IRRESISTIBLE CHEWY TRAIL MIX COOKIES

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Welcome to my dream cookie. Ram packed with healthy ingredients, chewy, crispy around the edges, thick and bite-sized, with dark chocolate sprinkled throughout. One thing to point out. I used a very "drippy" raw almond butter in this recipe. If you are using a more solid & thick and less liquid-y nut butter, you may want to add another 1/2-1 tablespoon of water into your flax egg to prevent the batter from becoming too dry. I did make a version with a traditional flax egg using 1 tbsp ground flax and 3 tbsp water, but the cookies spread out too much and were quite thin. So by reducing the flax egg to 2 tbsp water, it produced a much thicker cookie. As you can see, small changes in the consistency of the batter will produce greatly different outcomes so keep this in mind when experimenting!

Provided by @MakeItYours

Number Of Ingredients 20

1 cup gluten-free rolled oats, blended into oat flour
1/2 cup almond meal or almond flour
1/2 cup gluten-free rolled oats
1/2 cup thinly sliced almonds
1/4 cup Sucanat or coconut sugar or brown sugar
1/4 cup shredded unsweetened coconut
3 tablespoons mini dark chocolate chips (or finely chopped chocolate)
2 tablespoons raw cacao nibs
2 tablespoons sunflower seeds
2 tablespoons sesame seeds
2 tablespoons chia seeds
3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 tsp fine grain sea salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tablespoon ground flax + 2 tablespoons water, mixed together
1/4 cup "drippy" raw almond butter (or other all-natural nut butter)
1/4 cup coconut oil
1/4 cup pure maple syrup (or other liquid sweetener)
1 tsp vanilla

Steps:

  • Preheat oven to 350F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
  • Whisk together the ground flax and water in a small mug and set aside so it can gel up.
  • In a large mixing bowl, whisk together all of the dry ingredients.
  • In another medium sized bowl, stir together the wet ingredients, including the flax egg until thoroughly combined.
  • Add the wet mixture on top of the dry mixture and stir well until combined. This will take quite a bit of stirring until all of the dry patches of flour are gone.
  • Portion small balls of dough (just smaller than golf balls) onto the baking sheet, spacing them a couple inches apart. I ended up baking two trays of cookies because I didn't know how much they were going to spread out.
  • Bake cookies for 13-15 minutes (I baked for a full 15 minutes), until light golden brown on the bottom. Cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack until completely cool. The cookies will break apart easily until cooled, so be careful.
  • Wrap up and store leftovers on the counter or in the freezer, if desired.

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