Maple Oatmeal Cookies
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There’s nothing quite like a batch of warm, homemade oatmeal cookies! These cookies are soft and chewy, perfectly spiced and the best part – there is no refined sugar!
The oats and freshly milled flour give these cookies such a nice texture and flavor. We love to add raisins, but you can substitute chocolate chips or chopped pecans or walnuts.
There’s something very nostalgic about oatmeal cookies for me, reminds me of my childhood. And of course, the very best way to eat this is with a big, cold glass of whole milk.
Refined Sugar Free
I really try to avoid white sugar in our home. Of course the kids get it other places, but when I am baking at home, I avoid it as much as possible. Because of that, I am always converting our favorite recipes to include unrefined sweeteners like honey and maple syrup.
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Maple Oatmeal Cookies
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup butter softened
- 3/4 cup maple syrup
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1.5 cups whole wheat flour freshly milled soft white wheat is best!
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp salt
- big pinch of nutmeg
- 3 cups rolled oats
- 1 cup raisins or chocolate chips, or pecans, or walnuts
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350* F
- In stand mixer, whisk butter and maple syrup until creamy. Add eggs and vanilla and whisk until combined.
- In a second bowl, combine dry ingredients whole wheat flour, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, nutmeg and rolled oats
- Add dry ingredients into wet ingredients a little at a time, until well combined
- Fold in raisins
- Drop dough by rounded scoops onto parchment lined cookie sheets
- Bake for 10-12 minutes or until slightly golden around the edges - don't overcook or they won't be chewy!
How many calories per cookie?
Thanks so much for this recipe, I renamed it Five Star Maple Oatmeal Cookies! It is the only cookie recipe I have made with fresh milled flour that came out prefect!!
really good cookies. better than my favorite store bought
so glad to hear it!
Can I use regular sugar instead of maple syrup?
You can, but I wouldn’t recommend it. The maple syrup gives these cookies so much flavor.
So so yummy!!! I made 3 batches for different food allergies and they all taste amazing. This is now my go to oatmeal cookie recipe. 1st batch I substituted the butter for coconut oil and the flour for spelt flour. Delicious!
2nd recipe was spelt as well with raisins. Delicious!!
3rd recipe I used cane sugar(cause I ran out of maple syrup) still delicious but wont do this again. The maple adds so much flavour. Baked perfectly every single time.
So glad to hear this! It’s one of my personal favorites too!
The best cookies! Thanks for the recipe!
You’re welcome!
New to freshly milling my own flour, and this is the first cookie recipe I’ve made. Really yummy!! HUGE fan that it’s made with maple syrup as the sweetener. I did opt to replace raisins with chocolate chips because my 4 year old didn’t consider my last batch of oatmeal raisin cookies to be “real” cookies haha
What is the best way to store these? Have you tried freezing them?
So glad you loved the recipe! Love the idea of swapping for chocolate chips. I store them in a cookie jar on my counter.