These apple cinnamon oatmeal cookies are a total classic. They taste like a delicious cross between oatmeal raisin cookies and apple crumble. And they're surprisingly crispy yet soft at the same time in all the right ways.
If you like a good breakfast cookie, you'll be in for a real treat with these chunky apple cinnamon cookies. Also, your house will smell absolutely amazing when they bake :) -- it's like dessert and aromatherapy all in one!
This recipe is my husband's favorite, and one of my personal favorites to date. The texture is just perfect, and they're so full of flavor, with ingredients that are quite simple. Oats, apple chips, raisins, cinnamon, maple syrup, and salt.
And of course they're gluten-free, vegan, refined sugar-free, and made with no oil added.
Quick note on the recipe: I linked to the specific oats and apple chips I used as I think they're what makes these cookies, but of course just try to find whatever product is closest to that if these brands are not available where you are.
Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies
Prep Time: 15 minutes- Cook Time: 12 minutes
- Total Time: 27 minutes
Yield: 8 cookies
Category: Cookies
Method: Baked
Cuisine: Dessert, Vegan, Gluten-Free
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A gluten-free vegan cookie made with apples, cinnamon, oatmeal, and raisins. This recipe is also refined sugar-free and oil-free.
Ingredients
- ¾ cup rolled oats (gluten-free)
- 30 gr dried apple chips*
- ¼ cup raisins
- 3 tbsp maple syrup
- 2 tbsp natural creamy cashew butter
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ⅛ tsp salt
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 375F. Line a cookie tray with some parchment paper and set aside.
- Add all ingredients to a food processor and process briefly to combine everything together.
- Use a small cookie scoop, or simply gather about 1 ½ tablespoon of the mixture with a spoon and roll into a ball with your hands, then flatten into a disk, evening out the edges as needed. Place on the prepared cookie sheet, and repeat with remaining dough (you should get about 8 cookies). Space them out roughly an inch apart. Then try to flatten them some more with your fingers.
- Bake in a pre-heated oven for approximately 12 minutes until they are nicely browned. Then remove and cool the tray on a cooling rack for about 10 mins (or more). Enjoy!
Notes
*The apple chips I used here are from Bare. Note that they're a super crisp and crunchy kind, not soft and chewy apple chip variety. This is important for the crisper consistency of the cookies. I weighed them because they're very large chips, so it's hard to measure in cups, but 30 gr equals a very loosely packed ¾ cup if that measurement is easier.
P.S. If you're looking for other cookie recipes, check this collection of the best vegan & gluten-free cookies from the blog.
This has become one of my favourites and I love that the recipe is simple enough to memorize. We have a dehydrator so we almost always have apple chips on hand. Any quick subs if we don’t? Thank you for such a great recipe.
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Glad to hear you're enjoying these, Rachel! :) I haven't tried, but I think anything similar could work for a different flavor, like pear chips, or thin coconut chips, etc.