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These delicious oatmeal date cookies are studded with medjool dates and have the perfect soft and chewy texture!
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups rolled old fashioned oats
- 3/4 cup + 3 Tablespoons oat flour
- 1/3 cup coconut sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 flax egg (1 tablespoon ground flaxseed with 3 tablespoons of water)
- 1/3 cup maple syrup
- 1/3 cup + 2 Tablespoons melted coconut oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/4 cup chopped Medjool dates
- 1/4 cup finely chopped walnuts
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350° F.
- In a small bowl whisk together ground flaxseed with water to make your flax egg and set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine the dry ingredients — oats, oat flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- In another bowl combine the wet ingredients — flaxseed egg, maple syrup, coconut oil and vanilla.
- Add the wet ingredients into the bowl with the dry ingredients and stir to combine. Gently stir in the chopped dates and walnuts.
- Place dough in the fridge to setup for 30 minutes (do not skip this step).
- Drop rounded tablespoons onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a baking stone. Make sure you space the cookies out because they tend to spread a bit. Bake for 10-12 minutes or until cookies are golden brown.
- Allow cookies to cool on the pan for 1-2 minutes then gently move to a wire rack and cool completely before eating or transferring to a storage container for later. Store cookies in the fridge for up to 5 days.
Notes
- You can buy oat flour or make your own by blending regular oats in a blender or food processor (affiliate link) until they create a fine flour.
- Recipe adapted from Oatmeal, Walnut, Dried Plum Cookies from The Kind Diet.
- Category: Cookies
- Method: Bake
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 110
- Sugar: 8g
- Fat: 5g
- Carbohydrates: 14g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 1g
Keywords: oatmeal date cookies
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I make these cookies all of the time and my family fights over them. They definitely are crumbly- but I love it. Especially over a bowl of vanilla ice cream. DROOL.
I am currently making them with dried plums/prunes because I didn’t have dates and I expect them to be just as good.
I always add cinnamon and a bit of coconut flakes 🙂
Ohh I’m sure they’ll be delicious with the dried plums/prunes instead of the dates. I’m so glad that these cookies are a hit with your family, Sarah! I really appreciate you coming back to leave a comment. <3
These look great. How do you measure your oat flour? I’ve noticed that it can change between recipes. 🙂
Man people in the comments sure are ornery!
Made these cookies several time and have decided they will always be my vegan base moving forward! The dates make it taste wonderful, I mince them so it gives a ‘brown sugar’ richness you’re more used to for a normal cookie.
The key is following the directions for the flax egg and refrigerating the dough. I’ve swapped the walnuts for pecans and chocolate chips and added dried fruit and chia seeds and everyone who eats them asks for the recipe.
Just read the directions and adjust from there 🙂
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Thank you so much, Nicole. I’m so happy to hear that you love these cookies as much as I do! Aren’t the dates amazing in the cookies?!?
Why would you tell someone to preheat the oven at the first step when you need to put the dough in the fridge for 30 mins? sorry.. that kinda annoyed me. Might want to change preheating the oven to the 5th step instead of the first. Anyways.. Thanks for the recipe.
I followed instructions precisely, however, it didn’t work out as expected. The cookie dough spread across the whole pan when baked, and when I tried to cut the “cookie pizza”, it was extremely crumbly and started breaking. I assume that there was no binding ingredient included, which would explain the result. It also tasted too sweet for my taste, but maybe that’s just me 🙂 no matter what, thank you for the recipe! I am determined to try them once again, only include more flour, egg or flax seeds to keep the cookies from breaking.
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I left the comment for these cookies on the page of the other oatmeal cookie recipe. Hopefully you can move it over to this recipe. These cookies are AMAZING!!!
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No worries, Jen. I’m so happy to hear that you enjoyed these cookies. 🙂
These cookies are delicious! I alter them slightly. I omit the coconut sugar, add a couple chia eggs to help bind and add some sunflower seeds. I also create a combo of oat, almond and buckwheat flour to add some variety. Everyone loves them! My 2 year old could eat the whole tray!
Just made these and WOW! They are AMAZING! I can’t get over how delicious they are! Like the other comments have said, my house smells so good now, too. I did find that the cookies did not hold together very well and many fell apart, so I’ve stuck them into the freezer in hopes of saving them. Nonetheless, I’ll definitely be making these again! Thank you for the great recipe!
These are pretty awesome! The first batch I made was a bit wet and did spread quit a bit. I used the same ingredients, except omitted the nuts since I have some nut allergies. And they were so sweet. I admit to eating alot of the batter…so good.
I made them again this morning and added an additional 1/2 cup of oat flour. So 1 1/4 altogether. I may have put in one too many dates on the last batch, so I only put in 2 instead of three this time. These did not spread onto the whole pan like last time and look alot more like cookies and have that wonderful flavor. Next time I might add a bit of cinnamon to entice my son into having a few.
Absolutely Delicious!!
I was searching through old recipes I’ve saved because I was in the mood to bake and wanted a sweet treat and came across this recipe. So glad I was reminded of it! I made it multiple times last fall and it is a winner for sure. They are making my apartment smell delightful 🙂 Thanks!
this recipe is awesome! i prefer to under bake the cookies so it stays a bit chewy in the middle. thanks for sharing 🙂
So glad that you like them, Stella. Enjoy the chewiness. 🙂
I just made these but my batter was extremely runny. They all joined together and made a huge pizza. It’s ok I am going to cut them into squares because they are so good! But I subbed almond flour for oat flour, could that be why they were runny?
same exact thing happened to me but they still tasted delicious
Oh no! I’m sorry they didn’t turn out as planned. Did you make any substitutions?
Disregard I discovered what it was. My honey use instead of sugar, my conversion was off. Thanks!
Ahh! I’m sorry you had issues with the recipe. I think it was probably a combination of using almond flour instead of oat flour and the honey. Hopefully they still tasted yummy. 🙂
I just made these. They’re incredible! Subbed cashews for walnuts.
Yay!!! Thank you so much for making them, Leah! Enjoy. <3
Delicious! These are cooling on the tray now.. minus three more than when they were taken out. I subbed 1/3 cup mashed banana (1 small ripe banana worked perfectly) for the maple syrup and 1-1 xylitol for the sugar. Other than that I followed the recipe exactly. It actually made 21 cookies for me and they’re simply amazing <3 I'm not a huge nut person, let alone walnuts… but this is just awesome. I had some left over from a loaf I'd done for Thanksgiving and decided to throw them in.
Watch out though, I could've eaten the whole thing of dough before even baking it!
Making these now but the dough seems dry and crumbly. What could I add??
I had the same problem . I mixed 1.5 T ground flaxseed with 3 T water let it sit for about five minutes and mixed it in at the end. I would probably mix it with the wet ingredients next time.
These look so good! They sound like the PERFECT cookie texture. And I don’t think anyone would complain about cookies for a Thanksgiving contribution 😉
I agree!! 🙂
These look like my kind of cookies! I love sweetening with dates because they’re basically nature’s candy. I love that you used oat flour! And of course cookies are good at all times of the year 🙂
Yes, I call dates nature’s candy as well. Sooo good and naturally sweet. 🙂
I’d add a tablespoon or two of extra coconut oil.