Chocolate Coconut Macaroon Cookies; gluten and dairy free snack made with coconut, cocoa powder, oats and other healthy ingredients.
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Hi beauties!
Hope everyone is enjoying their last little bit of summer before back to school hits us. One thing I use to hate most about school is lunches. Packing a lunch was always a pain. Whether your packing for yourself or for your children, some things I always make in large batches is cookies and granola bars (or protein bars).
I always make tons at the beginning of the month, then freeze them in little ziplock or wrap them in tinfoil. It makes a quick easy snack to throw into your lunch bag.
By the time you go to eat them they will have thawed. They also act as little ice packs to keep your meal cold! Multi purpose 🙂
These cookies are great because they have mostly natural or generally healthy ingredients. You can eat them guilt free! Finding healthy alternatives for your baking allows you to eat more and not get the sick sugar feeling after!
Chocolate Coconut Macaroon Cookies Ingredients:
- coconut oil
- agave syrup
- almond milk unsweetened
- unsweetened apple sauce
- buckwheat flour or gluten free flour of choice
- oats
- unsweetened shredded coconut
- sunflower seeds
- salt
- baking soda
- cocoa powder
So as you can see, the ingredients are not that complicated! You probably have them all in your pantry right now! So get off your phone or computer and go make these delicious balls of coconut macaroon goodness!
If you don't have some of these ingredients, you can find alternatives for them or swap them for a similar! For example, if you don't have sunflower seeds you can switch them out for another seed or nut! You probably already know you can do that but I just wanted to throw it out there for any newbie bakers in the audience!
How To Make These Coconut Macaroon cookies:
These cookies are super easy to make. All you have to do is mix all the ingredients together and then bake them in the oven at 350 for 10-15 minutes! Quick and easy to make and everyone will love them!
Oats are such a healthy morning breakfast and you could easily get away with eating cookies for breakfast with this recipe!
These cookies are a perfect vegan and gluten free snack for the lunch boxes. I called them macaroons because there is a lot of coconut in them.
The base is oats but there is tons of coconut with a splash of chocolate. They are also peanut free which makes it acceptable for kids to take to school too.
More Homemade Cookies:
- Oatmeal Walnut Cookies
- Best Vegan and Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Healthy Gluten Free Pumpkin Cookies
- Chocolate Drizzled Sugar Cookies
If you make any of my recipes please tag your photos with #nikkisplate so I can see your beautiful creations! Any feedback in the comments below is greatly appreciated.
I hope you have fun!
Until next time,
Chocolate Coconut Macaroon Cookies
Ingredients
Wet Ingredients
- 4 tablespoon coconut oil solid not melted
- 3 tablespoon agave syrup or maple syrup
- ¼ cup almond milk unsweetened
- ¼ cup unsweetened apple sauce
Dry Ingredients
- 1 cup buckwheat flour or gluten free flour of choice
- ½ cup oats
- ½ cup unsweetened shredded coconut
- ¼ cup sunflower seeds
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- 2 tablespoon cocoa powder
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Mix the solid coconut oil and agave syrup. Add the almond milk and applesauce and combined.
- Add the buckwheat flour, salt, and baking soda, cocoa powder and mix until smooth.
- Add the oats, sunflower seeds and coconut.
- Drop by tablespoons onto the cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-13 minutes.
- Cool on wire racks. Enjoy!
Chocolate Coconut Macaroon Cookies; gluten and dairy free snack made with coconut, cocoa powder, oats and other healthy ingredients.
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