Oat & Chia Energy Cookie
If you are looking for a sweet treat, need a quick and healthy snack post-workout or have run out of ideas for your kids lunches, try this energy cookie!
Made with natural sweeteners raw honey and maple syrup and healthy fats chia seeds, coconut oil and pumpkin seed butter, you will love the taste as much as your body loves the fuel.
(Makes 16)
Ingredients:
2 tbsp pumpkin seed butter
1/4 cup coconut oil (melted)
1/8 cup raw honey (I used avocado blossom)
1/8 cup pure maple syrup
1 chia egg (1 tbsp chia seeds + 3 tbsp water) Let sit for 5 minutes before adding
1 cup organic quick cook steel cut oats (I used Nature’s Path)
1/2 cup millet flour
1/4 tsp sea salt
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp baking powder
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 F
- Prepare a baking pan with unbleached parchment paper
- Mix wet ingredients together in a medium bowl: pumpkin seed butter, honey, maple syrup, coconut oil, chia egg
- Mix dry ingredients in a separate bowl: steel cut quick oats, millet flour, baking soda, baking powder, sea salt
- Mix wet and dry ingredients together and mix
- Add 1 tbsp of batter (leaving enough space in between as they spread) and shape into round cookies
- Bake on the middle rack for 12-14 minutes or until golden brown
- Let cool for 10 minutes (cookies will crumble when hot)
- ENJOY!
