Five-Minute Chocolate-Almond Chip Cookies

I’ve seen many recipes for cookies made with oat flour, especially vegan-gluten free ones. Oat flour doesn’t have to be purchased, it can easily be made by blending wholegrain oats briefly in a blender. These cookies are supremely easy to make: blend dry ingredients for around 30 seconds, add wet, scoop onto cookie sheets and bake for a few minutes, depending on size. If you're good at shaping cookies, you could take even less than five minutes! (I'm not, I come up with the most bizarre shapes.) If you love flapjacks and oatmeal raisin cookies, you’ll adore these! You can make these oatmeal-raisin cookies by substituting the chocolate with raisins. My baby sister took these to school and ate them all and left everything else my mum packed; I was secretly very flattered because she is the pickiest person I know :) These chocolate-chip cookies are the saintliest you will ever eat, in addition to the most scrumptious: they are low in sugar and 100% wholegrain.

If you bake only one healthy cookie in your life, let it be this one.

And eat with cold creamy soymilk (or almond milk, or cashew milk, or rice milk, or go crazy and have oat milk). Dunking recommended.

Chocolate-Almond Chip Cookies

• 150g rolled oats
• 50g soft dark brown sugar
• 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• pinch salt, if you like

• 26g macadamia oil or melted coconut oil (for taste, or use canola if you don’t have)
• 50g soymilk or other non-dairy milk (no more!)
• 10g vanilla essence (or use 5g vanilla bean paste)
• 60g chopped Whittaker’s 62% with almond chocolate, or chocolate of your choice

1. Process first four ingredients in blender to form flour. It doesn’t have to be very fine.
2. Add next four ingredients and mix to form stiff dough. You want dough, not batter! Feel free to taste the dough: it's delicious, and you don’t have to worry about salmonella from raw eggs!
3. Scoop fifteen or so little mounds of dough onto baking trays lined with baking paper, and flatten slightly using a greased spoon. Bake for seven minutes. Take cookies out when still soft, as they will harden upon cooling.

I know I said to make 15, but the dough is very tasty, okay?

Have a great week!