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Vegan Oatmeal Raisin Cookies using Flax Seed Meal
November 12th, 2008 Madhuram Posted in Cookies, Egg Free, Egg Replacements, Food Blog Events, Vegan Baking | 
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After the success of egg free version of the classic chocolate chip cookies (both chewy and crispy), I wanted to try my hands on another American classic the “Oatmeal Raisin Cookies”. I didn’t know then that it’s going to cost me a lot of time and material to find the perfect recipe for an eggless version. I had one recipe in hand from a book called “Cookies”. Since I have baked earlier from this book, I thought of proceeding with a recipe from that book itself. Then I saw that it used 1 and 1/2 sticks of butter, so I thought why not search for a healthy version of the cookies and found one in the net. It used only 5 tablespoons of butter, if I remember right. I proceeded with that recipe, substituting flax seed meal for the eggs in the recipe. I think I went overboard by replacing 1/2 the quantity of all purpose flour with whole wheat flour, because the cookies did not taste any good. I guess it was because of too many substitutions.
After the failure of the first experiment I decided to follow a regular recipe (not the low fat versions) exactly, but only replacing the eggs. So as per my first plan I decided to go with the recipe from the “Cookies” book. Again I used flax seed meal here to replace the one egg in the recipe. The dough came together and the cookies also looked like the store bought ones. I couldn’t wait to taste the cookies. But this time, the sugar in the recipe messed it up for me. It was way too sweet, even for a sweet toothed person like my mother and myself.
I did see a vegan oatmeal cookie recipe in “The Joy of Vegan Baking” book, but it used steel cut oats and I was not able to find it in the grocery store which I go regularly. So I thought why not try a recipe from the “Joy of Baking” website! Found this recipe and I was surprised that the recipe which I had tried out earlier was the same, but for the quantity of sugar. The previous recipe used 1 and 3/4 cups of sugar, whereas this recipe used only 1 cup of light brown sugar. This convinced me to try the recipe because only the sugar was excess in the previous batch. I baked these cookies yesterday and am very happy that they came out very well. Everybody liked the cookies, it tasted just like the ones from the bakery. Who said you need eggs to bake tasty cookies? We were not able to taste the flax seed meal at all. The cookies were chewy and tasted awesome. I can bet that nobody would guess that they are vegan cookies.
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Yield: 21 large cookies
2. Cream the butter and sugar until smooth and creamy. I used a hand mixer.
3. In a blender, add flax seed powder and water and blend it until it’s foamy.
4. Add the flax seed mixture and vanilla extract to the creamed butter. Stir it well using a wooden spoon/spatula.
5. In a medium size bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon.
6. Add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients and combine it well using a spatula.
7. Now stir the oats and other optional ingredients you wish to include.
8. Drop the batter by tablespoonsfull 2 inches apart. I used an ice cream scoop.
9. Wet your hands and flatten the cookies so that they are about 1/2 an inch thick.
10. Bake it for 12-15 minutes or until the edges are golden brown and the centre is little wet.
11. Remove it from the oven and let it cool in the baking sheet itself for 5 minutes. Then transfer it to a wire rack to cool it completely.
2. I wanted to try baking with vegan butter alternatives for long time now. So I bought Earth Balance Vegan Butter and tried this recipe with that, instead of regular dairy butter. I’m 100% sure that the cookies will come out good with regular butter also, because the original recipe uses the same.
3. I’m not a vegan, I just tried baking vegan cookies, so I have used dairy milk in the photo.
This is my entry for the following events:
1. Suganya’s Vegan Ventures.
2. DK’s AWED – American.
3. Egg Replacement Event – Flax Seed Meal hosted by me.
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August 24th, 2010 at 10:46 am
Hi Madhuram,
I can’t wait to try this recipe though I am a little afraid; I have never baked cookies before becuase of my egg allergy. Thank you for all of these recipes and keep them coming!
-Amira
You’re welcome Amira. You should definitely try these cookies and all the others I have here. They are simple to bake and pretty straight forward. Do write to me if you have any questions.
July 10th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
I was just wondering if you NEED the flax seed powder. I wasn’t able to find any at my local grocer.
See if you can get whole flax seeds. In that case you can powder it yourself. These days most of the grocery stores (at least in US) have it in the organic/natural products aisle.
May 26th, 2010 at 3:48 pm
Dear Madhuram,
Being a strict vegetarian, I have had to deny ‘indulgence’ of cookies,pastries and cakes all the while because of eggs. I stumbled upon your blog and am greatly encouraged to see that all these yummy foods can be made without eggs!
Having only baked potato:grin: before, this is the first bake I ever tried(I substituted the raisins with Chocolate chips- cos I promised my husband choco-chip cookies when he is back)… Oh, it turned out to be really amazing… (since I have only one baking sheet and am new to baking, I decided to make a small batch and had to reduce all the items to 1/3 the size) it turned great and all that aroma- I felt proud myself
!! Thanks for all these EGGLESS recipes!! Please keep adding more…
Harsha
That’s great to know Harsha. Usually recipes don’t work out that great when the measurements are altered, so its really good to know that scaling down to 1/3rd has been successful. Sure I’ll keep adding more recipes, but have to admit that I’m kind of very busy now not being able to update as often as I would like to.
May 2nd, 2010 at 4:02 pm
My oldest son is allergic to eggs and nuts. This recipe is wonderful. Thank you.
You’re welcome Nadine.
April 12th, 2010 at 10:07 pm
Thank you for me & my kids. My little one is extremely allergic to egg & nuts and so the only cookies she can enjoy are what i bake at home. today we tried this one and it was awesome !! she loved , so did the rest of my family !
we had it in the oven an extra 3 minutes and they came out crunchy.
we are big fan of your website ! keep up the good work Madhuram
You are very welcome Suba. I’m so happy to hear that your kids loved the cookies.
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November 17th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Thank you so much! I made this recipe tonight and the cookies are fantastic! I loved that they weren’t overly sweet and they are so yummy!
You’re welcome Julie.
November 17th, 2009 at 2:45 am
thank you for a wonderful recipe!
just baked those (i added 1 banana for chewiness and flawour) and they came out delicious!
You’re welcome Olga. That’s a nice addition.
November 7th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
I baked these cookies today and they were fantastic!
Thank you so much for posting so many delicious vegan recipes!
You’re most welcome Kumudha. Thank you for giving your feedback.