Healthy Cookies

Name: Healthy Cookies
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 20
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: ¼ cup Coconut (¼ cup shredded unsweetened coconut); 2 cup Rolled Oat (2 cups Old Fashioned oats); 1 cup Medjool Date (1 cup Medjool dates*); ½ cup Cashew Butter (½ cup cashew butter (or other nut butter or sunflower butter)); 2 tsp Vanilla (2 teaspoons vanilla); ¼ tsp Kosher Salt (¼ teaspoon kosher salt); 1 piece Egg (1 egg); ¼ cup Greek Yogurt (¼ cup plain or Greek yogurt); ½ tsp Bicarbonate of Soda (½ teaspoon baking soda); 1 tsp Cinnamon (1 teaspoon cinnamon); ¼ cup Chocolate Chip (¼ cup mini chocolate chips (or more if desired**), plus 1 tablespoon for topping)

Healthy cookies made with oats, dates, cashew butter, and toasted coconut, baked until golden.

30 minAmerican

Servings20

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Steps

1Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
2Toast the coconut: Place the coconut in a small dry skillet (no oil) over medium heat. Heat, shaking the pan and stirring often with a wooden spoon, until the coconut is fragrant and golden brown, about 3 minutes. Stay at the stove because the coconut can easily burn! Remove immediately from the heat and transfer to a plate to stop the cooking.
3Place 1 cup of the Old Fashioned oats in a food processor and process until finely ground into a flour. Remove to a bowl. (If you prefer, you can substitute 1 cup oat flour to eliminate this step.)
4Remove the pits from the Medjool dates. Add them to the food processor with the nut butter, vanilla and salt. Process crumbly and fully combined, stopping and scraping the bowl once.
5Add the egg and yogurt and pulse until combined.
6Add the processed oat flour, remaining 1 cup whole oats, baking soda, and cinnamon and pulse until a thick dough forms. Stir in the toasted coconut and chocolate chips with a spatula.
7Make 20 small balls and place them on a parchment-lined cookie sheet: it’s easiest using a 1 ½ tablespoon / size 40 cookie scoop, if you have it. For a flatter cookie, gently press down with your hand (we left them as the domed of the cookie scoop). Gently press in the remaining 1 tablespoon mini chocolate chips to the tops of the cookies.
8Bake 12 to 15 minutes until golden brown, rotating the pan after 7 minutes. Allow to cool on a baking rack. To store, place the cookies in a sealed container lined with paper towels between the cookies at room temperature for up to 1 week, or refrigerate for up to 2 weeks.