These homemade flourless chocolate chip cookies are soft, chewy, and so delicious. It’s the perfect recipe for bake sales, lunch boxes, snack or dessert!
Easy flourless chocolate chip cookies
Did you know that chocolate chip cookies can talk?
It’s true. Every time I pass by a plate of cookies sitting on the kitchen counter, they call out to me, informing me of their existence and telling me that I want to eat them.
As if I needed a reminder.
And with five stars and over 500 positive reader reviews, clearly this flourless chocolate chip cookie recipe speaks to you all as well.
Homemade oatmeal chocolate chip cookies symbolize everything that is good in the world: love, comfort, wholesomeness, and gooey chocolate chips.
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Why you’ll love these healthy flourless oatmeal cookies
The best chewy texture. If traditional chocolate chip cookies are good, these are even more delicious than normal cookies, because they take out the flour and replace it with soft, hearty rolled oats instead.
Rich, elevated flavor. Without all the dense and starchy wheat flour to weigh the cookie down, each distinct flavor and texture really shines. The oats lend a natural sweetness to every bite, and they have the perfect amount of chocolate chips.
Guests love them. The cookies are a huge party favorite. I first created the recipe over a decade ago and have been making them for book clubs, birthday parties, and potlucks ever since!
Portable dessert option. They are easy to transport and can be left out on the counter without melting as long as it is not too hot. Guests of all ages and dietary preferences love the classic flourless chocolate chip cookies.
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Key ingredients
To make the recipe, you need rolled or quick oats, chocolate chips, sweetener, baking soda, salt, butter or oil, and milk of choice.
Rolled oats – I like traditional old fashioned Scottish or Irish oats. Quick oats or instant oats can work in a pinch. Do not use steel cut oats.
For gluten free flourless cookies, look for certified gluten free oats at the grocery store or pick up a bag of rolled quinoa flakes.
Chocolate chips – Feel free to use mini or regular dark chocolate, semi sweet chocolate, milk chocolate, white chocolate, or a combination of chocolate chips.
To create vegan flourless chocolate chip cookies, simply use dairy free chocolate chips, plant based butter or oil, and nondairy milk.
Sugar – Good sweetener options include regular granulated sugar, brown sugar, packed unrefined coconut sugar, or sugar free xylitol.
If you experiment with other options like pure maple syrup, honey, agave, or stevia, let me know how it goes.
Fat source – Coconut oil, vegetable oil, or softened butter all work well.
You may substitute softened peanut butter or almond butter, or plant based butter.
I do not recommend leaving out the fat unless you want fluffy muffin cookies instead of chewy, buttery ones.
Customizations – Suit the cookies to your personal tastes by stirring in a pinch of cinnamon or a handful of diced walnuts, pecans, almonds, macadamia nuts, or shredded coconut along with the chocolate chips.
Preparing the recipe for a family party or overnight guests? You can easily double or triple all ingredients to feed a large crowd.
The recipe is naturally egg free and can also be oil free, nut free, and sugar free. For those who want keto cookies with no flour, I include an option in the recipe box.
For low carb cookies, try Coconut Flour Cookies
Step by step recipe video
How to make flourless chocolate chip cookies
- Start by preheating the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Blend the oats, baking soda, salt, and sugar in a food processor or blender until the texture resembles that of flour.
- Mix with the chocolate chips, oil or butter, and milk of choice to form a cookie dough. If too dry, slowly add up to one tablespoon additional milk of choice.
- Use either a cookie scoop or your hands to roll cookie dough balls, and place them on a greased baking sheet. The cookies will spread more with butter than with oil, so press each cookie down a little if you use oil and prefer flatter cookies to puffy cookie balls.
- Bake on the oven’s center rack for just eight minutes, remove from the oven, and let them cool an additional ten minutes, during which time they will firm up nicely.
Storage tips and tricks
Store flourless chocolate chip cookies as you would traditional chocolate chip cookies.
Leftovers can be refrigerated or stored in a container or cookie jar.
The cookies should stay fresh for up to a month or possibly longer when covered and stored in a cool, dry place.
Want instant chocolate chip cookies without all the work? Freeze leftovers in an airtight covered container for up to six months. Thaw, and enjoy.
A great trick to keep soft and chewy cookies from turning dry and brittle is to add a small slice of bread to the container.
This chocolate chip cookie recipe inspired my Healthy Oatmeal Cookies.
Flourless Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups rolled oats (for grain free, try these Keto Cookies)
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup chocolate chips
- 2 tbsp butter or oil
- 2 1/2 tbsp milk of choice
Instructions
- To make the flourless chocolate chip cookies, first preheat the oven to 350 F. Blend the first 4 ingredients in a food processor or blender until they form a fine flour consistency. Mix with remaining ingredients to create a cookie dough texture. Using a cookie scoop or your hands, roll or form into balls, and place on a greased cookie sheet. Cook 8 minutes for soft cookies or 10 minutes for crispy cookies. Then remove from the oven when still undercooked. Let cool before handling, and they will firm up. Feel free to double the recipe!View Nutrition Facts
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Notes
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you and I are so alike, it is cookies and only cookies that talk to me, especially chocolate chip! You should see me during the holidays. oh lord watch out, haha. 🙂
What a great recipe! SO simple!! <3 I saw the above comment on how many cookies for this recipe…I would be curious to know about how many cookies/muffins/cupcakes, etc. on average do your recipes yield?
Thanks much! Have an awesome day!
It depends on how big you roll them! I think I got six or seven? LOL I don’t remember… I made them awhile ago. Might be time to make some more! 🙂
OATS in a COOKIE?? Gosh I thought I already ate enough oats, but I guess I need to make these!
I purposely don’t keep food out, because I eat EVERYTHING (vegan).
any sweets,bread {esp bread+butter},snacky things sometimes :/
Hehe! “I speak many languages”…. that cracked me up big time! If I bake something, I eat it. Sometimes I feel like I have to time the baking with when I get hungry otherwise I will get a tummy ache :(. I know it sounds lame, but every time I open the fridge and a carton of blueberries or raspberries is staring me in the face, I just cant resist. YUM!
There is a special relationship between me and all kinds of cookies. I can never resist a good cookie and oat cookies are among my closest friends 🙂 . Other things I hardly ever say no to are nuts, dried fruit and the bag of bran flakes.
Oh those look great! Flourless and just using whole oats and brown sugar…I bet the chewy texture is PERFECT! That would totally be my kinda texture.
I have made a few versions of flourless cookies the past few weeks but they involve PB, too. As a binder. The fact that you got these to hold together and they’re vegan, GF, eggless and no chia/flax eggs, etc, and no nut butter or applesauce, you’re good girl. Very good! 🙂
Plenty of foods speak to me…but ED told me not to listen for a long time (still fighting it!) However, ignoring calorie counts (my downfall), I would not want to pass up fresh pineapple, cold and crisp pink lady apples, sweet potato fries, carrots with hummus, guacamole, nuts, and samples of fresh whole grain bread! (like Whole Foods)
Yum! I love oats in desserts.
As for things I have no self control over…list is very long. Chocolate, of course. But then I always want something salty. So I go back and forth. It’s a very vicious cycle. I usually like to end on salty/savory, which is weird to most people!
I can not pass on brownies…ever. Or cheese and crackers!