Oat Coconut Cookies

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This recipe is adapted from the Little Bird Goodness Oat Coconut Cookie Recipe. If you’re looking for a fantastic alternative that you can buy off the shelf, don’t go past the Little Bird Cookies. They taste great and are packed full of goodness.

Oat Cocnut Cookies

Makes 12 cookies

Ingredients:

1/3 cup of ground flaxseed or LSA or Ceres Superseed Blend

1 1/2 cups of rolled oats

1 cup of desicated coconut

1 cup of coconut sugar

2 pinches of sea salt

2 tsp of ground cinammon

1 cup of pitted dates

2T melted coconut butter

1/3 cup of melted extra virgin coconut oil

1 tsp vanilla extract

3/4 cup of filtered water

OPTIONAL:

Add 1/3 cup of dark chocolate chip or more if you wish, to make a choc chip version

Add 1/3 cup of dried apricots or raisins or more if you wish to make a fruit oat version

Directions:

  1. Preheat the oven to 180degrees celcius.

  2. Grind 1/2 cup of the oats into a flour. Do this by placing them in a high speed blender or food processor. If you only have whole flaxseeds you can also grind these into a flour using a blender or food processor.

  3. In a bowl combine the ground flaxseed or LSA or super seed blend with the oat flour you just made and the remaining rolled oats. Add the desicated coconut, coconut sugar, salt, fennel and cinnamon and mix together.

  4. In a food processor or blender process the dates til they form a paste (add some water if necessary). Then add the melted coconut butter and coconut oil and pulse. Once combined add the vanilla extract and water and pulse a few more times. Don’t worry if you have a few chunks of dates in there.

  5. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix with a spoon until they are well combined.

  6. If you wish to add choc chips or dried fruit, cut them small and add them at this point.

  7. Take 1 dessert spoon of dough and roll it into a ball. Place it on a lined baking try and press it down to form round cookies that are approximately 5mm thick.

  8. Bake the cookies for 25mins. Take them out of the oven and leave to cool.

  9. You can store these cookies in an airtight container for several weeks.