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Simple Oatmeal Cookies are a favorite snack in my house especially in cooler weather. Some nut butter, or sun butter, oats, flour and done. In this variation, I use tahini for the fat and volume. Tahini makes these a salty, sweet, and interesting cookie. Tahini adds a fabulous buttery texture to the cookies without needing any added oil. It also adds a slight bitter profile. Add some dried fruit/raisins, chocolate chips or other additions, add some spices of choice. Add an icing,make this cookie your own.
If you like tahini, you will also love my Chocolate tahini flourless cookies!
What is Tahini?
Tahini is just blended up toasted hulled sesame seeds. The seeds are blended/processed until smooth and fluffy sesame seed butter. The flavor and texture of tahini varies significantly with brand. Tahini adds a nutty, slightly bitter (but pleasing bitter) profile wherever you use it. However, depending on the brand, it might add a lot more bitter. This bitter especially will show up in sweet things like this cookie. For best results use a brand that you generally like the flavor of. I like Soom and Whole foods brand.
Ingredients for Vegan Gluten free Tahini Oatmeal Cookies
- Smooth tahini is the base volume and fat in this recipe. Tahini can be a tad bitter depending on the brand, so use one you generally like the flavor of.
- Maple syrup is the sweetener. To substitute, use same amount of sugar and 1 tbsp non dairy milk
- a bit of non dairy milk and vanilla extract round up the wet ingredients.
- Oat flour and cornstarch are the dry flour mix. Use other starch as substitute for cornstarch
- Old fashioned oats add the oatmeal volume.
- baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon or other spices
- flakes sea salt on top adds a balance to the bitter tahini.
How to make Tahini Oatmeal cookies with step pictures
Add all the wet ingredients in a bowl. Mix until well combined.
Add 1/2 cup flour and the rest of the dry ingredients except oats. Mix the dry lightly with a spoon before mixing into the wet.
Add the oats and fold in. Add more oat flour and mix in then chill for 15 mins.
Scoop onto parchment lined baking sheet. Using wet hands flatten and shape. Sprinkle flaked salt on top.
Bake at 345 deg F for 12 to 14 mins. Cool for 10 mins and serve. 
More Tahini Recipes
- Tahini Ginger Cookies, Gf option
- Chocolate Tahini Cookies. Grainfree
- Chickpea Tahini Salad Sandwich, GF option
- Berbere roasted Acorn with Tahini dressing, GF
More Oatmeal cookies
- Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies, GF option
- Sunbutter Oatmeal Cookies, GF option
- Almond Butter Oatmeal Cookies. GF oil-free
Recipe Card
Tahini Oatmeal Cookies Vegan Gluten free
Ingredients
Wet:
- 1/4 cup (60 g) tahini (mix the tahini well and then measure)
- 1/3 cup (78.86 ml) maple syrup (see note for substitute)
- 1 tbsp non dairy milk
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Dry:
- 3/4 cup (90 g) oat flour (use all purpose flour if not glutenfree)
- 1 tbsp cornstarch or other starch
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 cup (81 g) old fashioned oats
- flaked salt as needed
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 345 deg F (175 C). Add all the wet ingredients in a bowl. Mix until well combined.
- Add 1/2 cup flour and the rest of the dry ingredients, except oats and flaked salt. Mix the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon lightly with a spoon before mixing into the wet.
- Add the oats and fold in. Add the remaining oat flour and mix in until the mixture is a stiff batter like state. Chill for 15 mins.
- Use a scoop to place scoops of the mixture onto parchment lined baking sheet. Using wet hands flatten and shape. Sprinkle flaked salt on top.
- Bake at 345 deg F for 12 to 14 mins. Cool for 10 mins.Store: on the counter for upto 4 days. Refrigerate for 2 weeks.
Notes
Nutrition
KG
Worst recipe ever. I used Trader Joe’s organic tahini and made a couple of substitutions, as recommended – used all-purpose flour instead of oat flour and brown sugar in place of most of the maple syrup. I wound up leaving out the last addition of flour as the dough was so sticky and dry that there was no way to incorporate any more. I tried adding additional tahini and milk, but it was just impossible to work with – with a spoon or a mixer. In despair, I added an egg in a rescue effort as I didn’t want to throw out the batter. I was finally able to bake them but they are nothing special.
Richa
Those substitutes together are going to completely change the flour to moisture ratio. Maple has a lot of moisture and binding which is lost with the sugar. All purpose flour absorbs much more moisture that oat flour and would need additional liquid. The suggested changes are for 1 change in the recipe. Together you would need to reduce the all purpose flour amount by 3-4 tbsp. (Just changing flour and keeping maple syrup would give better result) . With the 2 changes and maybe the tahini not being moist enough, the dough probably ended up not very balanced.
Tom
I added raspberries into the mix, very good, thanks 🙂
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great idea! thank you, don’t forget to rate!
sonia
Made them. Came out well! Good to be more sweet. I will add more maple syrup, maybe double it. That’s what i found in most of recipes that use maple syrup.
Vegan Richa Support
Glad they came out well and hope you continue to enjoy the recipe!
Susan Z.
Good, but a little dry. I substituted gf flour blend for the oat flour. Could that be the reason?
