These irresistibly chewy chocolate chip oat flour cookies are perfect for a snack or dessert. With no eggs and no dairy, this oat flour cookie recipe is also vegan as well as free from refined sugar and refined flour.
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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.
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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 bowl.
Mix together with a wooden spoon until well combined.
In a medium bowl, add 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).
Press down on each dough ball lightly with your fingertips.
Bake cookies for approximately 12-16 minutes until they are set and 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.
- The cookies can be stored at room temperature in an airtight container for up to 4 days. Note that they will continue to soften during storage.
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.
Frequently asked questions
All you need to do to make your own oat flour is add whole rolled oats (certified GF if needed) to a blender or food processor. A food processor will work best to grind the oats into a fine powder that you can then use for all your gluten-free baking needs. You can then use it to make these vegan oat flour cookies or other vegan baked goods as well.
The best way to store all cookie recipes that you've baked, is to let them cool completely on the cookie sheet or cooling rack and then store them in an airtight container. If you want to freeze these decadent oat flour cookies, you can as well by storing them in a freezer-safe container.
You can, but it's important that you make sure that you're swapping out the flours in the correct way. If a recipe calls for all-purpose flour and you want to swap with oat flour, you'll want to swap out by weight, not measurement. Using a kitchen scale is important when it comes to using oat flour instead of white flour.
Oat flour recipes tend to offer more fiber, protein, and other healthy nutrients than recipes made with traditional white flour.
Oat Flour Cookies
Ingredients
- 6 tablespoon vegan buttery sticks, softened
- ½ cup coconut sugar
- 3 tablespoon aquafaba (in liquid form, not whipped)
- 1 ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup gluten-free, whole-grain oat flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 cup gluten-free, old-fashioned rolled oats
- ½ cup unsweetened shredded coconut
- ½ cup vegan, refined sugar-free chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350º F and line a half sheet baking pan with parchment paper (or two smaller baking sheets that fit side by side on the center oven rack).
- Mix together butter, coconut sugar, aquafaba and vanilla in a large bowl until well combined.
- In another bowl, combine oat flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- Pour flour mixture into butter mixture and stir to combine.
- Stir in oats.
- Fold in coconut and chocolate chips.
- Use a cookie scoop (I used a #30 disher) or your hands to create 16 dough balls and place them on the baking sheet(s) 1-2 inches apart. Press down on each dough ball lightly with your fingertips.
- Bake for approximately 12-16 minutes on the center rack until cookies are set and edges appear light golden brown.
- Cool on baking sheet for approximately 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to continue to cool.
(Please refer to the post above for instructional photographs and other helpful information for this recipe)
Notes
- Substitute chocolate chunks for chocolate chips.
- Use raisins instead of chocolate chips.
- If you are not nut-free, try swapping 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.
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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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Christie
I am a huge fan of oat flour in my baked goods and these oat flour cookies sound so good! I will definitely need to bookmark this for later. Thanks for sharing!
Sherri Hall
Thanks so much, Christie! I love using oat flour too! 🙂
Kate
If we aren't cooking vegan, what is the egg replacement for the aquafaba? Thanks for the Gluten Free cookie.
Sherri Hall
Hi Kate! You can use 1 egg in place of the aquafaba. Hope you enjoy! Have an awesome weekend! 🙂
Elsa Lopez
I just made this cookies they come up great I just change the coconut sugar instead I used some mix of moscabado sugar with stevia ?
Sherri Hall
Thank you Elsa! I'm so glad you loved the cookies! Thanks for sharing your experience with the sugar swap! 🙂
Jackie
How much coconut oil? It’s not specified
Sherri Hall
Hi Jackie, thanks for stopping by...there is no coconut oil in this recipe but I suppose you could use it in place of the vegan butter, although I have not tested this. I would try using the same amount (6 tbsp.) if you do try it. Feel free to let me know if you have any other questions. Hope you have a great day! 🙂
Sherri Hall
PS - Sorry for the typo in the directions...didn't even realize it was in there. I updated it. 🙂