Whole Wheat Oatmeal Cookies. With Extra Goodies.

Whole wheat oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. With hemp hearts and coconut sugar.

Say what, Magpie? Who’s been baking in your kitchen, woman, ’cause you do NOT bake like this.

Before you ask any question about the ingredients, I’m just going to say this:

It’s because it’s all I had.

Now that we have settled that, these are most certainly the oddest cookies I have baked up. I didn’t make them with the intent of being “healthier”, it’s literally….

…all I had.

I was out of white flour. I am in the middle of trying to clean out my pantry and ready myself for school, for the baking and lunch packing that will soon take over my life.

I also have no sugar since I only use it for baking and if I’m out of white flour, I’m not really baking. Did that circuitous sentence make any sense to you? Basically, baking is at a standstill this summer, excepting pies of course. I don’t have to bake a new pie until next week and we live off honey for everything else, so no sugar in the house is really not a problem for us.

Until you want to bake, that is.

Listen, I know I need to go grocery shopping. I just have to reach the back of the pantry somehow and actually make a real list of what I need for back to school.

I made the mistake of promising my children cookies without checking if I had the ingredients first. That’s totally rule #15 in the Parenting Handbook, what am I, a rookie? I promised cookies after a morning of helping me clean the house and jumping on the trampoline between running the vacuum for me upstairs. They worked hard. They deserved some delicious cookies for an afternoon treat.

I had nothing peeps, nothing.

I stuck my head in my pantry- which was still not cleaned and organized- and assessed. I figured I could cut my Smartie Oatmeal cookie recipe in half, having only 1 1/2 cups of large flake oatmeal to my name. I had no white flour as we have already ascertained and no sugar.

I dug into my bag of swag from BlogHer and pulled out the organic coconut palm sugar that was given to me. It’s definitely not crossed my radar yet for baking, yet I remembered the company reps had told me it’s a 1:1 replacement for conventional sugars.

I had sugar. This is a good start.

I also always have whole wheat flour in the house. Another promising start.

With a whispered prayer that these dang cookies would work out, I dove into new baking territory.

 Ingredients for Whole Wheat Oatmeal Cookies

1/2 cup of butter
3/4 cup coconut palm sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup of whole wheat flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 1/4 cups of large flake oats
2 tbsp hemp hearts
1 cup chocolate chips

Cream together the butter and the coconut palm sugar. Once they are combined thoroughly, add in the egg, followed by the vanilla.  Sift together the flour and baking soda, then add to the butter mixture until combined.

Now the hemp hearts aren’t a new thing in our house,  I do eat and love and enjoy on cereal and salads myself. I had yet to find a good way to sneak them into the kids meals as neither of them really enjoyed the flavor. I pulled them out of the fridge and thought meh, let’s add a couple of tablespoons. They bring a lovely nutty flavor to the cookie.

Once you have added the oat flakes and hemp hearts, add in the chocolate chips. A girl’s gotta have chocolate.

Roll into golf ball sized balls and place 6 to a cookie sheet. Press them flat with the bottom of a glass, making sure to wet the bottom of the glass with water if the cookies stick.

Bake in a 350 degree oven for 8-10 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool on the sheets for 5 minutes, then remove to a rack.

This makes a perfect 18 large cookies.

These were an absolute hit with everyone in the family.

Try them, love them, play with the recipe and let me know any fun variations you make! I am going to whip up another version next week and see how the kids like them.

Seriously, I Love When Accidental Baking Turns Out Epic Magpie