Healthy Steel Cut Oatmeal Cookies

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Healthy Steel Cut Oatmeal Cookies

Written by RuthieB

Saturday, 27 September 2008 00:00

healthy steel cut oatmeal cookie

This is a recipe I have come up with for steel cut oatmeal, walnut and date cookies. They are made with applesause instead of oil or butter and I use whole grain flour. They also are made with either raw sugar (very little) or brown sugar Splenda, depending on your personal preference. Everyone that has tried them loves them and they are so healthy.

Healthy Steel Cut Oatmeal Cookies

Ingredients:

1 cup raw turbinado sugar (OR 1/2 cup brown sugar Splenda)
1 cup eggbeaters (OR 4 eggs)
2 cups applesauce (OR 1 ½ cups butter)
2 tsp. vanilla
3 cups whole grain flour
4 cups Steel cut Oats
1 tsp. salt
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
4 heaping tsp. cinnamon
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 1/2 cups chopped dates, raisins, craisins, choc. chips or diced apples

Preparation:

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees
No mixer needed! Just a big spoon or spatula!
Mix applesauce, eggbeaters, vanilla and sugar together in bowl to dissolve sugar.
Add dry ingredients. Stir in dates or raisins etc, and nuts.
Spray cookie sheets with non-stick spray.
Drop by spoonfuls on cookie sheets and bake 15 minutes at 375 degrees.
Cool and store in zip lock or air-tight container.
Refrigerate or Freeze for longer storage.

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Comments (24)

Thank you for sharing this recipe RuthieB! I look forward to trying them.

These look outstanding. Oatmeal cookies are my favorite and I am going to have to give these a try.

wow, delish! I'll be giving these a try for sure :)

I just made these, and they are better than expected!!

we found these inedible because the steel cut oats were as hard as ground-up pebbles.

Hi Ellen. I'm sorry about your experience. Let's hope RuthieB will drop by to comment. I have not tried them yet myself.

Ellen, I am so sorry your cookies came out poorly! I have made these with Coach's Oats (a modified steel cut oat) as well as regular steel cut oats. But I always use the applesauce instead of the butter. Did you use butter or applesauce? Maybe the oats need the moisture from the applesauce. However, on the Coach's Oats bag, they have a recipe for their oatmeal cookies which uses butter, so I am baffled. Are you sure you used Steel cut Oats and not Groats? Groats are much thicker and more coarse and take much longer to cook, even prepared as cereal. I would love to know if any of this has helped find the answer as to why they didn't come out. So sorry!

I was just wondering what version of my recipe that Erica used, since her cookies came out well. Erica, can you let Ellen know if you used butter or applesauce? And what brand of steel cut oats did you use? Irish oatmeal is very coarse, more of a groat type of grain, so I believe it too would not be suitable for cookies. Stick with the true steel cut oats, or I highly recommend Coach's Oats if they are available in your area. Costco also carries.

Just wondering if you ever heard back from Ellen about whether she used Groats instead of steel-cut oats. I don't see a posting, so I am assuming you did not. I have made these a dozen times and never had the oats be hard. I am so curious as to what could have gone wrong. And Erica's came out well also. It is a mystery...........

Hi. I just made these with steel cut (the real deal) oats, eggs and applesauce. I halved the recipe. Anyway, they came out great - our 19 mo. old came back for more! The oats are a little on the crunchy side, but mainly chewy and definitely not hard or inedible. I used raisins and pecans. Next time I'll try with chocolate chips. Thank you!

We made these and they are great.

Thank you for sharing this recipe! I just made these treats and they came out hearty and yummy. My 11 yo son keeps sneaking them! We did make a few modifications. We used McCann's quick and easy Irish Steel Cut Oats and soaked them in the called for applesauce while we gathered the other ingredients. That worked well. We used a combination of oat, barley, and spelt flours for the whole grain flour and allowed the measuring cup to have a little extra mounded on top otherwise the mix would have been too wet. (we always do this when substituting for wheat flour) We used a combination of mostly honey, some agave nectar, and a little molasses instead of the turbinado sugar...but we used twice as much sweetener overall then what the recipe called for. (though we only made 1/2 a batch of these cookies we did use a full cup of our combined sweetener alternatives because they are less sweet then sugar) We used toasted hazelnuts, dried mulburrys, and chopped dates as mix ins. YUM YUM YUM!

How come no one specifies or asks whether or not the oatmeal needs to be cooked beforehand or not?

The oats are uncooked.

I cooked the steel cut oasmeal first and the cookies were moist and chewy. I also used the apple sauce instead of butter

I made a half batch of these and they turned out delicious! I love hearty baked goods such as these. I also substituted dried (tart) Michigan cherries for dates and they work wonderfully.

Does anyone know the nutritional values of the Healthy Steel Cut Oatmeal Cookies? Would like to know carbs, fat, saturated fat, calories from fat, protein, sodium, and glycemic index. If these are available, will somebody email the results to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ? Thanks - I would appreciate any help..... Denis

How many cookies does this recipe yield?

I usually get 2 dozen generous sized cookies from a single batch. But if you wanted to you could probably get 3 dozen smaller cookies.

DS's fav cookies are oatmeal-raisin, so this has now become THE house recipe; thanks a million!

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