Spiced Apple Oatmeal Cookies

Gluten-free and dairy-free

I love anything apple, cinnamon, and oatmeal!

Probably one of my favorite combinations ever and these cookies turned out exactly how I wanted. I purposefully made sure these cookies are sweet, but not too sweet because I wanted to be able to have them for breakfast OR dessert. Who doesn't want cookies for breakfast!

Give these cookies a try, they are easy and will not disappoint?!

Ingredients:

2 cups gluten-free oats

1 1/4 cup gluten-free all-purpose flour

1/4 cup coconut flour

2 Tbsp ground flax

2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1 Tbsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp nutmeg

1/4 tsp ground cloves

2 eggs + 1 egg yolk

1 Tbsp vanilla

1/4 cup coconut oil, melted

1/2 cup maple syrup

1 1/2 cups apple, cut in small cubes

Icing:

1/4 cup coconut oil, melted

1 Tbsp maple syrup

1 scoop vanilla protein

1/2 tsp cinnamon

Servings 25

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350f

- In a large bowl, mix together flour, baking powder, salt, flax, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ground cloves.

- In a separate bowl mix together eggs, coconut oil, vanilla, and maple syrup. Stir wet ingredients into dry until just combined.

- Fold in the apples until evenly distributed throughout the cookie dough.

- On a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, scoop out roughly two tablespoons of cookie dough and place on the parchment paper. Lightly press each cookie down with the back of a spoon.

- Bake for 13 - 15 minutes

Icing Directions:

After cookies have completely cooled, mix together coconut oil, maple syrup, cinnamon,

and protein powder. Continue to mix every few minutes as the icing starts to set until it reaches piping consistency. Fill a piping bag or plastic ziplock bag with icing. Cut a small hole in the corner of the bag and pipe icing onto cookies.

Note:

Normally I love cookies warm however these cookies were even BETTER when they were kept in the fridge!

I am quarantined alone so I definitely would not have been able to finish 25 cookies by myself before they went bad. I ended up freezing them in bags of six that way I could easily just pull them out to thaw and have them for the next couple of days. They freeze surprisingly well!