These Vegan Breakfast Cookies are satisfying with the oats, nuts, seeds. They are also gluten-free and have no added oil! Soy-free Recipe. Jump to Recipe
These snack cookies are a perfect quick bite to get you between meals. They also taste so decadent but pack a nutrition punch.
Loaded with nuts, seeds, oats and no oil, these breakfast cookies come together really quickly. Change up the additions and flavors to preference and keep them around on the counter or in the freezer for quick snacking!
Ingredients for these Vegan Breakfast Cookies
Ingredients for these Vegan Breakfast Cookies- Wet ingredients: flax seed meal mixed with water, nut butter, maple syrup, vanilla extract
- Dry Ingredients: almond flour, oats, coconut, seeds or nuts
- Additional flavors: chocolate chips or chunks, dried fruit such as cranberries, raisins, apricot.
- Leavening with baking powder
How to make Vegan Breakfast Cookies with Step pictures
Make flax egg in a large bowl by mixing the flax seed meal with warm water and let sit for 2 mins. Add nut butter, maple, and vanilla and mix well.
Mix the baking powder and salt into the almond flour. Add to the bowl. Add oats, coconut, seeds, chocolate Mix everything until well combined. Press and mix to hydrate all the dry evenly. Chill for half an hour.
Scoop and shape into flat cookies. Press chocolate chips on top. Bake at 340 degrees F for 18 to 20 mins. Cool completely and store.
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Recipe Card
Vegan Breakfast Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 flax egg (1 tbsp flax seed meal mixed in 2.5 tbsp water)
- 1/4 cup (62.5 g) nut butter
- 1/2 cup (118.29 ml) maple syrup
- 1/2 to 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup (112 g) almond flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 cup (81 g) old fashioned oats , certified gluten-free if needed. Or omit and add more of the seeds, nuts and coconut
- 1/4 cup (20 g) coconut
- 1/3 cup (46.67 g) seeds , sunflower, pumpkin, hemp, sesame, chia or use a mix of seeds and chopped nuts such as pecans, walnuts (toast seeds or nuts before adding for nuttier flavor variation)
- 3 tbsp chocolate chips plus 1 tbsp for topping or use dried fruit
Instructions
- Make flax egg by mixing 1 tbsp flax seed meal with 2.5 tbsp warm water in a large bowl.
- Add the nut butter, maple syrup, and vanilla extract and mix well.
- Mix the baking powder and salt into the almond flour. Add to the bowl.
- Add oats, coconut, seeds, chocolate. Mix everything until well combined. Press and mix to evenly hydrate the dry ingredients. Chill for half an hour.
- Preheat the oven to 340 deg F (170 C). Scoop and place on parchment lined baking sheet. Press to shape into flat cookies. Press chocolate chips on top.
- Bake for 18 to 20 mins. Cool completely then store on the counter in a covered container for the week. Refrigerate for a few weeks. Freeze for upto 2 months.
Kath
Do I need to refergerate ? Making with our daycare kids and on a little time frame.,..thanks Kathy
Richa
Hmm, they’ll be a bit sticky when not refrigerated. Add a bit more flour
Lalitha
Thank you for such easy recipe with all the pantry staples.Turned out extremely delicious. Just wondering of I can replace the rolled oats with oat flour for my little one to enjoy?
Thank you! 🙂
Richa
That will make them too dry. Just omit the oats and add a bit kore almond flour
JJ
Yum! So good. Trying to stop myself at eating two so I can freeze the rest.
Vegan Richa Support
hope that went as planned!
Michelle
Ooo these look amazing and I’d really like to try them but I don’t have any almond flour 🙁 could I use plain flour or buckwheat flour by any chance?
Richa
Yes use 1/3 cup flour
PRIYANKA KOVVALI
Can I replace flax egg with ground chia seeds?
Richa
Yes
Aisha
I love these cookies! They have become a staple in my house. Easily adaptable to what I have on hand, full of good stuff and so easy and delicious!
Vegan Richa Support
hooray!!
Ollie's mom
These are so good – thank you for the recipe! I didn’t have coconut, but that was completely fine – I used extra seeds/nuts instead. To those saying oats have gluten, this is 100% false; oats are a gluten-free food. The reason those of us who are gluten intolerant need to be careful of our source of oats is that they can easily come into contact with gluten-containing grains when farmed or when processed.
Vegan Richa Support
yes – always read labels carefully . thanks for popping in ♡
Erin
Easy and so delicious. Love the crunch. I used a mixture of hemp seeds, sunflower, and chia with peanut butter.
Vegan Richa Support
Awesome
Colleen Reid
Just made these cookies, delicious. Added to my favourites. We like cookies not too sweet so I reduced the maple syrup to 1/4 cup, also only used 3/4 cup oats but increased the seeds/nuts to 1/2 cup, included some chopped dried cranberries with a mix of sunflower seeds, pumpkin, hemp, walnut and pecans. I didn’t add chocolate chips but put a few on top.
Loved this recipe.
