Oat Flour Cookies [Vegan, GF]

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• Why you'll love this recipe
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• Oat Flour Cookies

Whether you love baking with oat flour already or are trying it out for the first time, you have got to try these vegan cookies!

With just the right amount of chocolaty-chippity goodness, these chocolate chip oatmeal cookies are sure to please.

I find oat flour to be a great gluten-free flour to work with and not only use it for baked goods like in these vegan almond butter cookies and these vegan brownie bites, but also for no-bake treats such as these chocolate chip cookie dough balls and these peanut butter energy balls.

Why you'll love this recipe

• Oat flour takes your classic chocolate chip cookies up to a whole new level
• No kneading the dough
• No chilling the dough or having to wait for the dough to rest
• No white sugar like other chocolate chip cookie recipes- but still delicious and sweet from the coconut sugar and other simple ingredients
• These aren't flat, dry cookies; they have a nice chewy texture with golden brown edges
• Vegan, nut-free, dairy-free, oil-free, gluten-free cookie recipe! And they're still soooo delicious!
• Fantastic cookie recipe that gives you yummy cookies in just over 20 minutes from start to finish- you can't beat this quick and simple recipe!

Ingredient highlights

• These cookies are made with a combination of gluten-free oat flour and rolled oats rather than all-purpose wheat flour. Since oats can be subjected to cross-contamination, be sure to use certified gluten-free oat flour as well as certified gluten-free rolled oats.
• This recipe uses dairy-free butter and vegan, dark chocolate chips instead of dairy-based butter and dairy-containing chocolate chips as well as aquafaba in place of eggs. If you're not familiar with aquafaba, it is the liquid found in a can of chickpeas...and it works amazingly well as an egg replacement. Find out more about aquafaba here. 
• Instead of using refined granulated sugar, this recipes uses unrefined, organic coconut sugar.
• Other ingredients include unsweetened shredded coconut, vanilla extract, baking powder, baking soda and salt.

How to make oat flour chocolate chip cookies

Preheat your oven to 350º F.

Then, line a half baking sheet (or 2 smaller baking sheets that fit side by side in the oven) with parchment paper. 

Add the butter, coconut sugar, aquafaba and vanilla to a large mixing bowl.

Mix the wet ingredients together with a wooden spoon until well combined.

In a medium bowl, combine the oat flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.

Whisk to combine.

Pour the combined dry ingredients into the combined wet ingredients.

Stir to combine the dry and wet ingredients together.

Add the oats.

Stir to combine.

Add the coconut and chocolate chips.

Fold to combine.

Create dough balls and place them on the prepared baking sheet(s).

Or, you can use a cookie scoop to get similar sized oat flour cookie dough balls.

Press down on each dough ball lightly with your fingertips.

Bake cookies for approximately 12-16 minutes until they are set and the edges appear light golden brown.

Tips for best results

• Be sure to use vegan buttery sticks rather than the spreadable vegan butter in the tub.
• Cool the cookies on the baking sheet for approximately 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to continue to cool. You want to allow the baked cookies to set before moving them, so that they do not fall apart. 
• Use room temperature wet ingredients if possible, especially room temperature softened butter, as it creams and mixes easier with the other ingredients.
• Don't overbake the cookies since they'll be sitting on the baking sheets once you pull them out of the oven, they'll bake a little more once you remove them from the heat of the baking sheets.
• You can use a hand mixer or stand mixer with the paddle attachment to mix the wet ingredients together. Using an electric mixer of some sort compared to hand mixing typically gives you a creamier mixture and less gritty cookies. But use whatever you have on hand.

Variations for oat flour cookies

• You can substitute chocolate chunks for chocolate chips if you'd prefer...
• Or, you can totally change out the chocolate chips for raisins instead...
• Or, if you are not nut-free, you can swap the chocolate chips for chopped pecans or walnuts or use half raisins and half nuts. Then add ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon to the flour mixture.
• You can use store-bought oat flour, or make your own homemade oat flour for these delicious cookies.

Storing

Your oat flour chocolate chunk cookies can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 4 days.

Unlike traditional chocolate chip cookies that may harden over time, these will continue to soften during storage.

Frequently asked questions

This post originally appeared on Watch Learn Eat on December 21, 2019. It has been republished to reflect recipe, photo and content revisions.

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