Vegan hazelnut oatmeal cookies, with chocolate chips and coconut sugar. Using hazelnuts in the base of these cookies adds richness and a buttery taste.
Course Dessert
Cuisine Vegan
Prep Time 10 minutesminutes
Cook Time 16 minutesminutes
Total Time 26 minutesminutes
Servings 15cookies
Ingredients
1cuphazelnuts*
1cuprolled oats
1cupspelt flour*
½cupcoconut sugar
⅓cupsemi-sweet chocolate chips
½teaspoonbaking soda
¼teaspoonsalt
¼cupcoconut oilmelted
2tablespoonsmaple syrup
2tablespoonscoconut milk*
2teaspoonspure vanilla extract
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350F/180C and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Place the hazelnuts on the baking sheet and roast for about 8 minutes, or until fragrant. Let them cool slightly before grinding into a coarse meal (see above photo).
In a large bowl, combine the ground hazelnuts, oats, flour, coconut sugar, chocolate chips, baking soda, and salt.
In a smaller bowl, mix the coconut oil, maple syrup, coconut milk, and vanilla. Whisk it well with a fork until it turns into a lighter, more viscous liquid. This shouldn't take more than half a minute.
Add the coconut oil mixture to the dry ingredients and stir until everything is incorporated. I used my hands to make sure it was well mixed. You might have some issues with chocolate chips not wanting to stay in the dough, but just stick them into the cookies once they're on the baking sheet.
Use a spoon or ice cream scoop (mine was a #3 size) to drop even amounts of cookie dough onto the prepared baking sheet. Flatten them slightly with your hands.
Bake in the preheated oven for 8-10 minutes, or until golden in colour. Cool on the sheet for ten minutes before removing and cooling fully on a rack. Store in a sealed container for up to five days, if they last that long.
Notes
1. You can substitute 1 cup pre-ground hazelnut meal for the hazelnuts. The flavour won't be as pronounced if you don't roast them beforehand, but they're still good. 2. I tried this recipe with both light and sprouted spelt flour, and it turned out well either way. I prefer them with light spelt flour (they're cookies, for crying out loud). 3. Use the full-fat coconut milk from the top of a can if you can. Otherwise, any kind of non-dairy milk will work fine here.