Healthier Oatmeal Fig Cookies

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These cookies prove that decadence can be healthy!

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 10

Total Time 20

Servings cookies

Calories 72

Author Kim

Ingredients

2 cups old-fashioned rolled oats use gluten-free as needed
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup finely chopped dried figs I used Organic Made in Nature Golden Delicious Calimyrna figs from Costco
2 eggs lightly beaten
1/3 cup maple syrup honey would work too
2 tablespoon applesauce
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 tablespoon coconut oil melted (other oils or butter would also work)
1/2 cup almond meal/flour (I used store-bought but you can make your own almond flour, by grinding raw almonds into a flour either in a food processor or high-speed blender.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. and prepare baking sheet with parchment paper, cooking spray or Silpat mat.
Combine all dry ingredients in a large bowl, then toss in dried figs.
Lightly beat 2 eggs in a medium bowl and then stir in all other wet ingredients. I quickly stir in melted coconut oil and then quickly stir wet ingredients into dry ingredients. This is to limit the coconut oil from hardening.
Batter will be very moist. Stir in almond flour.
Drop spoonfuls of batter on baking sheet. Cookies will not spread, so shape them however you want before baking.
Bake for about 10 minutes. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for about 5 minutes and then transfer them to a cooling rack.
Enjoy!

Notes

If you don’t have dried figs on hand, feel free to use dates, raisins, or dried apricots instead. I also think that these would be great with added chopped nuts or even some mini chocolate chips thrown in.

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