Best Ever Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies! Low Fat Option, Zero Sugar
I realize this is a claim many proud recipe developer’s make, but I truly think these cookies are the best. Hear me out:
Ever heard of Chewy Chunk’s Ahoy? About six months after going vegan, I developed a junk food habit which included those processed, accidentally vegan cookies. Though delicious, they’re not exactly good for you. It’s actually been about 3 years since my obsession with them passed {without cravings}, but they’ve been on my mind for about two months now, torturing me. I know that if I bought them, I would eat at least six. Then Dallas would eat the rest. And then we’d both be mad at me for buying them. The soft, chewy, tender texture, the delicate sweet taste with a hint of vanilla, & just a touch of chocolate…I have tried making cookie bars, cookie oatmeal, and various other goodies, but nothing has squashed that craving. Nothing except these.
These cookies are made with the leftover almond pulp from homemade almond mylk. YES another recipe for your pulp! Of course, as always, you can substitute ground oats if you don’t have almond pulp {though you may need to add a wee bit more almond mylk}. These cookies have only heart-healthy fats from almonds, absolutely NO sugar, and are very easy to make. Their soft, chewy texture, gentle sweet taste, & just enough chocolate makes these cookies- dare I say?- better than Chewy Chunk’s Ahoy! Cravings? No more 
These are the perfect substitute!
The recipe came about after I received a package in the mail last Friday- a gift of stevia from NuNaturals that I had won on Dairy Free Betty‘s amazing blog. Not only was there a generous supply of stevia, but there was also a letter from the Vice President and a whole package of recipes to try out using the products! Amazing!
I have never bought or used liquid stevia before now, always opting for the powdered kind. That changes now. Though I love powdered stevia for recipes, it has a tendency to clump when wet, so it can be hard to stir into coffee or tea. Not the liquid stevia! It stirred right into my favourite chocolate almond tea perfectly. *swoon*
And in the cookies? Amazing! The liquid vanilla stevia gave the cookies just enough sweetness, with a delicate touch of vanilla. Loooove!! Even after adding 20 drops to the batter, the bottle still seems quite full. I’m so excited about this liquid stevia, and am loving the other flavours, too!
Want to WIN NuNaturals two NEW Liquid Stevia Flavours? Keep an eye out for tomorrow’s giveaway, featuring Lemon & Orange flavours! The featured recipe with the giveaway? Mini Chocolate Orange Cheesecakes
For now, I will leave you with this amazing chocolate chip cookie recipe! Enjoy, foodies.
From my kitchen to yours <3
| Best Ever Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies! |
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- 1 1/4 cups almond pulp
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 3/4 cup oat flour
- 1 tbsp stevia powder
- 1/2-1 tsp sea salt
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp xantham gum
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- 3/4 cup applesauce
- 3/4 cup almond mylk, unsweetened
- 20 drops liquid vanilla stevia
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- 1/2 cup dark or semi-sweet chocolate chips
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large mixing bowl, stir together the first eight ingredients with a spatula. Mix well.
- In a medium mixing bowl, stir together the three wet ingredients. Pour into the bowl with dry ingredients and mix batter well.
- Fold in the chocolate chips.
- For chewier cookies, place a silicone mat on a cookie sheet. Use an ice cream scoop to shape cookies and drop onto mat {or cookie sheet}. Distribute 12 cookies evenly, leaving space between them.
- Bake @350 for 13-15 minutes until tops of cookies are golden.
- Remove from oven and allow to sit on cookie sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to cooling rack. Allow to cool completely, about 10 minutes.
- Devour your delicious, chewy, oatmeal chocolate chip cookies!
peace, love, food <3
Char, xo
Categories: Desserts | 16 Comments
If these would work with rice milk…I could attempt them. Which would be friggen awesome. I say I don’t miss cakes and cookies and stuff, but I think it is straight up because they are usually way too much work.
Also, never used liquid stevia, let alone flavoured stevia!
if you do try these with substitutions, let me know! haha I know what you mean about baking being too much work sometimes. These come together really easy- just two mixing bowls & a spatula!
oh, I heard you, loud and clear!
these do sound amazing – adding almond pulp is genius. bookmarked, I will be trying!
and chocolate orange cheesecake? yum!
let me know if you do try them! chocolate orange cheesecake will be up tomorrow
I am SO excited for a healthy chewy Chips Ahoy recipe! Growing up they were my FAVOURITE cookie – I was never into the hard ones, always the chewy. Yay! I can’t wait to make these as soon as I walk in my door tonight hehe.
I just got sent NuNaturals’ newest flavours of liquid stevia – lemon and orange. I tried the lemon one in my ‘cake batter’ protein shake last night and made it into ‘lemon cake batter’ and it was HEAVENLY. Seriously, nothing artificial tasting about it. Amazing stuff – they were kind enough to include refills on all my other stevia products from them too and because it’s so expensive to buy NuNaturals as a Canadian resident, I was over the moon, I have never found better stevia!
yaayy!! let me know what you think
I saw your idea on your blog post with the smoothie! I’m totally going to try that. I know what you mean about no artificial taste- it tastes pure & real. I have the vanilla flavoured one in my americano misto right meow 
I’m so excited to play around with these flavours.
Wow, you got quite the score!! Exciting!! These sound so awesome (as always)
You’ll have to tell me how the vanilla is since I smashed it *sniffle*
noooooooooo I would be so heartbroken!!
I definitely recommend it- I have it in my americano misto this morning, it’s amazing in tea, and it’s perfect in these cookies! I’m hooked <3 but watch out for the mini cheesecakes tomorrow with the orange flavour! no need for the vanilla ;)
What an awesome cookie recipe!!
thanks, Alison!
i bet these taste amazing. i love almond in any form in cookies and hello these are chco chip! i am coming back for those mini cheesecakes!
chocolate chip are always the best cookies! cheesecakes will be up in a couple more hours…
What is xanthan gun and what does it do? If it is omitted from a recipe what would happen?
Hi Catherine! Xantham gum is a powdered binding agent that helps hold food products together in gluten-free baking. If you don’t use gluten-free flours, you can omit the xantham gum
2 tsp SALT?? That looks allot and it tasted very very salty to me.
Ack, I apologize! That’s probably a typo. Sorry your cookies were too salty
Thank you for letting me know!