookies back in the oven with the door cracked open for an additional 5-10 minutes.
- These cookies are best stored in the refrigerator or freezer, but are delicious hot out of the oven. Just allow them to cool slightly because they will be delicate until they've started to cool.
I never thought of mixing raisins with coconut, but these cookies sound delicious! I don’t suffer food allergies, but the fact that something like this sun butter exists is wonderful. Thanks for sharing!
These are 100% cookie goals! Love that they’re vegan too 🙂
These cookies look and sound amazing!
I love exploring new vegan recipes. And this one is a must-try! After all you can’t go wrong with chocolate chips and sunflower seed butter:)
Absolutely not! I adore sunbutter and chocolate together 🙂 A bit too much, maybe!
I love these cookies. They are sooo delicious. Thanks.
Thank you! 🙂
Could you sub maple for the honey/date syrup? Or would it be too sweet?