Oatmeal, coconut and chocolate cookies easy recipe
These Healthy homemade oat and coconut cookies are great to do with young children, they are delicious and super easy to make!
Why are they Healthy
These soft cookies are chewy on the inside and crunchy on the outside. The main ingredient is oatmeal, so they have all the nutritional goodness of the oats. I like using wholemeal flour to add a bit more nutrients, and with the addition of the love you put when making these oat and coconut cookies from scratch, make them healthier than any other cookies you can buy! Plus, it is another great activity to do with children!
One of my favourite things:
I think cooking from scratch with children is one of the best ways to connect children with what it takes to bring food to our table. Experimenting with how food comes together, the part that every ingredient takes in the making of food, and where the ingredients come from.
For example, we keep a couple of hens, and there are times of the year when we have lots of eggs and some others when is only some days we have eggs, so we only make pancakes for breakfast on the days we have enough eggs. And I believe it teaches children many things.
The way we end up making this delicious oat and coconut cookies is a nice little story.
Once we bought a couple of coconuts, and after making the holes for drinking the coconut milk and then we tried to crack them in half without breaking them (that was a challenge!). We took all the coconuts out because we were going to use the coconut shells as little bowls for their outdoor mud cooking area. So we cut the coconut into small pieces and dried them in the oven, and then put them in the food processor, and we made our own desiccated shredded coconut! And the next day we decided to make oat cookies with this coconut!
The Recipe:
Oat and coconut cookies recipe:
Makes 14-16 cookies
Ingredients
- 75 grams of butter
- 50 grams of muscovado sugar
- 1 egg
- 50 grams of self-raising wholemeal flour
- 50 grams of oats
- 25 grams of desiccated coconut
- A handful of chocolate chunks or chocolate chips
How to Make them:
- Turn on the oven to 180 degrees centigrade.
- Prepare the baking sheet by using coconut oil (or any other oil you have) or butter, or line it with parchment paper.
- In a medium bowl, mix the butter and the sugar until it becomes a creamy texture.
- Break the eggs into the mix and mix.
- Add the Flour to the mix, oats and coconut.
- With a whisker or a wooden spoon mix until you integrate all the ingredients.
- Now you can add the chocolate chips if using.And mix.
- The best way to form the cookies is with your hands. Take a tbsp of cookie dough and scoop it onto the cookie sheet or oven tray.
- Press them a little bit with your hands or a teaspoon to flatten them a little.
- Cook for 8-10 minutes
- Cool on a cooling rack
- And enjoy!
- If there is any left keep them in a cookie jar or airtight container, at room temperature.
Tips:
To oil the baking tray, add a little drop and spread it with a kitchen paper towel.
You can use chocolate chips or dark chocolate chunks, which are my personal preference!
Replace the Muscovado sugar with white sugar or granulated sugar.
You can replace the self-raising wholemeal flour, for plain wholemeal flour and add a tsp of baking powder.
Oat and Coconut Cookies
Equipment
- 1 bowl medium
- 1 Whisker
- 1 baking tray
- baking paper optional
Ingredients
- 75 grams butter soft
- 50 grams sugar muscovado
- 1 egg
- 50 grams self-raising Flour wholemeal
- 50 grams rolled oats
- 25 grams coconut
- 25 grams chocolate chips or chunks or a handful or two
Instructions
- Turn on the oven to 180 degrees centigrade. Prepare the baking sheet by using coconut oil (or any other oil you have) or butter, or line it with parchment paper.
- In a medium bowl, mix the butter and the Sugar, Until it becomes creamy textured. Add the egg and mix.Add the to the mix flour, oats and coconut.
- With a Whisker or a wooden spoon, mix until you integrate all the ingredients. Add the chocolate chips if using. And mix.
- The best way to form the cookies is with your hands. Take a tbsp of cookie dough and scoop it onto the cookie sheet or oven tray. Press them a little bit with your hands or a teaspoon to flatten them a little.
- Cook for 8-10 minutes, cool on a cooling rack and enjoy! If there is any left, keep it in a cookie jar or an airtight container, at room temperature.
- Tips:To oil the baking tray, add a little drop of oil and spread it with kitchen paper.You can use chocolate chips or dark chocolate chunks, which are my personal preference!You can replace the Muscovado sugar with white sugar or granulated sugar.You can replace the self-raising wholemeal flour, with plain wholemeal flour and add a tsp of baking powder.
