Healthy Power Cookies
 
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Serves: 26 cookies
Ingredients
  • 1 cup oats
  • 1 cup oat flour *
  • ½ cup gluten free flour blend **
  • 3 tbsp millet
  • 2½ tbsp flax seeds
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • ½ cup pumpkin seeds
  • ¼ cup unsweetened shredded coconut
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 cup chocolate chips or cacao nibs
  • ½ cup coconut oil, melted
  • ½ cup maple syrup
  • 1 heaping cup, grated zucchini
  • finishing salt (optional)
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a cooking sheet with parchment paper.
  2. Stir together dry ingredients: oats, oat flour, flour blend, millet, flax, cinnamon, baking powder, pumpkin seeds, coconut and salt.
  3. Stir in chocolate chips.
  4. In a separate bowl, combine coconut oil, maple syrup and zucchini.
  5. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients.
  6. Let sit for 5 minutes and then use cookie scooper to place rounds on cookie sheet.
  7. Add sprinkle of finishing salt if you choose.
  8. Bake 8-10 minutes.
  9. Let cool 5 minutes before removing to cooling rack.
Prep
* oat flour is simple to make. Simply blend oats in a blender/magic bullet
** I used a flour blend that contained xanthan gum as it has binding properties to keep my cookies from being crumbly.
Be sure to not over bake them or they will harden quickly.
Recipe by Sugar Plum Sisters at https://sugarplumsisters.com/2016/10/healthy-power-cookies/