Healthy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe made with honey and whole wheat flour. These cookies are thick, soft, and just sweet enough to satisfy your sweet tooth!
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Welcome to real food dessert week! I've been working on all kinds of recipes of your favorite treats that feature whole grain flour (whole wheat and/or oats) and natural sweeteners (honey or real maple syrup). First up is this recipe for delicious chocolate chip cookies with honey and whole wheat flour. These cookies are thick, soft, and just sweet enough. They don't taste too strongly of honey and chocolate chips make everything better don't they?!
Now, I am a big believer in balance and my 80/20 approach when it comes to food is alive and well. Normally I enjoy a nice sugary sweet when I have a treat, but that being said, I also wanted to start making some "better for you" treats because I love to bake. I found myself finding plenty of excuses to eat sweets throughout the week and eat sweets we did. I'm trying to rein in our processed sugar consumption a bit and this is a great way for me to do that. My kids had no idea that any of the desserts that I'm going to share with you were "healthy". They enjoyed them like normal.
These cookies aren't low in calories, they still have some sugar (I used a high quality dark chocolate chips, but they still have sugar), and honey is a sugar even though it's more natural. They do have whole grains, more fiber, I replaced butter with coconut oil, and when it comes to the ingredients in them I know what they are, how they are made, and have a good idea of where they came from. You can't say that about every treat that makes it in to your kids hands (I'm looking at you Otter pops and fruit snacks). These are still a treat and you should approach them as such, but also applaud yourself a little for going with a healthier version of a traditional classic.
The more I have been making and eating treats and desserts made with more natural/whole food ingredients, the less I have been craving junk. I enjoy one or two, I get rid of my sugar craving, I enjoy the baking process, and I move on with my day. I can literally eat a dozen of my favorite traditional chocolate chip cookies without much thought. They are delicious but I never get tired of them. These are great, really great, but I find myself more satisfied with them and so I eat less of them. It could totally be a mental thing with me, and I'd love to hear if you have a similar experience.
My cookies are really sticky, what should I do?
If the dough is really sticky right after you stir it all together, let it rest for 5 minutes. The whole wheat flour will absorb some of the extra moisture.
How long can I freeze cookies?
When frozen properly, most cookies can be kept in the freezer for up to three months. Mine usually don't last that long!
Can I use nut butters instead of peanut butter?
Yes! You can use substitute nut butters in place of peanut butter in this recipe.
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Total Time: 27 minutes
- Yield: 9-12 cookies 1x
Description
Healthy oatmeal chocolate chip cookies recipe made with honey and whole wheat flour. These cookies are thick, soft, and just sweet enough to satisfy your sweet tooth!
Ingredients
- 1 cup old fashioned oats
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- ½ cup honey
- ¼ cup peanut butter
- 1 egg
- 4 tablespoons melted coconut oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ½ cup chocolate chips (plus more for placing on top)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a baking mat.
- In a medium bowl add the oats, whole wheat flour, baking powder, salt, and cornstarch. Stir to combine. Add the honey, peanut butter, egg, coconut oil, and vanilla. Stir until well combined. Add the chocolate chips and stir to combine.
- Make a ball with 2 large tablespoons of dough in your hands then lightly flatten the dough and place it on the baking sheet. Repeat with remaining dough. Bake cookies for 12 to 14 minutes until the cookies are light brown and not soft in the center. Let cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to finish cooling on a wire rack.
- Notes: This recipe makes 9 large cookies or 12 average-sized cookies. If you make 12 cookies, bake 10-12 minutes.
Notes
- You don't taste the peanut butter much, it's helps to make the cookies not taste too "honey-y". You can use other nut butters in place of peanut butter in this recipe.
- If the dough is really sticky right after you stir it all together, let it rest for 5 minutes. The whole wheat flour will absorb some of the extra moisture.
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 12 mins
- Category: Dessert, Cookies
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Keywords: oatmeal cookie recipes, oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, healthy cookie recipe, easy cookies
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You are going to love these Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies with honey and whole wheat flour and you'll feel so good feeding this treat to your family. It's the little things! Enjoy! Thank you so much for being here.
Mila
Amazing!
★★★★★
Rosebud
Melissa, Thank you so much for making healthier recipes with low sugar. I'm a diabetic and looking for some good great-tasting dessert recipes and they are hard to find. A lot of them use ingredients that normal cooks don't keep in their cupboards. I like your recipes, I haven't made any of them yet but I'm looking forward to doing so because I can tell that your recipes don't turn out rubbery. That's the problem I've had with a lot of other ones. People really do need to cut down on the amount of sugar they use in recipes. I've found out that you can cut out about half what a recipe says and it doesn't turn out awful. Again, thank you so very much.
Melissa
You are so welcome! I have a great low sugar pumpkin bread recipe on my site too if you are looking for one!
Lori
Hi Melissa,
Thank you so much for your chocolate chips recipe. I am making it right now and realized that you missed the baking powder in the instructions until I was about to add the chocolate chips. Are we supposed to add it in with the dry ingredients? I added it after and I hope they turn out.
I couldn't even make a ball with my hands because I substitited the peanut butter for almond butter and they seemed runnier.
Looking forward to tasting them. Thanks again! 🙂
Melissa
They should have came out fine, even adding it at the end. Thank you for mentioning that I have corrected the recipe!
Jen
These cookies are delicious! Thank you for sharing!
★★★★★
Megan - The Emotional Baker
Wow! These cookies are gorgeous! I love the healthier swaps! I'll have to make a similar version soon 🙂
Anna
My kids love fruitsicles...not made from juice or smoothie but actual chunks of fruit, frozen. I froze a bunch of grapes (separated and washed, of course) this weekend and they didn't even make it to the freezer bag, my kids devoured them. I'm sure that's not anything new, but it is so easy and so refreshing on a hot day, and my kids don't ask for popsicles when there are grapesicles, plumsicles, pineapple-sicles, etc around.