These healthy and vegan Oreos give you the same deliciousness of the original, without all the high fructose corn syrup or trans fat!
America’s favorite cookie gets a healthy makeover –
Unlike Oreos, the cookies above can be whole-grain, with no soy, corn syrup, or artificial flavors.
They are also much lower in sugar than packaged Oreos, and they just so happen to be vegan as well!
And just in case you were wondering…
Yes, they really do taste like Oreos.
Maybe better. Homemade always tastes better.
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Do you know any Oreo lovers?
Oreos are known as America’s favorite cookie, with over 70 million Oreos sold each day!
Who is eating all those Oreos???
Healthy Vegan Oreos
These healthy and vegan Oreos give you the same deliciousness of the original, without all the high fructose corn syrup or trans fat.
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup spelt, white, or oat flour
- 6 tbsp dutch cocoa powder – regular cocoa is fine; they just won’t taste as authentic
- 6 tbsp unrefined or regular sugar, or xylitol for sugar-free
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup vegetable or coconut oil
- 3 tbsp milk of choice
- 2 tbsp pure maple syrup, honey, or agave
Instructions
- *For the Oreo filling, beat together 1/2 cup powdered sugar or sugar free powdered sugar, 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract, and 1/4 cup melted coconut butter OR non-hydrogenated shortening (such as Spectrum) or Earth Balance spread, either with beaters or a food processor, or patiently by hand, until completely smooth.For the Oreos, combine first 5 cookie ingredients, and stir very well. In a separate bowl, combine remaining ingredients for the cookies. Mix wet into dry to form a dough, then refrigerate 30 minutes before baking. Preheat oven to 300 F. Put dough in a plastic bag, and smush into one big ball. Remove from bag, roll into a thin dough, and cut flat circles using a circle cutter or a circle-shaped lid. Bake on a greased cookie tray for 10 minutes; they’ll still look a little underdone when they come out of the oven, but that’s okay. It's important to allow them to cool 10 minutes before removing from the tray, as they firm up during this time. Put about a teaspoon on half of the cookie discs, then top each with remaining cookie discs and refrigerate to set. Store in the fridge so the filling stays hard.View Oreos Nutrition Facts
Notes
Also be sure to try these Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies.
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Oh my, these look wonderful! I don’t have the filling ingredients on-hand, but I may whip up some sort of peanut butter frosting/icing/goo. Thanks for the recipe!
I have you to thank for my re-found love of Oreos, Katie! My go-to dessert is your Chocolate Fudge Pie (oh my word, is that heavenly!), but I make it with an Oreo-cookie crust instead of pie crust … and inevitably I have leftover Oreos, and well, someone has to eat them! I know they’re not good for me, but I love them oh so much. I will most definitely be trying these though, too. 🙂
Ahhhh! You are the BEST!!! I can’t even tell you how excited I am for this. Oreos were my favorite cookie growing up, but I haven’t had one in years.
I agree with you that homemade is always better. Definately going to try these babies out!
Yummy! I’ve done homemade oreos, too, so good.
However, I wouldn’t like to use coconut butter. They’d taste like coconut cookies, not like oreos!
Coconut butter doesn’t actually taste like coconut ;).
It doesn’t? Well, my coconut butter, whether store bought or homemade, DOES definitelly taste like coconut!
I love coconut butter and make it regularly, but I have to agree with Tanya that it certainly DOES taste like coconut.
When using unprocessed coconut butter, it SHOULD taste like coconut. If it doesn’t, it seems like that has been deodorized, etc…
The unrefined one tastes more like coconut. When you have delicate tasting things you should use the refined one ( doesn’t taste coconut)
Oh, the bad part is, in Europe, store bought Oreos are NOT vegan!
It’s just the american ones. So mean.
So I actually have to make homemade oreos – or order them from the US. Which is way to expensive! But sometimes, a friends brings me a box or two 😉
By “coconut butter” you do mean like Artisana’s, or could coconut oil be used? I know that the products are very different and that generally, they are not interchangeable. Since shortening can be used, I am wondering if coconut oil could too, for those of us who have that on hand and want less of an overall coconut flavor.
I wouldn’t recommend coconut oil for this.
I used Earth Balance buttery spread w/Palm Oil (already in the spread). I find this product gives it a a good butter-like consistency and flavor. Works better than shortening.
These look great, Katie dear! Now the question is, are you going to tackle Golden Oreos and/or Birthday Cake Oreos next? 😉
That sounds like a fantastic idea! I used to love Golden Oreos before I went vegan and unprocessed.
What are Golden Oreos?? I’ve never heard of them!!! Haha us Aussies must be a little deprived!
They were like oreos, but instead of chocolate cookies, they were vanilla cookies. I am more of a vanilla girl myself. 🙂
Holy cow Katie! I adore the idea of making processed foods from scratch. I want to mash that entire cookie up in a bowl of your vanilla ice milk. Cookies ‘n’ cream. Ta da!
I’m an oreo lover, especially when they are dunked into a glass of milk! I will definitely be giving this recipe a try!
Even better when dunked in raw milk!!! 😀
These sound amazing. I wouldn’t have to feel guilty for eating them!!
These are my favorite cookies! My dad made a homemade version but they weren’t nearly as healthy or vegan. This is awesome!
I used to LOVE oreos! They were a staple in my house growing up!
Finally you did it!!! Thank you soooo much Katie, gonna try those tomorrow after university, since its in the middle of the night here in Germany and my mom would kill me if baking right now!!! Cant wait!
Katie. I think I love you more each day! (in a non-creepy, dessert only way).
I’ve been waiting for this recipe to arrive and it finally did! Thank you so much Katie!
I actually do know an Oreo lover- me! The gf kind just doesn’t taste the same as a the Nabisco brand. Can’t wait to make these! 😀
I ate all of those Oreos…….I’m vegan and try not to eat processed foods, but I make a special exception for Oreos.
K-Toos are a pretty close second in gf brands
And Newman’s Own makes a really good wheat-free (non-gf) variety