Raw Vegan Gluten Free No Bake Apricot Coconut Oatmeal Cookies
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So, in honour of Joe's Gluten Free Surprise product launch and Celiac Awareness month, I thought I would share some of my favourite gluten free snack recipes. I decided that after all of that baking last month with the Gluten Free Baking With KitchenAid event, I would share these super quick and easy NO BAKE gluten free cookies!
My raw vegan lemon cranberry raisin oatmeal cookies were so popular last year that I wanted to share a variation of this raw vegan oatmeal cookie recipe. I am also experimenting with new allergy free recipes I can make with my niece Alexandra when I go home next month! I am already COUNTING THE DAYS until I have that little girl in my arms. I am flying back for her third birthday party and I thought these gluten free, dairy free, egg free, nut free and soy free cookies would make a wonderful treat she could eat at the party!
Mum and I made these apricot oatmeal cookies for the Christmas table last year and they were a big hit! I like making small bite-sized cookies because they dehydrate faster and look prettier. But you can also make larger, more traditional sized cookies with this recipe too. These raw cookies taste pretty close to conventionally baked oatmeal cookies, but you are getting the benefit of all of the live enzymes and goodness. Just tweak the flavours to taste, you might want to add in a little more agave or lemon zest. But these quantities struck a nice balance for me. You can't go wrong with apricot and coconut! Mmmmmm.....
**Please note: For those of you without Excalibur dehydrators, you can make these oatmeal cookies in a conventional oven by preheating your oven to 300 F, placing the cookies inside, closing the oven door, turning the oven off and allowing it to cool with the cookies inside. The cookies should have a nice chewy texture. You can repeat this process for a harder cookie.
Enjoy! These cookie are really yummy!
Raw Vegan Gluten Free No Bake Apricot Coconut Oatmeal Cookies
- 2 cups organic oat groats or rolled oats
- 2 cups dried apricots
- 1 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
- 1/2 cup firmly packed grated fresh apple (about 2 medium apples)
- 1/2 cup pitted dates roughly chopped
- 4 Tbsp organic raw unrefined coconut oil
- 2 Tbsp raw agave nectar
- 1 tsp alcohol free vanilla extract or 1/2 tsp regular extract
- 1 tsp freshly grated lemon zest
- a pinch of Celtic sea salt or Himalayan salt
- Place all of the ingredients in your food processor and pulse a few times until well combined.
- Transfer this mixture to a large bowl and work with your hands until a thick clustered "dough" forms that hold together into balls.
- Tweak the flavours to taste. You might want more agave or lemon zest.
- Form this dough into medium sized cookies and place on Excalibur mesh dehydrator sheets.
- Dehydrate cookies at 100 degrees for about 12 - 15 hours or more depending on your preference.
- This recipe yields 12 medium sized dense chewy cookies. Alternatively, you could make 24 smaller cookies. YUMMO!
- **Please note: For those of you without Excalibur dehydrators, you can make these oatmeal cookies in a conventional oven by preheating your oven to 300 F, placing the cookies in, closing the oven door, turning the oven off and allowing it to cool with the cookies inside. The cookies should have a nice chewy texture. You can repeat this process for a harder cookie.
Piggy Cooking Tips
How to prevent sticking when chopping dried fruits
Chopping dried fruits such as dates, apricots and raisins can be a sticky mess. The fruit sticks to the knife, the board and your fingers. To get yourself out of a sticky situation just rub a tiny drop of cold pressed oil onto the blade of your knife. The fruit will slide right off after cutting.
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Piggy Grunts!
Add Your GruntThanks for sharing the idea about the dehydrator. Now I can surely make these yummy cookies. Do you think fresh, grated coconut will give me the same texture?
I think you would have to reduce the liquid if you used fresh coconut. You could do it, but you would want to completely squeeze the liquid out of the apples and you would need to dehydrate for longer. ENJOY!
These cookies are amazing! I went with the smaller cookies so the recipe would yield more, thinking I didn’t want to be a pig (the bad kind) and so they would last. HA! They disappeared in one sitting. Guess the only thing to do is make another batch…!
LOL! Oh….so you have MY disease! HA!
Glad you enjoyed them :)
I made these yesterday and they were really really good.
Thankyou for another easy tasty recipe.
I am going to make the raisin ones on the weekend.
Oh, I am so glad you enjoyed them.
The raisin ones are pretty amazing too.
SO easy and SO good!
Thankyou so trying so many of the recipes.
You are AMAZING!
Hi, I love the mix of coconut and apricot..yum! I would love to make these. I can’t eat oats or wheat, you mentioned buckwheat and nuts, any other suggestions? Thanks
To get a consistency similar to the oats, and keep the recipe raw I would suggest using buckwheat with a mixture of nuts or seeds. If you want to bake these you could use puffed rice or puffed millet?
No bake!! Did i hear you say?? I’m in! These look just great and so so easy. Thanks again for all these amazing recipes!
LOL! You are SO welcome. ENJOY!
These taste pretty close to the real thing!
Ive never heard of apricots like this , Theylook yummy, I’m excited to try this recipe.
Yes! This recipe is a winner!
Can’t wait to hear what you think!
Love cookies, love oatmeal and love apricots! ...and did you say “No Bake?” This looks sooo good! You know, this eating healthy thing is getting ...Easy! now only if I could find women like that! ; )
LOL! You are HILARIOUS!
Enjoy the apricots and oatmeal…
We’ll talk about the women later!
You crack me up :)
Heaven…...DELICIOUS. My daughter is snacking on these as I type.
Oh, I am so pleased you enjoyed these.
Yes, they are GREAT for children.
Is there anynthing else I can use instead of agave nectar?
thnks!
and AMAZING recipes u have there. unfortunally, as I live in Brazil, some ingredients are not so easy to find!
Hey Marina,
I find that don’t need the agave nectar at all. You could just add a bit more coconut oil and some dates.
Or use another sweetener of your choice.
A tiny bit of maple syrup could be lovely?
I am partial to dried apricots too!
They work really well in these cookies.
Glad you like them!
Hi, I would love to try these! My daughter cannot have oats though. Do you think it would work the same if I used quinoa flakes instead?
Hey Nikki,
Quinoa flakes work really well in this recipe. You might just have to add a few more dried apricots or dates in order to get everything to stick together. Or a tiny bit more coconut oil. It depends on all of your ingredients. But it all works and tastes great :)
Please let me know how you go!
We have been on a mostly raw vegetarian diet since late june’12 and have enjoyed dessert almost every night. We just made this recipe and the results were fantastic. Two changes. We were out of dried apricots so we substituted dried cranberries and dried plums:-), yep PRUNES! Tasted wonderful, and very high fiber. Just don’t eat too many.
LOVE your blend of this recipe Lance. YUMMO! Thanks for taking the time to share :)
I’ve been looking for something to do with that bag of organic apricots I bought last summer. This recipe looks like it may be a contender if I could replace oatmeal groats with some ground buckwheat groats? Any suggestions for the oat non-metabolizers out there?
You could definitely replace the oats with buckwheat groats. I would LOVE to hear how that turns out! I would add in some nuts as well to bulk them up.