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
Chewy Gluten-Free Oatmeal Raisin Cookies (Allergy-Free, Vegan)
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!
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 18 mins
- Total Time: 23 mins
- Yield: 14-16 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 Cups Gluten-Free Rolled Oats
- 1 Cup Homemade Gluten-Free Oat Flour
- 1/2 Cup Arrowroot Starch
- 2 Tsp Baking Powder
- 1/2 Cup Raisins
- 1/3 Cup Erythritol
- 1 Tsp Cinnamon
- 1/2 Tsp Pure Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Extract
- 1 Cup Unsweetened Applesauce
Instructions
- 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.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 2
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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Emily @DomesticDeadline.com
I love oatmeal cookies, GF makes them even better in my book!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
They are just such a classic!
Connie
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!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
No one wants stale cookies…
Christine
Those look wonderful. Thanks!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Thank you! They are a favorite!
Liz
Oatmeal Raisin are my favorite! 🙂
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
They are always so yummy!
Kate - gluten free alchemist
Love a good oat cookie! Oats are such a fantastic food….. I use them so much! Love these cookies!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
They are perfectly hearty, healthy, and delicious!
Alissa Apel
These do sound good! They remind me of a breakfast cookie I make.
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
They could pass for that!
Elinor Kugler
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! 🙂
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
That’s where so much of my recipe inspiration comes from 😉 Thank you!
Jacqueline Meldrum
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.
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Well we celiacs need certified purity protocol oats, and then they can still bother our tummies sadly!
heidi
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
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
The storytelling is part of the experience of food and cooking! Thank you!
Mari
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! 🙂
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Right? Cookies always bring happiness!
The Recipe Hunter (Cook and Enjoy)
Just the recipe I was looking for. Thanks for sharing. I am so going to make this today.
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Awesome! Let me know if you really do 🙂
Cook & Enjoy
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.
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Awesome, glad to hear!
Diane
Oh! Oatmeal Raisin and gluten free AND chewy??! Saving this! (And, seriously, a dollar for each expired package? What a great scavenger hunt!)
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Thanks! Haha, yes! A fun little “task” for kiddos 😉
steph
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 ??
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Cookies need to be chewy!
Ritu
These look extremely tasty!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
They sure are! Thanks!
Mel
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!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
You can just use your normal sugar if you aren’t sugar free 😉
Vicki Montague
These look fabulous. I could do with one right now!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Great way to end the week 😉
Vanessa @ VeganFamilyRecipes.com
yum! These look fantastic! So happy to see that you didn’t skip the cinnamon! Oatmeal raisin cookies are never the same without it 😉
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
O, I think cinnamon is a must is just about everything 😉
Sarah McMinn
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!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Haha, right? Kept busy!
Oatmeal raisin are just so cozy! Thanks!
Roseann Hampton
Pinning to try! Love that these do not include brown sugar like most oatmeal cookie recipes!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Never needed when you make a few healthy tasty tweaks!
Uma
My favorite cookies! Love how this oats tastes after baking:) looks delicious
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Yeah! Just a super yummy texture and flavor!
Anjali @ Vegetarian Gastronomy
Love oatmeal raisin cookies!! These sound delicious!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Right? The best!
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
I wish I had one of these here right now to go with my coffee Rebecca!
Thanks and have a great weekend.
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Thank you, Neil! 🙂
Bintu
Such a fab classic cookie and love that these are gluten free
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Thank you!
Rebecca Smith
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
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
These would be perfect! Plus…everyone loves a cookies 😉
Johanna Ellen
These look absolutely amazing! Thanks for sharing!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Awesome! Thanks!
Dorothy at Shockingly Delicious
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!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Right? Whole grain, hearty goodness!
Tiffany
These look SO good! I love how they are so much healthier and naturally sweetened!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Yes! Just as they should be 😉
aish das-padihari
I can munch on these cookies all day along without feeling guilty. I’m sure they taste amazing with coffee as well.
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Ah, I think you can 😉
Dawn @dawnlioutas.com
These sound wonderful. I love oatmeal raisin cookies and I try to avoid gluten whenever possible, so I will be saving this recipe 🙂
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Great! Thank you so much 🙂
Kelli @ Hungry Hobby
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
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
The arrowroot is my go-to for that perfect gluten-free chewiness!
Çitra Kale @Çitra's Home Diary
İ love people’s recipe with a valuable memory. Nice memory adding ” the taste” for the recipe 😀 keep your recipe..
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
The stories that go along with our food are so important 🙂
Danielle
I’m definitely going to try this recipe! 🙂
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Awesome! Let me know how they turn out!
Casey the College Celiac
Thick and chewy just as I like them! YUM! And it’s amazing what we can associate certain foods with 😉
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
That’s what makes food so perfect 😉
Malissa // Quotation Re:Marks
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
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Hahaha! I would totally do that though! An extra side hustle 😉
Tina
Will try these for sure!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Awesome! Enjoy!
Kasia
These look very delicious. I agree sticking with the classics is sometimes the best. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
They’re classics for a reason!
Gloria @ Homemade & Yummy
This classic flavour combo never goes out of style. Always perfect for dunking into a glass of milk. Brings back childhood memories for sure.
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Yes! They are such a feel good childhood classic!
SeekAndRead
I have to try these.
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
I hope you do!
Lauren
These look great! I’m always looking for good gluten-free options.
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
You will love these cookies 🙂 Thanks!
C. Gibson
Great recipe for those with certain allergies.
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Thanks!