It got to that time of week again – the day before food shopping. The cupboards were looking quite bare and Miranda and I were feeling very peckish. We’d finished off the last flapjack the day before and there were no munchies left in the house. There must be something I could make, I said to myself, but what? I had no flour left.
But I was determined.
What I did have was some rolled oats, some sugar, some olive oil, some cocoa and some sultanas.
*And this is what I did:
Weighed out 8 ounces of rolled oats and put them through the food processor to make a rough oat flour. Put the flour in a bowl, added 2 teaspoons of baking powder, 1 ounce of cocoa, a generous load of sultanas and 4 ounces of sugar, and mixed it all together thoroughly. Then I added 4 fluid ounces (120 ml) of olive oil and 5 tablespoons of water to the dry mixture and combined to form a very moist cookie mixture. I put heaped teaspoons of this onto lined baking sheets and baked at 180°c for 20 minutes.
Oh wow!
These are amazing!
Even better than when I make them with spelt.
So quick. So easy.
So beautifully crisp on the outside, moist on the inside, chocolatey, delicious, fair trade, organic,
vegan,
and gluten free 😀
* Adapted from the chocolate chip cookie recipe in the brilliant Unqualified Education
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Yummy!
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Thanks for the reblog 😀
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I made them yesterday & loved every bite: so delicious too! x
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They are yummy! I’ve recently made marble versions of them – half chocolate, half plain. Absolutely gorgeous 🙂
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I bet! x
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Thanks for the recipe.
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My pleasure 😀
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These look great. I am going to try this with some organic rice flour mixed with the oats.
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Ooh, that’s a good idea. Rice flour would make them hard and crunchy wouldn’t it? Let me know how it works out 🙂
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I keep getting tempted to do this! I make oatmeal cookies ALOT, and the cocoa powder is right next to the flours… always wondered – now I’ll give a try with confidence! Love your site and message. Hannah 🙂
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Thanks so much Hannah 😀 I hope you enjoy them
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I made these last weekend and they were delicious! I didn’t have any sultanas, though, so I used cranberries instead. Thanks for the recipe!
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My pleasure, so glad you enjoyed them. Thank you for the feedback 😀
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I’ve got to try this recipe. These sound delicious. Thanks for sharing!
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They are 🙂 hope you enjoy them 🙂
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I do this in reverse. Throw together something that tastes great because I need to use up the ingredients before they go bad.
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Good idea 🙂
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YUM! Your recipe sounds so delicious! I will definitely have to try these with gluten free oats. Oh, what are sultanas? I have not heard of those before.
Thank you for sharing your recipe!
Heidi
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Hi Heidi, yes they really are good 🙂 sultanas are a type of seedless raisin, I think they call them golden raisins in America 🙂
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Must…make…these… 😉
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Highly recommended – we’ve only got about 4 left now 😮
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Isn’t it wonderful when you realize you can have delicious cookies that are sort of healthy?
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Ooh yes, my favourite kind 😀
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Brilliant! I’m definitely going to remember this next time I run out of flour!
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Me too, in fact I’m going to make them again even when I’ve still got flour – they’re that good! 😀
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YUM!!!! 😀
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😀
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