Try these oatmeal walnut cookies for a wholesome vegan treat made with oats, nuts, and fruit. They keep well, taste gently spiced, and work as a simple dessert or everyday snack.
Ingredients
- 1½ cups oatmeal
- ¾ cup wholewheat pastry flour
- ¾ cup unbleached white flour or almond flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp sea salt
- ¾ cup currants
- 1 cup walnuts toasted and coarsely chopped
- 2 tbsp *apple butter or ½ cup organic cold pressed sunflower oil
- ½ cup barley malt or brown rice syrup
- Zest of 1 orange
- ½ cup orange juice
- 1 tbsp finely grated fresh ginger juice
- 1 tsp vanilla
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 170°C (340°F), gas 4. Line two baking trays with parchment paper. In a large bowl, mix the dry ingredients.
- In a smaller bowl, whisk together the wet ingredients and then stir into the dry ingredients.
- Transfer heaping tablespoons of dough to the baking sheet, leaving at least 1 inch (2 cm) of space between the cookies.
- Flatten the cookies with the back of a fork to make rounds. Dip the fork in water to keep the mixture from sticking.
- Bake the cookies until the edges and undersides are golden, 20 to 25 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool on a rack.
- Makes 16–18 cookies.
*Apple butter is a highly concentrated form of apple sauce produced by long, slow cooking of apples with cider or water to a point where the sugar in the apples caramelizes, turning the apple butter a deep brown. The concentration of sugar gives apple butter a much longer shelf life as a preserve than apple sauce.