Gluten-Free Chia Oatmeal Cookies

Gluten-Free Chia Oatmeal Cookies recipe. Soft pillows of oatmeal cookie goodness, made with healthier ingredients and without refined flour, refined sugar or dairy.

This week we are going to share two Spring inspired baking recipes. The first is this Gluten-Free Chia Oatmeal Cookies recipe.

These may be one of our favorite oatmeal cookies that we've ever made that have no refined flour or sugar inside.

They are soft pillows of oatmeal cookie goodness made using healthier ingredients, such as… gluten-free oats, almond flour, chia seeds, maple syrup, coconut sugar, and olive oil.

We're a huge fan of oatmeal cookies, but many of the recipes that we have looked at require white flour, white sugar, brown sugar, butter…etc

We wanted to make a lighter gluten-free oatmeal cookies… that still tasted satisfying but that had better-for-you ingredients inside.

And the result is this satisfying Gluten-Free Chia Oatmeal Cookies recipe.

Ingredients needed to make Gluten-Free Chia Oatmeal Cookies:

• rolled oats
• salt
• almond flour
• tapioca flour
• chia seeds
• cinnamon
• baking soda
• vanilla
• egg
• maple syrup
• water
• coconut sugar
• olive oil

These oatmeal chia seed cookies taste SOOO good with a tall glass of milk or almond milk. They also make really great snacks or grab-and-go breakfast options.

Though, we do have to give this one suggestion… try crumbling them up on top of ice-cream. It’s a game changer!

You can customize these Gluten-free Chia Oatmeal Cookies to your liking:

What’s great about these almond flour chia seed cookies is that you can customize them to your preferences.

We personally always like dividing the oatmeal cookie dough in half and then making half of our oatmeal cookies with chocolate chips and the other half with cinnamon and raisins.

When it comes to this recipe in particular, we prefer the cinnamon raisin route… but chocolate chips are such a crowd pleaser that we make both.

If you want to do a half and half situation, like we do, then divide the dough in half and add 1/3 cup chocolate chips to half the dough and 1/3 cup of raisins and 1 tsp of cinnamon to the other half.

We love doing half and half because then it’s like you have two different baked goods… and you can eat whatever one your in the mood for. 🙂

If you want to make yours with just chocolate chips ( we use Enjoy Life dairy-free chocolate chips), then add 2/3 cups chocolate chips to the batter.

Or if you want to make yours will only raisins, then add 2/3 cups raisins with an extra 1 tsp or so of cinnamon.

We had our brother and husband taste test these and both of them loved them.

Our brother even said that these are better than our usual oatmeal cookies… which are famously good!

Tips on making Gluten-free Dairy-free Oatmeal Cookies:

Once you have the dry ingredients mixed together in one bowl, and the wet ingredients mixed together in another bowl. Make sure to pour ALL of the wet ingredients into the bowl of dry ingredients.

We like to use a rubber spatula to really get all of the wet ingredients out of the bowl.

Then, make sure to really mix the cookie dough until it is all wet.

THEN, let the batter sit for 5-10 minutes. Doing this lets the tapioca flour and chia seeds absorb some of the excess liquid, which makes the dough more manageable.

After that, use a spoon ( we like using a tablespoon), to scoop out the dough. Press the dough into the spoon so that you get a solid ball shape.

Don’t put too much dough into each cookie because these cookies are soft and spread and if they are too big, they could be hard to hold.

Lastly, let the cookies sit on the cookie sheet after baking for several minutes.

These Gluten-Free Chia Oatmeal Cookies harden as they cool, but they will never be hard cookies. They are soft by nature.