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1 Bowl Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Sunbutter Cookies. Cinnamony Sunflower seed butter Oatmeal Cookies. These Soft Sunbutter Oatmeal Cookies come together really quickly and make a great snack or treat. Refined Sugar free. Vegan Nut-free Recipe. Can be Gluten-free. 8 Ingredients.
These Fudgy Soft cookies are a favorite in my house these days. I got a jar of sunbutter to test out a few recipes for the book, to test nut-free options and list them with the recipes. The jar was still 3/4 full and was calling out to me.
I used my Almond butter oatmeal cookies as reference. These cookies come out thick, soft and are hearty cookies to snack or, for breakfast or dessert. Sunbutter can cause the cookies to have green centers as it reacts with baking soda. The lemon juice usually should neutralize it enough. But in case you do get green centers, that is normal and edible. You can see some dark green peaking through in some cookies in the pictures. The cookies need just 1 Bowl.
If you make these Cookies, please do leave a comment and rate the recipe!
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- Almond Butter Oatmeal Cookies. GF oil-free
- Ginger Tahini Cookies
- Best Chocolate Chip Cookies with coconut oil
Make the cookie dough and try not to eat it all.
Use a scoop or 1 tbsp measure to pack and place on parchment lined sheet.
Bake then cookie slam so the cookies can flatten and crack a bit. Cool for a few.
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Sunbutter Cookies
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup oil, organic safflower or canola
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1/4 cup smooth sunbutter or use almond butter, peanut butter or cashew butter
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp lemon juice
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon, optional
- 1/2 cup oats
- 3/4 cup (scant) cup flour, I use Spelt. Oat flour will work as well
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/3 cup vegan chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. In a bowl, mix the first 7 ingredients until smooth. It will take a minute.
- Add oats, 1/2 cup flour and baking soda and mix well. Add flour 1 tbsp at a time to make a loose sticky mixture.
- Fold in the chocolate chips. Use a scoop to place on parchment lined baking sheet.
- Bake for 10 to 11 minutes. Cookie slam the sheet once or twice so the cookies settle. Let cool completely. The cookies will be soft just baked, but will harden and set as they cool. Store on the counter for the day and covered for upto 4 days.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
These are seriously so good! I’ve made batches with sunbutter and almond butter and they work out just perfect every time!
Thanks!
Hii Richa,
I have a question about the recipe. Is the sunbutter just plain sunflower seed butter? Because I want to make it myself (the butter) but i find many recipes that include more ingredients then only sunflower seeds. So im not sure if i’m gonna but those things in or just go with only sunflower seeds. Thankyou!
Some of the nut butters or seed butters might have salt, sugar, oil added. I use organic sunbutter which has just roasted sunflower seeds or the no sugar sunbutter which has a bit of salt with the seeds. Some nut butters might have palm oil, milk powder or other milk ingredients. Check the label. The nut butters i use generally have just nuts listed in the ingredients and no other additions.
Thankyou for your quick answer! I eventually made it with unroasted sunflower seeds. It took a while but they taste super delicious! Next time I will toast the seeds before because I think I will love that taste more then the unroasted seeds haha. But these are definitly the best vegan cookies I made so far!
I made these in an AirBnB kitchen with no measuring tools but just judged all of the ingredients and texture by feel. And the biscuits are INCREDIBLE! I used a 4-nut butter and agave rather than sunbutter and maple, and the biscuits are lightly sweet, slightly crispy on the outside, and deliciously crumbly and soft on the inside. Perfection 🙂 Thank you so much for an apparently fail-proof recipe!
Thats so cool!
It didn’t look like the photos, but the cookies were the bomb and I don’t say that about 99% of recipes that come off the internet! I’m at altitude so I put a little less gf flour (mostly because it wasn’t clear when to add the 1/4 c difference between the ingredient list and the directions) and probably added a healthy amount of SF butter (used no sugar added kind). Used brown rice syrup instead of maple (what I had), olive oil for the oil and used white chocolate chips because it seemed to go. The olive oil does make it a little oilier but I don’t mind they turned out like the crisp thin cookies and the taste was absolutely great
And the smell was heavenly
And unlike some other recipes I saw the sunflower butter reaction did NOT turn the cookies green during baking- Probably bc of the lemon juice
💯
Hi Richa,
Will this batter freeze well? And if so, would you recommend making balls or squares and then freezing it?
i havent tried it, but generally cookie dough balls freeze well. You can pop them into the oven directly from the freezer. it might take additional 1-2 mins for the cookies to bake.
Oh wow, what a fabulous recipe! I’ve just made some, didn’t have chocolate chips so I used raw cashews. I ate alot of the batter raw, heehee! This recipe is a keeper for sure! Thanks Richa!
Awesome!
Have you made these with raisins instead of chocolate chips? If so, would you adjust sweeteners?
the maple makes the cookies just lightly sweet. The rest of the sweetness is from the chocolate chips. though it doesnt really need adjustment, you can try with 3 tbsp maple.
Hi Richa, thank you for your amazing recipes. I’ve tried some and they’re really amazing, easy to make but so gorgeous and tasty!
I wanted to ask you if there’s something I can use to replace oats. I’d love to try these biscuits but I can’t eat oats 🙁
Thanks a lot <3
Omit the oats and add a bit more flour until the mixture is soft and stiff batter like but not a dough.
Can I add more nut butter or coconut butter to make this oil free?
sure. coconut butter would be a better sub. With nut butter, the cookies will be fatter. Tasty any which way.
Oh, sunbutter! That sounds amazing. This mixture sounds like it’ll make for a great dessert for a family get together! As always, thank you for a great recipe!
Totally!
Have you made this with raisins instead of chocolate chips? If so, would you reduce the sweeteners?