Richa
Thanks!
Mewi
I’ve made these 3x at least – always a little different. So great. Question: I’m out of nut butter. I assume tahini would work. Any adjustments you’d consider? Thx!!
Vegan Richa Support
totatlly! no adjustments needed
Barbara
Awesome! I make them every week for a quick weekday breakfast. Thanks!
Vegan Richa Support
super – thank you for stopping in
Sunnie
Super healthy, super delicious!! Perfect!!!!
Vegan Richa Support
So glad you enjoyed these!
M
Easy and delicious! Thank you for the recipe!
Vegan Richa Support
awesome!! thank you for popping in
Lori
Made these this morning with dried apricots, pumpkin, sunflower, chia seeds and chopped almonds. So so good. Made these into bite sized cookies (1Tbs) and baked for 13 min. Made 30 cookies! Love them
Vegan Richa Support
Sounds delish! Thank you!
Elizabeth Hanson
Our family loved these… they stayed crispy and were delicious! Perfect for a healthy afternoon snack.
Richa
Awesome
Melynda
Quick, easy and sooo delicious! I just ate 3 haha
Vegan Richa Support
sweet
Chloe
Could you do the recipe with a chia egg rather than flax egg or would it not work the same? Thanks
Luciana
I just made these and they are so good, even my no cookie eater husband likes them! We use sunflower and pepitas seeds, and walnuts along with the chocolate chips. I measured and weighted my cups and they seemed to be smaller than yours as 1 cup of almond flour was less than 100 grams for me. Definitely a recipe I will be making for gatherings and work meetings. Thank you!
Luciana
These look amazing! Can you freeze them? I have no willpower and will eat them all if my kids don’t like them. Thanks!
Luciana
Never mind! I just read that yes, you can freeze these.
Mary Lu Campbell
What other kind of flour would you recommend. I cannot eat almonds or almond flour. Will coconut flour work just as well?
Richa
Coconut flour needs 4-5 times the moisture so it won’t work. You can use some regular flour (half the amount of almond flour) and a tbsp of coconut flour
scott
I take it coconut flour can not be substituted? Tried twice and they fell apart. Crumbled all over.
Richa
Yes, they will do exactly that. Coconut flour needs 10 times more moisture than almond flour.
Chefcap
Yum so delicious, I would love to make recipes as like you. This looks so amazing and delicious also I would love to share this blog with my friends.
tracy
I just made a double batch of these cookies and they are delicious, a great substitution for expensive packaged breakfast cookies/bars. I didn’t have almond butter so I had to sub peanut butter. I did double the seeds and used less oats and I added 1/4 cup of chopped dried cranberries. The seeds I used were just what I had on hand chia, peptita, pecan and sunflower (toasted the last three before I added them to the mix) 18 min in the oven worked for me. Thanks for another delicious recipe.
Denise
Hi Richa,
Important info about oats – 40% of the population cannot tolerate oats nor digest them properly. Certain lab testing I did came with the following explanation:
” level of IgA antibody to oat proteins was greater or equal to _ units indicative of an immune reaction and hence immunologic sensitivity to oats. It is recommended that oats be removed from your diet. You should avoid all oats even those claiming to be gluten-free. It is estimated that 40-50% of gluten sensitive people are oat sensitive as well. Studies claiming oats are tolerated by all gluten sensitive people and that consequently conclude that oat gluten is non-toxic, by design, inherently select study patients from the 50-60% of gluten sensitive people who can tolerate oats. (This is because if a person could not tolerate oats they could not be in a study asking them to eat oats regularly for long periods of time.) The original research by Dr. Willem Karel Dicke finding that gluten was the cause of celiac disease identified wheat, barley, rye, and oats as the offending grains.”
I have to substitute another sprouted flour for oat – typically will try buckwheat, quinoa or sorghum. None are ideal for the “stickiness” factor that oats provides, but I’m still trying to experiment with substitutes and it’s better than feeling bad after eating oats.
JoAnne
I made your Breakfast Cookies using sunflower seeds, sliced almonds and chopped pecans which I lightly toasted as you suggested. I added one (1) teaspoon of cinnamon and one (1) teaspoon of vanilla. I am Vegan and gluten free and have been for almost twelve years but I do use honey. I used 1/4 cup of honey and 1/4 cup of maple syrup and did use unsweetened, unsulfered coconut. I didn’t think extra chocolate chips were needed after baking. All ingredients were organic. The cookies were very good. I gave them to several friends who also enjoyed them.
This recipe is a keeper!
THANKS!
Richa
awesome
Chris
Made these last night – gave half of them away, hubby and I ate some right out of the oven, got up this morning and made another batch! These cookies are awesome! Thanks for the recipe.
By the way, in all my years of making cookies (and I am old), I have never seen a recipe to bake at 340. Why do you suggest 340 and not 350? I am doing them at 350 and they came out fine. Just curious.
I love your recipes!
Thanks again.
