This healthy plant-based Gluten-Free Vegan Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies recipe is an easy flourless cookie recipe made with clean, real food ingredients that you can feel good about eating. You’ll love how they’re made without eggs, butter, white flour or white sugar! { Plant-Based | Vegan | Gluten-Free | Dairy-Free | Egg-Free | Soy-Free | Flourless | Grain-Free | No Refined Sugar }
Prepare a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Set aside.
Prepare the flax egg:
Add all ingredients for the flax egg to a small bowl and whisk until well combined. Set aside.
Prepare the cookies:
Add all the ingredients for the cookies to a medium-sized mixing bowl.
Re-whisk the flax egg and add to the mixing bowl with the cookie ingredients.
Stir until well combined and all ingredients are evenly distributed.
Add the chocolate chip add-in to the mixture and stir until they are evenly distributed.
Using a 1 1/2-inch cookie scoop, take out a scoop at a time and place it on the prepared cookie sheet. If you don't have a cookie scoop, you can use a regular spoon and take out about 1 tablespoon at a time.
Flatten out the cookies into a 2-inch round shape.
Bake at 350 degrees for approximately 18-20 minutes, or until they are slightly golden.
Allow the cookies to cool completely before removing them from the cookie pan or they will fall apart.
Store in an air-tight BPA-free container.
Notes
Oat Flour. If you don’t have oat flour on hand, not to worry. You can easily make oat flour by using organic gluten-free quick rolled oats and putting them into a Vitamix and blending until the oats turn into a flour. This is the method I use and can’t remember the last time I actually purchased a bag of oat flour.Quick Rolled Oats. You’ll want to make sure you use “gluten-free” quick rolled oats if you need the cookies to be gluten-free. I haven’t tested the recipe using any other variety of oats so I don’t know if another kind of oats would work.Coconut Sugar. Feel free to substitute with organic brown sugar or your favorite organic granular sweetener.Coconut Oil. I don’t care for the flavor or smell of unrefined coconut oil so I used organic refined coconut oil which does not have a coconut flavor or coconut smell. Keep in mind that if you use unrefined coconut oil it could change the flavor of the cookies.Tapioca Flour. I added this ingredient to give the cookies a crispy texture. I haven’t tested them without it.Tahini. I added this to add a little healthy fat to the cookies but you could omit it if you prefer.Vanilla Bean Powder. You can substitute with 100% pure organic vanilla extract in the same amount, or alcohol-free vanilla extract if you need them to be Medical Medium compliant.Chocolate Chips. I like to use Enjoy Life semi-sweet chocolate chips but you will need to use organic bittersweet 85% cacao chocolate chips if you need them to be 100% Medical Medium compliant.