Name: Easy Vegan No Bake Cookies
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 2 Cups Old Fashioned Oats; 2 Tbsp Chia Seeds; 1/4 tsp Himalayan Pink Salt; 1/3 Cup Maple Syrup; 1/4 Cup Oat Milk (Sub any plant milk); 1/4 Cup Coconut Oil; 2 Tbsp Unsweetened Cacao Powder; 2 Tbsp Vegan Chocolate (optional); 1/2 Cup Peanut Butter

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You will love how easy these vegan no bake cookies are to make! If you love the classic combo of chocolate and peanut butter, these cookies are for you. Above all, these cookies will give you the satisfaction of eating a Reese’s peanut butter cup, but in a way healthier fashion.

These cookies are a family favorite, and are ready in under 30 minutes. No need for an oven here. These cookies will be done straight on the stovetop! Let’s no-bake!

Healthy Ingredients for No Bake Cookies

This recipe is so simple, yet much healthier than most traditional cookies. This recipe involves no knives, heavy equipment, or technical work. Regular cookies, baked from scratch, can be tough to perfect. Dealing with exact amounts, precise mixing instructions, exact baking temperatures and times, can be a lot to handle. But this recipe was made to bypass all of those details, while producing a tasty and healthy cookie.

To make these cookies we used chia, maple, peanut butter, coconut oil, cacao powder, soy milk, and rolled oats. The oats are definitely the star of this recipe.

Not only are oats a great ingredient for healthy desserts, but they’re very nutritionally valuable. Oats are…

High in protein
Rich in fiber
Contain many vitamins and minerals
Contain antioxidants
Can help lower cholesterol
Can help lower blood sugar levels

Substitutions

We love cooking, but do our best to make recipes as healthy as possible. We wanted to make a cookie that was flour free, gluten free and pretty straightforward to make. We’ve made this recipe numerous times, always so yummy. We’ve also experimented with different nut butters to see how the cookie would turn out.

I know what you’re thinking, almond butter sounds like the perfect substitute for peanut butter. I mean just the name, chocolate almond butter and chia cookies… sounds amazing. Well here’s what we found out, peanut butter has typically more natural oils in comparison to almond butter.

When we substituted out the peanut butter for almond butter the cookies were definitely delicious but definitely not as moist as the peanut butter cookies. This also could have just been the specific brand of almond butter we used.

Also another great nut butter to try instead of peanut butter, is sunflower seed butter (also known as sunbutter). It’s unbelievably creamy, and really similar to peanut butter. In comparison to almond butter, sunflower butter has a more oily consistency.

To have moist cookies, oil in this recipe is key since there’s no added butter. This makes it the perfect substitute for peanut butter. Hmm Chocolate chia Sunbutter cookies have got a pretty nice ring to it as well. Sounds like a great energizing cookie for a morning snack.

If you try out this recipe with a different type of nut butter be sure to lettuce know in the comments below how your cookies came out!

Fun Vegan Cookies

It’s always so fun making cookies, it really doesn’t matter what kind of cookie you’re making. I’ve gotta say though, these are definitely my favorite cookies to shape. It’s no secret that we all love to “taste test” cookie dough. Luckily this recipe contains no animal products, so no egg, aka no risk of salmonella.

Also, no cholesterol or animal cruelty, woohoo! You are not likely to get poisoned from any of these ingredients, unless you did not wash your hands before cooking and well…. that is another tangent. So wash your hands and lettuce show you how to make these cookies!

Pro Tip

To shape these cookies we used a cookie scooper. If you don’t have one feel free to use your hands. After years of working in the restaurant industry, it’s only second nature for us to produce aesthetically pleasing food. Cookie scoopers ensure each cookie is about the same weight and size. We like to keep our cooking tools clean and our cookies uniform. Even if we are making them at home and going to devour them right away.

After using the cookie scooper to make small cookie balls, use your hands to form the cookies. This recipe from start to finish is definitely kid friendly. Between you and me, this is probably going to be the best part: Using your hands and fingers begin to form the cookies. We personally made circular traditional cookies but making cookie bars would definitely be an option too. Make fun shapes with the kids, for a cute and creative learning project.

After the cookies are formed it’s time to pop them in the freezer. To be fully honest with you, the waiting and the patience needed to let those Chocolate peanut butter chia cookies firm up, is the hardest part of this recipe.

While the cookies are going through their transformation in the freezer this is the best time to clean up your kitchen. Yup, I said it. Clean up time! Although it’s not always the fun part of the project, remember that cleaning is also part of your mise en place. Everything must go to its proper place.
Because eating cookies in a clean kitchen also feels better.

Your delicious cookies will probably be ready by the time the cleaning is over. Not a bad reward, huh?

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Peace,
Luna & Nate