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Steel Cut Oats Cookies

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These steel cut oats cookies are such a delicious snack. They’re also healthy enough to eat for breakfast! Who can resist oatmeal in a cookie?

These steel cut oats cookies are such a delicious snack. They’re also healthy enough to eat for breakfast!

Oatmeal cookies are a classic healthier dessert. Oats are a whole grain, which is a rare feature in cookies.

I usually use rolled oats to make oatmeal cookies, but I recently found myself wondering, “Can I use steel cut oats in cookies?”

We were out of rolled oats, but we had steel cut oats in our cabinet. This led to some research and several experimental batches. I discovered that yes, not only can you make cookies with steel cut oats, but they’re arguably more delicious than the rolled oat version.

These steel cut oatmeal cookies are so easy to make!

Steel Cut Oatmeal Cookie Tips

When making cookies with steel cut oats, you have two options. You can use traditional Irish oats, or you can use the quick-cooking variety.

For an easy batch of cookies, use raw “instant” or “quick-cooking” steel cut oats. These are broken down into smaller pieces than traditional Irish oats, so they give the cookies a nice texture.

Steel cut oats cookies, with and without cooked oats

Cooked traditional oats are in the cookie on the left, and raw quick cooking oats are in the cookie on the right.

If you’re using traditional steel cut oats, you’ll want to cook them first, just like when you’re making oatmeal. They’re a bit too hard when baked into a cookie in their raw form, which leads to a lot of extra chewing. To use cooked oats, simply substitute one cup of cooked oatmeal for the instant raw oats listed in this recipe, and add an extra half cup of flour (or more as needed to achieve a non-runny dough consistency).

For the chocolate chips, I like Enjoy Life allergy-friendly chocolate. These chips come in a variety of sizes.

Whether you make them with quick-cooking or traditional oats, these cookies have a delicious flavor and texture. Watch this video to see the simple process behind these steel cut oats cookies:

These steel cut oats cookies are such a delicious snack. They’re also healthy enough to eat for breakfast!

Steel Cut Oats Cookies

These steel cut oats cookies are such a delicious snack. ($.27 per cookie)
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Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Cookies
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes
Servings: 40
Calories: 155
Author: Annemarie Rossi

Ingredients

  • 2 cups gluten free flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 eggs
  • 2/3 cup melted coconut oil
  • 1 1/4 cup pure maple syrup
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 1/4 cups instant steel cut oats* (uncooked)
  • 1 1/4 cups chocolate chips
  • 1/2 cup diced walnuts optional

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
  • In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
  • In a large bowl, mix together the eggs, coconut oil, maple syrup, and vanilla. Add the flour mixture, and mix to combine. Then stir in the quick cooking oats, chocolate chips, and walnuts.
  • Use a cookie scoop or tablespoon to portion out the dough onto a cookie sheet (9 cookies per sheet). Bake for about 10 minutes, or until the cookies are set and they're beginning to turn brown.
  • Transfer the cookies to a wire rack to cool. Store in an airtight container for up to 4 days, or freeze for later.

Notes

If you’re using traditional steel cut oats (not quick cooking), you’ll want to cook them first, just like when you’re making oatmeal. To use cooked oats, simply substitute one cup of cooked oatmeal for the instant raw oats listed in the recipe, and add an extra half cup of flour (or more as needed to achieve a non-runny dough consistency).

Nutrition

Calories: 155kcal
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Steel Cut Oats Cookies Price Breakdown

This recipe costs a total of $10.95 to make, or $.27 per cookie. Try these steel cut oatmeal cookies for a delicious, healthy treat.

In case you only have rolled oats on hand, here’s a more traditional oatmeal cookie recipe.

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Comments

  1. what a healthy recipe. I am vegan and will try flax eggs and sugar-free lakanto maple syrup. Question: after cooking traditional steel cut oats – do you discard residual liquid? I need to add 4 cups water to 1 cup oats and usually after cooking there is a gel-like or watery liquid with the cooked oats.

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  4. Just made this recipe and I’m really impressed! I used white chocolate and semi-sweet chocolate morsels and raisins, as well as gluten-free cassava flour in place of wheat flour. I cooked Quaker steel-cut oats before adding to the batter. It took mine about 12-13 minutes to bake. They came out just like the pictures with a cake-like texture in the middle. Very yummy!

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  5. I guess I’m confused, how much cooked steel cuts vs uncooked you add in, as just reading off the recipe and wading through the text, I wasn’t sure?

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    • If you’re using uncooked instant steel cut oats, use 1 1/4 cups as stated in the recipe card. If you want to substitute cooked oats, use 1 cup of cooked oats, and add an extra 1/2 cup of flour to get the right cookie dough consistency. Please let me know if that clarifies it for you.

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  6. I accidentally mixed the batter before I read the recipe notes….is there any saving the batter if I didn’t cook the traditional steel cut oats?

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  13. I love oatmeal cookies and these look perfect! I also appreciate you listing the price of your recipes. That’s such a helpful tool when choosing which recipes to make!

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  19. Such a brilliant idea for leftover steel cut oats. And who doesn’t love an oatmeal cookie!?! Pinning to make soon…

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