Chris-
Richa
is because of almond flour, sometimes depending on the sheet and oven, the almond flour will end up making over toasty bottoms of the cookies. so reduce temp a bitt tot be on the safe side.
Brenda
I just made these and they are delicious!! Will be using them for a treat midday or after dinner.
The recipe was easy to follow and the cookies are soft with just enough sweetness. Thank you for the recipe. These are definitely a new favorite!!😍
Richa
Thanks!
Jeri
These were delicious! An easy, nutritious breakfast for my kiddo, and makes great snacks, too!
The Speed Vegan
I made these last night, they are delicious, chewy and crunchy, not super sweet, full of vegany goodness, I did not have any chocolate chips so I used 3T of chopped English walnuts and I used pepitas for the seeds. I am planning to try with chia seed and sunflower seeds too. This will go in the rotation. <3
Richa
great
The Speed Vegan
I made these last night, I didn’t have any chocolate chips so I substituted chopped walnuts, I used pepitas for the seed, and they were delicious, and chewy and crunchy. Def will add to the rotation.
Richa
awesome
Aileen
Beyond amazing. The maple syrup is the game changer as it makes them soft and delicious. I have not enjoyed the VGF cookies I’ve made until this recipe.
Sincere thanks
Richa
awesome!!
Rose
Hi Richa! Thanks for the clarification re what kind of oats to use. I just made these and you should have called them Anytime Cookies because they’re too good for just breakfast! Came together beautifully and while I did add chocolate chips, I think I wouldn’t next time because it kinda detracts from the flavour of the nuts and seeds. (I can’t believe I just said I’d leave chocolate out of anything!) I toasted my coconut, pumpkin, sesame, hemp and sunflower seeds before adding to the mix. GREAT cookie and I’ll definitely make again – thank you!!
Richa
Awesome! great idea to roast the seeds!
Jim
Great recipe! I have a different though related question: I’m a bit new to “vegan-nomics”, so a little advice would be appreciated. I have a terrific pie recipe that calls for 3 eggs, the ONLY ingredient unlawful in the vegan univers as all other ingredients – including the crust – is GF and DF, but not vegan. The “vegan egg” in your cookie recipe – how many should I use for the pie recipe? Is it always a one-to-one exchange? Thanks! (Have been enjoying your recipes for a short time that is going to be a much longer time.)
Darlene
While I can’t tell you Jim about using 3 flax eggs in you mentioned pie recipe, I guess experiment a bit. Here’s a link for some helpful baking ideas that I recently found.
https://www.peta.org/living/food/baking-cheat-sheet/
Swiggy Coupons
omg, the cookies look delicious. Is it important to add egg in the cookies because I am vegetarian?
Richa
flax egg is is an egg substitute, no egg here
Angela
Thank you, Richa 🙂
Looking forward to making these.
Laura
Thanks for this wonderful recipee yet in Argentina we cannot get certified glutten free oats, which is terrible because it is a fundamental energy intake!!!! I wouldn ‘t like to replace it. I wish we could buy it here!!!
Thanks
Richa
just add more of the seeds and nuts and coconut
Cherie Russell
Oats…..coeliacs cannot eat wheat, barley, oats or Rhy.
If old fashioned oats are in it …ITS NOT GLUTEN FREE
Richa
From what my coeliac frieds have told me, some people dont react to oats that are certified gluten-free, ie handled without contamination. most oats get contaminated because of growing and packaging around wheat. So it really depends on the person. i have alternates mentioned, just use more of the seeds and nuts
Donna
Oats do contain gluten, albeit a small amount so anyone with autoimmune disease should not use grains. The starch is also problematic, so find a substitute that works for you.
JoAnne
I have Coeliacs and can eat Certified Gluten-free Oats in moderation. I prefer the Bob’s Red Mill Brand.
Dave Pretzil
Oats are not gluten free.
Richa
From what my coeliac frieds have told me, some people dont react to oats that are certified gluten-free, ie handled without contamination. most oats get contaminated because of growing and packaging around wheat. So it really depends on the person.
Daxa
HI Richa,
Thank you for your wonderful recipes!!!
This is the part of your recipe that states oil that needs to be recitified.
HOW TO MAKE VEGAN BREAKFAST COOKIES WITH STEP PICTURES
Make flax egg in a large bowl by mixing the flax seed meal with warm water and let sit for 2 mins. Add nut butter, maple, oil and vanilla and mix well.
Richa
thanks, updated!
Cheryl
Which kind of oats should I use?
Rose
Same question here. Large flake oats?? Dying to make these!
Richa
old fashioned. updated
Sue
These look delicious Richa. We have been all about breakfast cookies lately. They tend to disappear during the day, too. 🙂
Jodi
Hi. This recipe looks awesome and want to make rigbt NOW ! I am little confused. Diections said add oil but I dont see oil in the ingredients. Maybe I am misreading?
Richa
there isnt any, the instructions had an error
Bev
I see oil in the recipe ? I thought they were oil free ???
Richa
there isnt any, the instructions had an error