Don’t you just hate it when plans get cancelled at the last minute? I’m a super organised pre-planner so when a spanner is thrown into the mix, I get all out of whack!
Unexpectedly home alone on a Friday night and uncharacteristically not in the mood for a lazy dvd couch bomb, had me in a pickle. What to do with my night off?
Earlier in the day I had bookmarked the recipe for gorgeous oat and raisin cookies on Finski’s blog. I rummaged through the pantry to see if I had all the ingredients and found a packet of dried cranberries so I decided to get a little creative.
With my sister and her man (both vegans) coming for dinner the following night, I altered the recipe to be vegan friendly so I would have something impressive and delicious to treat them with.
Variations: I used Nuttelex instead of butter and Organ no egg instead of eggs.
Oat and cranberry cookies
2 cups plain flour
½ tsp bicarbonate soda
½ teaspoon salt
¼ tsp nutmeg
1 tsp cinnamon
170g unsalted butter
1½ cups packed brown sugar
2 eggs
1 Tbs vanilla essence
2 cups rolled oats
1 cup dried cranberries
- Preheat the oven to 160°c.
- Sift flour, bicarb soda, nutmeg and cinnamon. Add salt and combine.
- In a separate bowl melt the butter then beat with sugar for 1 minute.
- Slowly add the eggs and vanilla and beat until light.
- Fold the butter mixture into the flour mixture. Add the oats and cranberries stirring until combined.
- Roll the mixture into balls and place on a tray lined with baking paper. Cook for about 25mins.
I love the smell of baking cookies. What a perfect way to warm up on a cold and windy night!
yummy
Yes, they certainly are!
What a simple recipe! Thank you for sharing
You’re very welcome! If you give them a try I’d love to hear how they turn out
Looks really good! I’d leave out the eggs though and use earth balance
Unfortunately we don’t get Earth Balance in Australia so I use Nuttelex which is a great non-dairy butter. The egg replacer I use is powder based, I use it in a lot of my desserts!
I don’t get Earth balance here either… I just mentioned it because it’s the substitute most people know. They have another brand where I live, however, it works just fine, too!
Love the cranberries, and they look so beautiful! I think I will need to make these next week
Hi, just found your vegetarian site, love it and just subscribed. These cookies look wonderful, I use an egg replacer too for my cooking and it works out fabulously.
Thanks Suzi and welcome! I love hearing from readers so thanks for your comment
OMG that looked awesome! I will probably give it a go with an unhealthy version… mmmm maybe chocolate chip and peanut butter chip XD It’s still oats so it’ll be healthy… right?
Yes yes yes, that sounds amazing! And healthy too of course