Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies with Nuts & Seeds

5 from 6 votes

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies with Nuts & Seeds

Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies made with nuts and seeds for health, texture, and flavor for snacks, lunches, and healthy desserts.

Prep Time20

Cook Time7

Total Time27

Course: Desserts

Cuisine: American

Servings: dozen

Calories: 100kcal

Author: Jami Boys

Ingredients

1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup peanut butter or nut butter of your choice
2/3 cup brown sugar*
3 tablespoons honey*
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 ¼ cup oat flour (or ground whole oats)**
3/4 cup whole rolled oats
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 cup chopped walnuts or nut of choice
1/3 cup sunflower seeds or seed of choice
2 tablespoons flaxseed meal (add 2 tablespoons more seeds if you don't have this)
1/2 cup chocolate chips or dried fruit like cranberries, cherries or raisins.

Instructions

Heat oven to 350 degrees and line a couple cookie sheets with silicone or parchment.
Beat butter, nut butter, sugar and honey until smooth in a large bowl. Add egg and vanilla and mix until incorporated.
Add the oat flour, oatmeal, soda, baking powder and salt to the mixture. Stir until all is mixed well before folding in the nuts, sunflower seeds, flax meal and chocolate chips.
Using about a tablespoon cookie scoop, drop cookies onto prepared sheets, flattening slightly.***
Bake these smaller cookies for 7-8 minutes only, then let cool a bit before transferring to a rack to cool completely.
Repeat as needed to use up the dough. Store in airtight container for a few days or freeze for longer storage.

Notes

*I also tried it with a different sugar-honey ratio: 1/2 cup brown & 1/4 cup honey, but the cookies didn't spread as much as pictured. If that's okay with you, go with this amount if you'd like.

**If you don't have oat flour, you can simply grind 1 1/4 cup oats in a blender until a flour forms (that's what I did for the cookies pictured). If you don't need gluten free, you can substitute whole wheat or all purpose flour.

***If you'd like to freeze the cookie dough, make the dough balls and add them closer together on one cookie sheet; freeze until solid and then transfer to a labeled airtight freezer container. Bake cookies from frozen as written, adding a minute or so if needed.

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