Description
These Healthier Coconut Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies are a gluten free, refined sugar free, and loaded with better for you ingredients…all without sacrificing any flavor! These are a great baking alternative for when you want something sweet but without all the guilt.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 stick unsalted butter
- 1 cup coconut sugar (or light brown sugar)
- 2 teaspoon vanilla bean paste or extract
- 1 large egg plus 1 egg yolk, at room temperature
- 1 cup almond flour
- ½ cup coconut flour
- 1 cup old-fashioned oats
- ½ cup flaked unsweetened coconut
- 1 tablespoon chia seeds
- 1 tablespoon ground flaxseed
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon fine salt
- 4 oz bittersweet chocolate, chopped (chips are also fine – roughly ¾ cup)
- Flaky sea salt, for garnish (optional)
Instructions
- Melt the butter in a medium heat-safe mixing bowl. While it’s still warm, whisk in the coconut sugar and vanilla. Stir for a minute or two to soften the coconut sugar.
- Add the egg and egg yolk and stir until smooth.
- In a second bowl, whisk together the flours, oats, shredded coconut, chia seeds, flaxseed, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt.
- Add the dry mixture into the wet ingredients a little at a time, stirring well after each addition. Stir until a soft dough forms. Stir in the chocolate.
- Preheat the oven to 350°F and line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Scoop ¼-cup sized balls of the dough onto the baking sheets, leaving a couple inches of space in between each dough ball.
- Using your fingers, gently flatten the cookies down slightly. Bake for 11-13 minutes or until the edges of the cookies are set and golden and the centers are just slightly underdone.
- When they first come out of the oven, sprinkle the cookies with flaky sea salt, if desired. Cool on the baking sheets for 10 minutes before transferring the cookies to a wire rack to cool completely.
Notes
- To ensure that these are gluten free, make sure to check that you’re using gluten-free oats.
- You can use any chocolate you like, but I recommend semisweet or bittersweet because the cookies may be too sweet otherwise. You can use chips or chunks. I prefer the way chopped chocolate melts.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 12 minutes
- Category: cookies