FLOURLESS OATMEAL RAISIN COOKIES

June 16, 2020 / Lyn Jones / 0 Comments

Soft, chewy and scrumptious oatmeal raisin cookies! They are flourless, vegan, gluten-free, oil-free and irresistible, equal parts delicious and nutritious, easy-to-make, and 100% comforting.

INGREDIENTS

  • 1/4 cup (60 mL) water
  • 1 tablespoon (15 mL) flaxseed meal
  • 1 cup (250 mL) creamy almond butter (or other creamy nut/seed butter)
  • 1/3 cup (75 mL) coconut sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2/3 cup (60 g) old-fashioned rolled oats
  • 1/3 cup (50 g) raisins (she meant sultanas)
  • 1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon bicarb
    parchment paper

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
  2. In a medium bowl, stir together the water and flaxseed meal. Let stand 5 minutes to thicken.
  3. Add the almond butter, coconut sugar and vanilla, stirring until blended and smooth. Add the oats, raisins, salt and bicarb, stirring until combined.
  4. Using a small cookie scoop or rounded Tab. scoop 14 mounds of dough onto the prepared baking sheet. Dough doesn’t spread much, so using fingertips, flatten to about 1/4″ thickness.
  5. Bake in the preheated oven for 10-12 mins til cookies have spread a little and are golden brown. They will be soft, somewhat fragile when they first come out, so cool on baking sheet for 10 minutes before removing to a rack to cool completely.

NOTES

Storage: They tend to get soft if left at room temp. for more than a day. Store the cooled cookies in an airtight container at (cool) room temperature for 1 day, the fridge for 1 week or the freezer for up to 6 months.

Variations: An equal amount of chocolate chips/chunks, other dried fruit (chopped, as needed), or chopped nuts or seeds can be used in place of the raisins.

  • Category: Cookies
  • Method: Baking

NUTRITION

  • Serving Size: 1 cookie
  • Calories: 147
  • Sugar: 8.6 g
  • Sodium: 121.5 mg
  • Fat: 9 g
  • Saturated Fat: 0.9 g
  • Carbohydrates: 14.8 g
  • Fiber: 2.4 g
  • Protein: 4.1 g
  • Cholesterol: 0 mg

 

Sunflower Seed Cookies

June 8, 2020 / Lyn Jones / 0 Comments

These are fancy, delicious and healthy too! They are gluten-free, refined-sugar free and vegan which means there are no eggs used. These have healthy ingredients and no starch. Makes 28-30
(http://www.realfoodforlife.com/sunflower-seed-cookies/)


Ingredients

  • 2/3 cup virgin coconut oil *melted
  • 1/2 cup coconut sugar ground finely
  • 1/4 tsp light liquid stevia (liquid retains more nutriments)
  • 2 Tab ground golden flaxseeds
  • 1/4 cup warm water
  • 2/3 cup brown rice flour
  • 1/3 cup rolled oats
  • 2 tsp BP
  • 1/2 tsp Himalayan salt
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2/3 cup sunflower seeds
  • 1/2 cup pumpkin seeds
  • 1/3 cup almonds
  • 1/2 cup raisins unsulfured, unsweetened

    Instructions

    • Preheat the oven to 325º F
    • Add warm water to the flax meal in a small bowl and mix; let it sit for 5 minutes.
    • Combine the coconut oil, sugar, vanilla, stevia, and salt in a bowl until creamy.
    • Add the flax meal mixture to the coconut oil mixture and mix well.
    • Then mix in the brown rice flour and baking powder.
    • Mix in the oatmeal, raisins, seeds, and nuts.
    • Make little one inch mounds, place each of them on a coconut greased baking sheet and flatten each one.
    • Bake for 10 to 15 minutes.
    • Take them out of the oven and let them cool before removing them from the sheet.
    ** This is for an egg-free vegan recipe, learn more about Eggs Substitutes.

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