All-Oat Oatmeal Cookies

Recipe Created By: T.

3 cups oats (quick or old-fashioned)

1 cup oat flour

1 tsp salt

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/8 tsp xanthan gum

3/4 cup oil or lard

1 1/2 cups turbinado sugar

1 egg or replacer (see below)

1/4 cup water

I also make these with 2 cups oats, 1 cup brown rice flour and 1 c oat flour, which makes the cookie slightly more cakey.

If you don’t have xanthan gum, you can skip it but the cookies will be crumbly.

If you don’t have rice flour you can use all oat flour. Sometimes I use a mix of raw sugar and white sugar. You can add spices like cinnamon if those are ok.

Your sugar, flour and oats are the base and from there you can experiment with different combinations and textures.

Less oats and more flour will make more of a cake like mix, more oats makes for a crunchier mix. I have made these as cookies, a bar cookie and in muffin tins as “cupcakes”.

Turbinado sugar can be replaced with 1 cup white sugar + 1/2 cup brown sugar.

Egg can be replaced with 1/2 banana, or 1/2 cup applesauce, or 1/2 cup canned pumpkin. T prefers using applesauce as the egg replacer. Bananas make a sweeter cookie with a distinct banana taste.

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