Now these Morning Glory Breakfast Cookies are how to start a day right! The perfect taste and texture, healthy and loaded with amazing ingredients! Gluten free, vegan, and naturally sweetened. These are a morning must-make!
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Cookies for breakfast?
Um, who here wants cookies for breakfast? Oh everyone? Yeah, I thought so.
Seriously, cookies for breakfast is kind of the best idea ever, but they should still be healthy and full of nutrient dense ingredients that fuel the body with nothing but good stuff! Like these Morning Glory Breakfast Cookies!
These beauties are PACKED with veggies, fiber, healthy fats and are naturally sweetened. And they are egg-free to boot, since I know so many of you are needing egg-free recipes for your home. However, they are still soft and sweet, making them the perfect breakfast to make ahead of time for a busy morning…or enjoy as a snack or healthy little afternoon treat!
How to make your own oat flour
Making your own oat flour at home is super easy and only requires a blender.
For this recipe, place 2 1/2 cups of uncooked rolled oats into your blender and pulse until the oats are broken down into a flour.
If you prefer, you can also buy pre-made oat flour at many grocery stores or online.
An important thing to remember is that not all oats or oat flours are automatically gluten free. If gluten free is important, be sure to buy oats that have a specific label “gluten-free”.
Tip
- Use a food processor to grate carrots and apples. You can totally use a box grater, but if you are all about saving time in the kitchen, using your food processor with the shredding blade attachment is a great kitchen hack that I often use!
Suggested Adaptations
- Sub the raisins for chocolate chips for a little something extra sweet
- Use eggs instead of flax meal and water. If eggs aren’t a no-go in your house, feel free to sub 2 large eggs or 3 small for the flax and water in this recipe.
- Use whole wheat flour instead of the oats. If gluten free isn’t important in your house, sub the oat flour for whole wheat.
Other veggie-loaded breakfast recipes you are going to adore
- Instant Pot Morning Glory Oatmeal
- Chocolate Zucchini Oatmeal
- Oatmeal Green Smoothie Muffins
- Oatmeal Green Smoothie Waffles
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Egg-Free Morning Glory Breakfast Cookies
Ingredients
- 3 tbsp flax meal
- 9 tbsp water
- 1/3 cup coconut oil melted
- 1/3 cup maple syrup or honey
- 1/2 cup grated apple
- 1/2 cup grated carrot
- 2 cups oat flour make sure it is certified gluten free if gluten free is important
- 1/2 cup unsweetened coconut, shredded
- 1/4 tsp sea salt
- 1/2 tsp gluten free baking powder
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1/4 tsp ground ginger
- 1/4 cup almond or coconut milk or milk of choice
- 1/3 cup raisins
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350℉ and line two baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mat. Alternatively, use a little extra coconut oil to grease the sheets to prevent the cookies from sticking.
- In a medium bowl. Combine the water and ground flax meal. Let it sit for about 5 minutes to allow it to "gel". This will make the "flax eggs" and serves as a binding agent in the cookies.
- After the flax "eggs" have gelled, add the remaining ingredients except the raisins to the bowl. Mix throughly.
- Fold in raisins.
- Using a small cookie scoop or a heaping tablespoon, portion the cookies out onto your prepared baking sheet.
- Gently flatten the cookies a bit with the palm of your hand.
- Bake for about 12 minutes or until lightly golden brown. Remove from the oven and allow the cookies to cool on cooling rack.
- Enjoy immediately, store in an airtight container, or freeze for breakfasts or snacks
Notes
- Use a food processor to grate carrots and apples. You can totally use a box grater, but if you are all about saving time in the kitchen, using your food processor with the shredding blade attachment is a great kitchen hack that I often use!
Nutrition
The nutritional information is provided as an estimate only and may vary based on the product type, servings and other factors. If you are following a diet, please consult with a professional nutritionist or your doctor. Stay healthy!
If using eggs, how many eggs should be used for this recipe?
I would suggested 2 large or 3 small eggs instead of the flax and water mixture
Thank you for sharing this recipe. My kids liked them. I did use the chocolate chips instead of raisins and i added a bit more honey and maple syrup. Next time ill tey to sneak in more apple and carrot. This is a very dense dough so i had to make them pretty thin in order to cook through. My first batch came out more like muffins than cookies 😁..
This looks amazing and I’m going to make it part of our meal plan this week.
When you say there can be a substitution in the recipe it would be helpful if you could put in the amount of the ingredient.
Like, I would prefer to use eggs instead of flax, how many should I use?
Thanks!
Totally understandable. I usually do explain, but seemed to have accidentally left out how properly replace flax “eggs” with real eggs. Fixed now
You are the queen of amazingly delicious, veggie loaded, and healthy muffin recipes! Have you ever thought about a recipe for morning glory muffins? I’m on the hunt for a morning glory muffin recipe!!
Thank you for your kind words! I love that idea and will totally have to give it go!
Delicious! Made them this morning and they are delightful 🙂
Yay! I’m so glad you enjoyed them and thank you for taking the time to share your rating!
These are delicious! I ran out of raisins and used a little grated fresh ginger instead of dried. Definitely will be a part of my (and my toddler’s) regular rotation. Recipe made 12 very large cookies.
I’m so glad!
These smell delicious, however my batter is very runny. I used two eggs instead of the flax egg and I double checked all of my measurements. Should I add more oat flour?
Were your eggs on the large side? If so, that certainly may be the issue and, yes, a little more oat flour would help
I made these this morning using the flax eggs and found them very runny too! Looked more like cake batter than cookie dough so I added a bit more oat flour. Going on 30 mins of baking and they still aren’t browned. Hoping they turn out!
Interesting! Time to retest and see if I can figure out the issue. I’ve always had great success with this recipe, but its good to revisit!
Like!!
My favorite image is the one that has milk in the background. Cookies and milk combo makes my mouth water immediately! 🙂
Can you use regular oats, instead of oat flour? Or a mixture of oats and regular flour?
You can grind oats in your blender and make oat flour! Or replace the oat flour with whole wheat flour