Maple Nut Oaties
Ingredients:
- 1 cup toasted rolled oats. I just toast them in the toaster oven set on 350° for a few minutes. Watch them as they burn easily.
- 1/2 cup nut butter
- 1/2 cup maple syrup or agave nectar
- 1/2 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
- 1/2 cup chopped nuts
- 1/2 cup chocolate/carob chips or dried fruit (One really good combo is cashew butter with dried pineapple. Yum!)
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 to 1/2 tsp salt (omit if using salted nut butter)
Directions:
- Pre-heat oven to 325°.
- Combine all ingredients and refrigerate for 15 minutes.
- Scoop cookie dough by TBSP (I actually use a melon ball scooper) onto parchment lined or greased cookie sheet.
- Bake 10-12 minutes.
- Let cool for a minute or so, and then I just pick them up and form into balls before placing on the cooling rack.
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Is that supposed to be 1/2 cup of agave?
Lara,
Yes, 1/2 cup. Thanks for catching that – just updated the recipe.
They look awesome! Thanks.
Yum!! AND Gluten Free – YEA!!! I just might have to whip up a batch of these.
Thanks for sharing the recipe.
These look delish! Can’t wait to try them! Thanks!
These sound like great cookies. Thanks for the recipe!
Heather! These look great! I love making hodge-podged oat cookies…they’re always delicious.
Sorry about your bummed 12th South experience…Hot Yoga knows where it’s at.
Take care!
Kaneil, balanceisbest
i can’t wait to make these! thanks so much for the recipe
Wow this recipe looks really great… just a question though, as a student on a budget, I can’t pour 1/2 cup worth of maple syrup/agave without seeing $$$ signs flowing away …. any cheaper substitutions???
Thanks!
Hey Cecilia,
You could always try juice concentrates like apple, pineapple, or cherry. I bet they would work nicely in the Maple Oaties recipe. I did try honey once, but the cookies turned out way too sweet. If you do use honey, only use 1/4 cup instead of 1/2.
yum these look fantastic, and i have all those ingredients in my cupboard already, score!
A word of caution: these aren’t gluten-free unless they are specifically made with gluten-free oats. Oats are contaminated with wheat through their growing cycle due to crop rotation, and also in processing. Many celiacs are also sensitive to the protein in oats as it is structurally similar to gluten. Please be careful.
Finally made these! My kids ate ‘em all right up!!
Unsweetened coconut is very hard to find in my area. If I use the sweetened coconut instead, will I have to alter the recipe at all?
I really want to make these. How many does it make? Thanks!
These look super yummy! Thanks so much for posting it. Is there anything I can use instead of coconut? I’m allergic
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I have the ingredients in my kitchen, so have mixed everything and waiting for it to cool for 15 minutes before it goes in the oven…
Problem is… I keep going back to the fridge to “taste” it one more time…. IT TASTES SO AWESOME!
My son is allergic to wheat (not celiac) so this recipe fits perfectly for him. It’s sweet so I think of it mainly as a treat, but because of the other thing good for him in it, like the nuts, unsweetened coconut, oats and cinnamon- I also think of it as something nutritious to eat.
I love your recipes and thank you for sharing them with us!
- Carolyn
You’re welcome Carolyn. So glad you like the cookies…um, I mean batter. Hehe. Every time I make a batch, I cannot keep CD out of the dough! Enjoy and thanks for reading my blog.
Hope you have a good weekend. Love, Heather
these are my favs!
Ok, so I might have to try and make these with quinoa flakes
I hope they aren’t the suck. I know Oats would taste better. *le sigh* quinoa flakes it is!
Marissa, Please let me know how the oaties turn out with quinoa flakes!
Love the cookies…I had to substitute a few things and didn’t have the shredded coconut but I used honey instead of agave and used less and used coconut oil to even out the liquids. Will be trying lots of different combos!
Chandra, So glad you enjoyed your Oaties. Sounded delicious!
just made these and theyre AMAZING! i halved the recipe and subbed in honey instead and they were fantastic…ive eaten them everday this week since making them
thanks for this awesome reciepe!
Lauren, So glad you liked them.
Ooh yum! These look so tasty!
just made a batch.. YUMMMMM. now only if i had self control..
Felicia, NEVER make oaties at night…way too tempting fresh from the oven. They will call to you from the kitchen.
Just had my first oatie! Ohhh soooo gooood!
Hey Heather, thanks for the recipe! I just made a batch and they look amazing! I ate way too much of the raw mixture though!
I’m going to write up about it on my blog but will be sure to credit you.
Thanks!
So glad you enjoyed the Oaties Jo, and yes, that raw batter is super dangerous to have around. It’s like granola cookie dough!
these are soo good, but when i cooked them for only 12 minutes they were still super soft. i ended up leaving them in closer to 15-20 minutes til the outside got almost golden brown, and even then they are still really mushy in the center. no complaints cause they taste FANTASTIC- but is that the right consistency?
oh, i also used 1/4 cup mashed banana and 1/4 cup maple syrup in attempt to cut down on maple syrup (im a poor college kid and the only way i get syrup is when my parents treat me hah) and the taste was fantastic, espeically cause i used peanut butter and chocolate.
Jane, Glad you liked the Oaties. No, mind don’t stay really soft in the center. The cook all the way through. I’m wondering if the banana changed the texture? Oh well, doesn’t matter, as long as they turned out delicious, right? Enjoy!
Once again, HEABS recipes to the rescue. After some tracking (not wanting to but needing to), I’ve found my sugars are too high so pizza pancakes tomorrow for supper it is.
AND I’m making the maple nut oaties for a “Good for you, good for the earth” green themed basket for a giveaway next week.
Oh. My. I finally made these this morning. I tasted them warm and they were deeeelicious. I justed tasted another cooled, and I think I may swoon. These are positively the best cookies I have made in a very long time. I would say that I need to hide them from myself but it doesn’t really help if I know where that hiding place is. So, I think I will just beat myself to the punch and snarf them all down in the next, ummm, 46 minutes :O
Sally, I often have to hide the Oaties from my husband. Glad you enjoyed.
what’s the nutritional info on these buggers? i need to know how many of them i can eat
lo, I added it up once for another blogger. If I remember correctly, it was over 200 calories per cookie if you make 12 cookies per batch. They are definitely NOT low cal, but so yummy.
I finally made these today. When my husband came home from work, he popped one in his mouth and gave me a look that said this was probably the best thing I’ve ever made. This recipe is definitely a keeper. I’ve already passed it along to a friend.
Cindy, So glad you enjoyed the oaties, and that they were husband approved.
They are in my oven RIGHT NOW!!
Susan, Enjoy!
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