Oatmeal Cookies & Vegan Nutella

March 03, 2019

Oatmeal Cookies & Vegan Nutella

I had a whole different post ready to publish today, but it's Sunday and honestly, all I wanna do is bake and eat all day, so I thought I'd share this recipe in case you felt the same way. These cookies were the very fist oatmeal cookies I ever baked and I never looked back or wanted to try a different recipe. They're perfect in every way, crispy around the edges, soft and goey in the middle, and if you rather have crispy cookies all the way through, you just need to bake them for a little while longer and use a little less dough in each one.

I have long lost the original recipe, and I've tweaked it a bit to better fit my own taste so I feel as though I've reached my perfect recipe that will keep me company for as long as I'm baking oatmeal cookies. I usually bake these with cinnamon and raisins (I can almost feel some of you shiver at the thought of raisins in your cookies, sorry) but this time I thought I'd change it up a bit. I recently made some vegan Nutella based on a recipe I saw on a magazine, but I wasn't really a fan of it, it wasn't smooth enough, the consistency was completely wrong and I could only taste the hazelnuts, even though I used the very best cocoa powder available. Maybe I'm just fussy with my Nutella, and if that's the case I'll leave the recipe right here for you to try it yourself.

Vegan Nutella
  • 6 pitted dates
  • 100 grams of roasted and peeled hazelnuts
  • 20 grams of cocoa powder
  • 12 tablespoons of water
Roast your hazelnuts in an oven at 200ºC for 5 minutes. Once out of the oven place them in a clean tea towel, cover them and roll them inside the tea towel until all the skin comes out of the hazelnut. Blitz them up in a food processor (something I don't have which kinda explains why the consistency was so wrong), add the pitted dates, cocoa powder and around 6 tablespoons of water to help it all go smoothly. Continue adding water until it reaches a consistency you're pleased with and then you're done. Store in a jar in the fridge for up to a week.
 
raw oatmeal cookies

I was really excited about having some form of healthier Nutella at home, and I know I can buy vegan ones now, but I just wanted to make something myself. Better luck next time, I guess. Even though I wasn't a big fan of the outcome, I didn't want to throw it away, I'm not one to waste food, so I though, why not hide them inside a cookie? And thus, my oatmeal raisin cookies got a little face lift.

Oatmeal Cookies
  • 1/2 cup of coconut oil 
  • 1 cup + 2 tablespoons of flour
  • 1 cup of sugar (you can add less if you want, these are quite sweet)
  • 1 cup of oatmeal
  • 1 teaspoon of baking powder
  • 1 tablespoon of cocoa powder
  • 1 large egg
  • a pinch of salt
  • around 6 teaspoons of Nutella
Cream the egg and oil until it becomes creamy and pale, add the sugar and mix it until the sugar starts to dissolve. Add the rest of the ingredients, making sure they're thoroughly mixed in without over-mixing them. Use around two tablespoons of the mixture for each cookie, making sure to keep a few centimetres between them as they do spread quite a lot. The dough is really sticky so don't try to roll balls with them, simply place a tablespoon of cookie dough in a lined tray, moisten your fingers with cold water and pat them down a bit to make space for the Nutella (wether you're using real one, the previous recipe or your own), use around 1/2 a teaspoon of Nutella for each cookie and then place another tablespoon of the cookie dough on top. With your fingers moistened make sure both halves of the cookies are well combined and completely covering the filling. You should end up with 12 large cookies.

Bake them in a preheated oven at 175ºC for 10 to 13 minutes. They won't look done, but they will continue to bake as they cool down. Let them cool a bit in the tray before using a spatula to move them to a cooling rack, otherwise they'll break. And there you go, the easiest cookies to bake and eat you'll ever find. 

oatmeal cookies with chocolate filling

If you've mastered the art of making your own Nutella, vegan or otherwise, let me know in the comments below, I still haven't given up on my dream.


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