Your favorite “healthy” cookies, now gluten-free, allergy-free, and vegan! These Chewy Gluten-Free Oatmeal Raisin Cookies are an easy dessert recipe to bake up any day of the week when the craving for a sweet snack hits!
I have a great story for these oatmeal raisin cookies! Okay, maybe not “great” but more childhood memories to share with you. If you’ve been reading this blog for any amount of time, you know I love reminiscing with old childhood memories revolving around remakes of recipes. That is where I get a lot of the inspiration! Oatmeal raisin cookies, now gluten-free, allergy-free, and vegan, but still with that chewy and soft bite that I just LOVE!
When I was a “wee one”, my mom would take my brother and I to the grocery store with her (of course). (The same beloved grocery I go to every week today!) My brother and I would usually go off (never more then an aisle or so away from my mom), but we would have some adventures to keep us occupied. One of the things we did was scour the shelves for “expired” food. When we saw a “best by date” that was passed and expired, we’d grab that box and hold tight. No, we didn’t want old stale food, but we did want money!
This may have been just my grocery store, but when you brought up expired food to the customer service counter, they’d give you a dollar for each product! I’m not sure if they still do it, but it was one of those “underground” hacks that only a few people knew about. You could make bank if you really scoured those aisles. What does this have to do with chewy oatmeal raisin cookies? Well, the brand my mom would always buy us (and the best, might I add!), you were bound to find a bunch of packages each time you looked with past “best by” dates. I guess no one was buying them but us!
I now always associate oatmeal raisin cookies with those stale packages. But the packages that weren’t stale…SO GOOD! Soft, chewy, perfectly sweet and hearty. That’s why I just needed to bring back the old favorite and classic cookie. Now gluten-free, allergy-free and vegan. Super simple, clean, and healthy. One of the only things where adding raisins is a-okay! The essential “grandma’s cookies” but better 😉
Chewy Gluten-Free Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
- 1½ Cups Gluten-Free Rolled Oats
- 1 Cup Homemade Gluten-Free Oat Flour
- ½ Cup Arrowroot Starch
- 2 Tsp Baking Powder
- ½ Cup Raisins
- ⅓ Cup Erythritol
- 1 Tsp Cinnamon
- ½ Tsp Pure Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Extract
- 1 Cup Unsweetened Applesauce
- Preheat the oven to 375°F.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine all the ingredients, adding the applesauce last, and mixing until you have a thick cookie batter.
- On a baking sheet lined with a Silpat or parchment paper, place 2 tablespoon sized cookies evenly spaced out (about 14-16 cookies total).
- Bake in the oven for 18-20 minutes. Remove and let cool.
O the delicious oatmeal raisin cookie memories! Honestly, if I were to choose between a chocolate chip cookie and and oatmeal raisin, I would choose the oatmeal! (I know…shocker for this chocoholic!) Any cookie, freshly baked, warm, and cozy is good enough for me! But right now…I’m craving one of these bad boys (and you won’t have to worry about them going stale…trust me 😉 )
So tell me:
+ Do you have any super secret grocery store hacks?
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I love oatmeal cookies, GF makes them even better in my book!
They are just such a classic!
It’s a good thing the packages weren’t expired. Although “best buy” dated products are listed as such when the food brand prefers it to have been sold by, so I see nothing wrong with getting a couple 🙂 But very clever in getting some cash! And these cookies look heavenly. I know my grandma would love them!
No one wants stale cookies…
Those look wonderful. Thanks!
Thank you! They are a favorite!
Oatmeal Raisin are my favorite! 🙂
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They are always so yummy!
Love a good oat cookie! Oats are such a fantastic food….. I use them so much! Love these cookies!
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They are perfectly hearty, healthy, and delicious!
These do sound good! They remind me of a breakfast cookie I make.
They could pass for that!
It’s an awesome feeling when you recreate a childhood recipe! I loved reading your aisle store story and I love oatmeal cookies, so I know I’ll love yours! 🙂
That’s where so much of my recipe inspiration comes from 😉 Thank you!
I love these type of cookies, they are so good. As a good Scottish lass, I am always well stocked up with porridge oats to make porridge, add to burgers, to top crumbles, to make flapjacks (chewy oaty squares, not pancakes), to make cookies and to add to cranachan.
Well we celiacs need certified purity protocol oats, and then they can still bother our tummies sadly!
I am gluten-free for health reasons so I loved this and I have issues with oats especially. I loved the story too, you don’t see that often in food blogs. I subscribed
The storytelling is part of the experience of food and cooking! Thank you!
