Chai Tea Oatmeal Cookies
These Chai Tea Oatmeal Cookies have all the cozy chai flavours. Cuddle up on the couch with a plate of these, a warm tea and a good book and thank me later.
Servings: 12 cookies
Ingredients
- ¾ cup oat flour *see notes if you are making your own oat flour
- 1 cup oats can use rolled, quick or minute
- ¾ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ⅛ tsp ground cloves
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground ginger
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ¼ cup coconut oil softened **
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- handful chopped walnuts optional
Yogurt "icing"
- ¼ cup Greek yogurt can use plain or vanilla (note vanilla will be sweeter)
- ½ teaspoon maple syrup
- ¼ tsp ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees ℉.
- In a medium bowl combine, oat flour, baking soda, salt and spices
- In a separate bowl, cream together coconut oil, brown sugar, egg and vanilla and mix well. Slowly add the oat flour mixture into the sugar mixture and beat to combine.
- Mix-in walnuts if using and place dough in the fridge for 30 minutes to chill.
- Once chilled, drop about 1 tablespoon of dough onto a prepared cooking sheet.
- Bake for about 12 minutes. While cookies are baking mix together yogurt, maple syrup and cinnamon to create your icing.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool. Once cool, top with "icing" and enjoy!
Notes
If you are making your own oat flour: blend 1 cup of oats in a high powered blender until a flour-like consistency forms
Coconut oil can be replaced with an equal amount of softened butter.
*I have included an estimation of the nutrition information for this recipe below. However, always remember a recipe is so much more than just nutritional content and these numbers do not need to dictate your food choices. Please don't forget that both your body and soul need nourishment! The owner of this website is not liable for this estimation.
Nutrition
Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 139kcal | Carbohydrates: 19g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 0.002g | Cholesterol: 14mg | Sodium: 128mg | Potassium: 79mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin A: 21IU | Vitamin C: 0.01mg | Calcium: 25mg | Iron: 1mg
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