Richa
Yes if it’s a rice based gf blend it will dry out a lot. You’d need to adjust the recipe to have more moisture and more fat.
gabriella
These are fantastic cookies. I love the tahini taste! I added chocolate chips and they were superb.
Vegan Richa Support
i love the flavour combination too, thanks
Jennifer
I followed the recipe exactly and they were delicious! I want to make another batch and was wondering if any or all of the oat flour could be replaced with chickpea flour? Thank you!
Richa
Chickpea flour has a very bitter flavor so don’t use it unless the recipe is written with it
Kimberly
So delicious! I added raisins and chopped walnuts and used spelt flour instead of oat. They came out sooo good, thank you!
Vegan Richa Support
yummy
Lynn
So good! I made a batch last week w/added raisins and ate for breakfast! Made a 2nd batch today, with raisins plus added chips to 1/2. I love how healthy they are for a quick breakfast or w/chocolate chips, a healthy sweet treat. Thank you so much for the recipe 👍
Vegan Richa Support
yummy
Pauline
So tasty and gluten free!
Vegan Richa Support
yesssssss
Vicki
PS to comment – also used whole wheat flour –
Vicki
Looking to replace another recipe that’s too high fat…came together perfectly! And taste much better. Very impressed.
Did use agave 1 to 1 for maple.
Had to rotate in my small oven.
Next batch, thinking to experiment w/orange juice….
Vegan Richa Support
Excellent !!!! Thank you so much for your feedback
Aman
Hello Richa 🙂
Wanted to say tried these with almond butter instead of tahni ( first batch with tahni but didn’t sit well) and I used orange extract instead of vanilla extract. The cookies are AMAZING thank you for such a healthy recipe x x x
Aman
Great recipe made this yesterday and it was huge success with the family 🙂 thank you
Unfortunately tahini doenst sit well with me causing me gas could I replace this with almond butter for the next batch I make? If so would it be the same quantity
Thank you 🙂
Richa
Yes use smooth almond butter.
Aman
Thank you 🙂 can’t wait to try it again.
Shilpa
These were horribly dry, like eating sandpaper! I should have been skeptical as soon as I read the vague line “Add more oat flour and mix in until the mixture is a stiff batter like state,” baking requires precise measurements. I ended up throwing out the entire batch.
Richa
I am not sure what happened. Different brands of tahini vary in terms off their liquidy and that’s why you have to adjust flour because I don’t know which brand you are using. Seems like yours was a bit dry to begin with so it would bake much faster and dry up quicker in the oven. So maybe you needed less flour and less baking time
Nalia
The phrase “add more oat flour” maybe is the cause of confusion… it is the rest of oat flour you have, after initially using only 1/2 cup and not the whole 3/4 cup that the recipe calls for. Probably some people use all the flour and then add more…
Richa
Hmm I’ll change that up
Dawn
I just made a chocolate orange version by subbing one quarter of the oat flour for cocoa, and orange essence instead of vanilla. Delicious! They did cook a little quicker though, good to know. (Your original version is still my favourite though)
Dawn
I love your recipe, and I make these cookies often! They tend to start vanishing as soon as they come out of the oven…
Vegan Richa Support
So glad! Thank you!
danielle
Could I use almond flour in this recipe?
Vegan Richa Support
Not for these but a GF, or buckwheat would work
Ilse
I just made these and they are amazing. I used buckwheat flour instead of oat flour which worked as well. Have to hold myself back not to eat them all at once now !
Katie
Loved this recipe. I ended up drizzling Soom’s chocolate tahini spread on top of the cookies. The mixture of oats, cinnamon, tahini, chocolate, and the salt on top – so good!
Richa
aweesome
anneliese
Delicious recipe, thank you so much! <3
Richa
thanks!
Paula Harmata
can I just put oats in my vitamix to make oat flour?
Richa
Yes!
Anaelle
This cookies recipe is amazing ! Had to add a little bit of milk for the replacement of maple sirup by coconut sugar but they turned out so tasty and moist. Made double batches twice in three days !!!
Richa
yay!
Janet
I will try these.. it’s looks delicious. Have all the ingredients 👍
Debbie Garnaut
Delicious, quick and easy. I replaced half the maple syrup with rice malt syrup and it worked a treat. Thank you. I love your recipes
Richa
awesome!
Handpan les workshop
Love the flavour of sesame! And also that its a healthy(er) option 🙂 Thanks!
Mandy
Just made these
Fantastic!
Richa
awesome! thanks!
Kimberly
Hate to break it go you, but oats are not gluten free, even if marketed to be “wheat free”. I am coeliac and I have the same reaction to *gluten free oats” as I do anything else containing gluten.
I am not the only one affected here with this. In Australia oats can only be labelled as “wheat free” not gluten free.
Richa
i’ve heard this from people in australia. In the US, non-contaminated oats are labelled gluten-free. A lot of people do tolerate oats(as i’ve heard from many readers and other bloggers in the US and UK and other countries). There probably should another category which is more specific than gluten-free, maybe oat-free + gluten-free.
Here in an example about oats and labeling which says the same thing that most people tolerate oats while some dont. https://www.coeliac.org.uk/information-and-support/living-gluten-free/the-gluten-free-diet/about-gluten/oats/
trish
Excellent! Thank you so much for this recipe…all ingredients are in the cupboard and ready to go 🙂