Eggless Flourless Only Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cookies
Want to make flour-less cookies? No worries! Try this no flour oatmeal and peanut butter cookies and avoid empty carbs from all-purpose flour. If you want to make it more healthy omit the M&Ms and chocolate chips and just add raisins or any other dried fruits of your choice.
Ingredients
- 1 and ½ cups peanut butter
- ½ cup butter, softened
- ¾ cup white sugar
- ¾ cup coconut palm sugar
- 4 teaspoons egg replacer powder (like Ener-G)
- ½ cup water (preferably lukewarm)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 5 and ½ cups quick cooking oats (See My Notes)
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- ½ cup mini chocolate chips
- ½ cup mini M&Ms
- ½ cup dried cranberries
Substitutions:
- peanut butter - any other nut/seed butter
- butter - vegan alternatives
- coconut palm sugar - brown sugar
- egg replacer - ground flax seed
Instructions
- Preheat oven at 350F/180C for 15 minutes.
- Whisk together egg replacer powder and water together and set aside
- In a large bowl cream together the butters and sugars until light and creamy.
- Mix in the egg replacer mixture and vanilla extract; beat well again.
- Now stir in the oats and baking soda; mix well
- Add the chocolate chips, M&Ms and the cranberries too
- Drop in a tablespoon of dough on an ungreased baking sheet, in inch apart. I flattened the dough before putting it in the oven.
- Bake for 12-14 minutes. I took out mine after 12 minutes itself.
- Remove from the oven and cool the baking sheet on a wire rack for at least 5 minutes before removing the cookies from the sheet. Then transfer the cookies to the wire rack directly and let it cool completely before storing it in an airtight container.
Notes
- The original recipe used 4 and ½ cups of oats. I felt the batter was not thick enough even after adding the chocolate chips and M&Ms. So added another ½ cup of oats. Also the original recipe had used 1 cup of chocolate chips and M&Ms each. I wanted to cut it back to ½ cup each and used ½ cup of dried cranberries and oats each to make up for the 2 cups measurement.
- Test baked 3 cookies first without flattening the dough. The cookies did not spread at all. It just stayed as one big lump. So for the remaining cookies, rolled them into nice rounds and flattened it to about 1 cm thickness. The cookies came out perfect.
- I'm assuming that if you use all chocolate chips and M&Ms without adding dried cranberries maybe the cookies will stay crisp for a longer time. Or maybe some nuts instead of the dried fruit. Will have to try and see.