One can never have too many cookie recipes, right? Especially if they fit vegan cuisine and are so delicious, so simple, so… that you want to make a batch right now! 🙂
Right? Cookies always bring happiness!
Just the recipe I was looking for. Thanks for sharing. I am so going to make this today.
Awesome! Let me know if you really do 🙂
Rebecca – I made this today also with some tweaks, and its yummy. If you want, you can check it out on my blog or on twitter.
Awesome, glad to hear!
Oh! Oatmeal Raisin and gluten free AND chewy??! Saving this! (And, seriously, a dollar for each expired package? What a great scavenger hunt!)
Thanks! Haha, yes! A fun little “task” for kiddos 😉
I think the chewy bit was what caught my eye often gluten free tjings can be a lottle dry. These babies look pretty to astey ??
Cookies need to be chewy!
These look extremely tasty!
They sure are! Thanks!
Those babies look absolutely gorgeous. I’ve actually got all ingredients at home, except Erythritol (not actually sure what it is) , so I could give them a go with my children!
You can just use your normal sugar if you aren’t sugar free 😉
These look fabulous. I could do with one right now!
Great way to end the week 😉
yum! These look fantastic! So happy to see that you didn’t skip the cinnamon! Oatmeal raisin cookies are never the same without it 😉
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O, I think cinnamon is a must is just about everything 😉
That sounds like a nice part time job for a little kid 🙂 These cookies look great, btw! I love a good oatmeal raisin cookie and love that these are gf, too!
Haha, right? Kept busy!
Oatmeal raisin are just so cozy! Thanks!
Pinning to try! Love that these do not include brown sugar like most oatmeal cookie recipes!
Never needed when you make a few healthy tasty tweaks!
My favorite cookies! Love how this oats tastes after baking:) looks delicious
Yeah! Just a super yummy texture and flavor!
Love oatmeal raisin cookies!! These sound delicious!
Right? The best!
I wish I had one of these here right now to go with my coffee Rebecca!
Thanks and have a great weekend.
Thank you, Neil! 🙂
Such a fab classic cookie and love that these are gluten free
Thank you!
Perfect energy boosting snack for my little (not so little) 12 yr old with her Coeliac Disease and Type 1 Diabetes, we’re always on the look out for slow release carb recipes to maintain blood sugar levels, these look perfect x
These would be perfect! Plus…everyone loves a cookies 😉
These look absolutely amazing! Thanks for sharing!
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Awesome! Thanks!
Such a classic cookie! They are classic because they are so good! Love the coffee! I also love that I don’t have to feel too guilty if I eat a few!
Right? Whole grain, hearty goodness!
These look SO good! I love how they are so much healthier and naturally sweetened!
Yes! Just as they should be 😉
I can munch on these cookies all day along without feeling guilty. I’m sure they taste amazing with coffee as well.
Ah, I think you can 😉
These sound wonderful. I love oatmeal raisin cookies and I try to avoid gluten whenever possible, so I will be saving this recipe 🙂
Great! Thank you so much 🙂
I haven’t done any baking with Arrowroot starch – I usually use collagen to help bind cookies like these, but raisins….. I’d take a oatmeal raisin cooking over chocolate chip any day
The arrowroot is my go-to for that perfect gluten-free chewiness!
İ love people’s recipe with a valuable memory. Nice memory adding ” the taste” for the recipe 😀 keep your recipe..
The stories that go along with our food are so important 🙂
I’m definitely going to try this recipe! 🙂
Awesome! Let me know how they turn out!
Thick and chewy just as I like them! YUM! And it’s amazing what we can associate certain foods with 😉
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That’s what makes food so perfect 😉
These cookies look delicious! I love a good oatmeal raisin cookie 🙂
Also – I once had a job in a grocery store where I had to look for expired food and rearrange the shelves….. it wasn’t as exciting for me as it was for you guys. lol
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Hahaha! I would totally do that though! An extra side hustle 😉
Will try these for sure!
Awesome! Enjoy!
These look very delicious. I agree sticking with the classics is sometimes the best. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
They’re classics for a reason!
This classic flavour combo never goes out of style. Always perfect for dunking into a glass of milk. Brings back childhood memories for sure.
Yes! They are such a feel good childhood classic!
I have to try these.
I hope you do!
These look great! I’m always looking for good gluten-free options.
You will love these cookies 🙂 Thanks!
Great recipe for those with certain allergies.
Thanks!