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Rushing out the door in the mornings, we enjoy a bowl of maple oat granola with almond milk and a large bowl of coffee, sipped slowly cupped in our hands, French style. However, we also love these quick, soft and crumbly healthy Breakfast oat cookies too.
Breakfast Oat Cookies
My daughter, Lucie loves cookies with an abundance of chocolate in them. Happiness to her is with these chocolate hazelnut cookies I developed using a recipe from Le Pecq Chocolaterie in our neighbourhood (best suited for a goûter or afternoon snack). So, when I make cookies WITHOUT CHOCOLATE, adding oats and dried fruits instead, then the eyebrows say it all. Thankfully, these breakfast oat cookies passed the test with flying cranberries – the hazelnuts give them that extra punch of flavour and they’re LOW IN SUGAR too – perfect for breakfast.
Try this recipe and you’ll find it’s so versatile: in Winter, we love adding some vibrant orange zest. Would you believe I’m so behind on le blog, that I realised I hadn’t posted this recipe since January 2017, when I took the photos in preparation for this. Ahem – I have some online cleaning to do! Thanks to my good Scottish friend, Sandra, for asking for the recipe! Enjoy.
If you prefer your cookies with chocolate, then simply omit the cranberries and replace with good quality bitter dark chocolate chips which also match so well with the hazelnuts and orange. However, do try these first, just like Lucie! Cookies don’t always need chocolate – do they?
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Breakfast Oat Cookies
Servings : 12
Calories : 163kcal
Description
Breakfast oat cookies with ground hazelnuts and cranberries (plus also good with orange). A deliciously healthy start to the day with reduced sugar, plus a perfect quick teatime snack to tide you over until dinner without the guilt
Ingredients
- 80 g (3oz) butter softened
- 50 g (1.75oz) brown cane sugar (Cassonade)
- 70 g (2.5oz) ground hazelnuts
- 30 g (1oz) oatmeal
- 50 g (1.75oz) plain (all-purpose) flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt fleur de sel
- 1 egg organic
- 100 g (3.5oz) dried (but moist) cranberries
- zest of an organic (unwaxed) orange (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/160°C fan/360°F/Gas 4.
- Whisk together the butter and sugar in a large bowl until a mousse forms.
- Add all the other ingredients and ensure they're mixed together.
- Line a baking tray with baking parchment or with a silicone mat. Form little balls using a couple of dessert spoons, spacing them quite apart (as they expand slightly during cooking) then lightly tap them down to flatten.
- Book the cookies for about 15 minutes until golden brown. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.
Notes
Best eaten on the day they're made, even better slightly warm from the oven. However, if you make them the night before, they're good the next morning if stored under a cake bell or in aluminium foil once cooled.
If the cranberries are not very moist, soak them in a little orange juice for 15 minutes, then drain off the juice before starting the recipe. The orange is delicious over winter but the cookies are also just as good without it. You'll see - it's a very versatile cookie recipe!
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Comments (15)
I know these are good! I love the combination of cranberries and hazelnuts. And the cookies are delightful to look at.
Thanks, Mimi. We love that we can change the ingredients such as ground hazelnuts to almonds or pistachio and switch the cranberries with good dark chocolate chips. It’s a versatile but stable recipe that I’m happy with!
I love having a ready to eat breakfast in the morning—especially when it’s a cookie!! These look wonderful, Jill!!! xo
Hehe thanks, Liz. Yes, and I love an excuse that you have to finish them all since they’re best eaten first thing in the morning if they’re made the night before 😉
Great to have another oat recipe – and low sugar too. I’m thinking this will be lovely on crisp (or pouring with rain) autumn mornings on Speyside).
You make that sound so poetic, Linda. Can just imagine!