Oatmeal Cream Pies
A delicious sandwich cookie made with two oatmeal cookies, with a creamy vanilla buttercream in the center. This homemade version is healthier, and you can experiment with flavored fillings!
Servings: 9 sandwich cookies
Calories: 332kcal
Ingredients
Gluten Free Oatmeal Cookies
- 6 tablespoons SunButter No Sugar Added or sub SunButter Organic + 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 6 tablespoons maple syrup
- 1/4 cup coconut oil
- 1 tablespoon flax meal optional, but helps cookies stay more firm
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 cup oats *certified gluten free, if necessary
- 1 cup oat flour *I blend whole oats in my blender
Vanilla Buttercream
- 4 ounces cream cheese
- 4 tablespoons butter *I recommend grass-fed or pastured butter
- 1 1/2 cups powdered monk fruit sweetener or powdered sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350º F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, add the SunButter, maple syrup, coconut oil, flax meal, lemon juice, cinnamon, salt and baking soda. Stir to combine.
- Add in the oats and oat flour, and stir to form a sticky cookie dough.
- Using a 2 tablespoon cookie scoop, make balls of cookie dough, leaving 3 inches of space, on baking sheets. This recipe should make about 18 cookies.
- Bake cookies for 13 minutes, until cookies have spread and begun to brown around the edges.
- Once the cookies have fully cooled, pipe vanilla buttercream onto the bottom side of half of the cookies, and sandwich with the rest of the oatmeal cookies.
Vanilla Buttercream
- Add all ingredients into a mixing bowl, and beat until combined. This recipe requires no liquid and should form a thick frosting.
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Notes
How to Store Leftover Oatmeal Cream Pies
Store leftover sandwich cookies in an air tight container in the refrigerator for up to 1 weeks, or in the freezer for up to 3 months. If you freeze your oatmeal cream pies, allow them to thaw in the refrigerator for 2 hours, or on the countertop for 15 minutes, prior to enjoying.Are Oatmeal Cream Pies Vegan?
This oatmeal cream pie recipe is easily made vegan! The oatmeal cookies are vegan as written. Simply substitute your favorite vegan vanilla buttercream in the center, or use a vegan butter and vegan cream cheese in the recipe provided.Are Oatmeal Cream Pies Healthy?
The Little Debbie packaged oatmeal creme pies list corn syrup as the first ingredient. Corn syrup is particularly harmful to our health because of the way fructose is processed. It causes our livers to store fat, which leads to fatty liver disease and a variety of other illnesses. In addition, it contains several kinds of processed seed oils, which are inflammatory.Nutrition
Calories: 332kcal | Carbohydrates: 28g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 23g | Saturated Fat: 12g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 26mg | Sodium: 210mg | Potassium: 147mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin A: 331IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 57mg | Iron: 2mg