Skinny Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
These healthier oatmeal chocolate chip cookies have NO sugar, NO white flour, and only 2 tablespoons of butter in the whole batch! They are the perfect way to satisfy your mad chocolate cravings when you are supposed to be losing holiday pounds.
I saw this bumper sticker today: “How’s my driving? Shoot me a text.” HA!
So my best friend Sarah announced on Facebook yesterday that she had just spent 4 hours creating the “Daniel Craig in Casino Royale 6 Week Meal Plan” as requested by her husband, and if anyone wanted a copy they could shoot her an email. (Click HERE if you want to see it! Thanks Sarah!) It is exactly what it sounds like: 40 days of meals similar to what Daniel Craig ate while training to be James Bond.
Eric and I were talking later and he was wondering if he should do it. I said no, I prefer soft bellies actually (mine included, most importantly). And I also said, “Daniel Craig is like 65 and not cute. Like a grandpa. But with abs. It’s disturbing.”
And he said, “You’re just wrong, Karen. Daniel Craig is legitimately hot.”
Well there you go, Daniel Craig. You win today. I think my husband has a man-crush on you.
But really, am I the only one?? Pierce Brosnan made a much sexier James Bond if you ask me.
Are you following a diet or any kind of meal plan this January? I had plans. But I also just ate 2 cookies, so…
But at least they were healthy-ish ones! My friend Amy from Amy’s Healthy Baking wrote a book all about Healthier Chocolate Treats and this is one of her recipes. How cool is that?? She is so talented. Her blog is all about healthy baking. (Check out these Healthy Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies. They look amazing!)
And there is even more chocolate in the book. In every recipe actually! My kind of cookbook.
These Skinny Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies are perfect for January! (Or anyone who’s trying to look like Daniel Craig…) They are moist and lightly spiced with cinnamon. Amy bakes hers with agave, but I didn’t have any so I subbed honey. It changed the flavor of course, but I like it! Gave it another dimension. The other thing I love about this recipe is that it only makes 15 cookies–or 12 if you are a dough fanatic like me–so you don’t have leftovers lying around for days (like when I make my Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies.)
Left: the dough is very sticky. Right: here’s what melty warm cookies look like after you stack them up to take photos…guess I better eat them. All. (Daniel Craig abs, here I come. I’m just trying to please you, Eric.)
If you love healthy baking definitely check out Amy’s book. It has over 50 tried and true recipes!
If you make these cookies, snap a photo and tag #thefoodcharlatan on social. Remember to tag #HealthierChocolateTreats too so that Amy can see it! I’m sure she would love that!
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Skinny Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Makes 12-15 cookies adjust servingsIngredients
- 1 cup quick oats
- 3/4 cup whole wheat flour, spooned and leveled
- 1 and 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 and 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
- scant 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted and cooled
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 cup honey
- about 1/2 to 3/4 cup dark chocolate chips, divided
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper or a silpat.
- Pull out 2 medium bowls, one for dry ingredients, one for wet.
- In one bowl, whisk together the oats, flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt.
- Melt the butter in the other bowl. You don't have to melt it all the way, if there are a couple lumps it's okay. Let cool slightly.
- Whisk in the vanilla, then the egg. Whisk in the honey.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and use a wooden spoon to stir until it has just come together (don't overdo it).
- Save out about half of the chocolate chips. Use a sharp knife to roughly chop the remaining chocolate, then fold it into the dough.
- Refrigerate the dough for about 30 minutes, or freeze for about 15 minutes.
- Use your hands to shape the dough into roughly 15 cookies (or 12 if you eat a lot of dough like me...)
- Place on the prepared baking sheet about 2 inches apart.
- Bake in the preheated oven for about 12-13 minutes, or until they have just started to brown on the edges.
- Once you remove them from the oven, immediately press the remaining chocolate chips into the tops of the cookies.
- Let cool on the pan for a few minutes before removing to a cooling rack.
- Drink with lots of milk!
by The Food Charlatan
Source: slightly adapted from Amy’s book Healthier Chocolate Treats
Here are some other cookie recipes you will love no doubt!
Skinny Texas Cowboy Cookies << these cookies also have very little butter and no white flour! They have lots of fun mix-ins!
Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies <<one of the top recipes on my blog!
Edible Egg-Free Brown Butter Cookie Dough: <<< why bother baking when all you want is dough sometimes.
Coconut Frosted Sugar Cookies with Strawberry Hearts: << these are perfectly cute for Valentine’s Day!
More healthy baked treats from my girls!
Best-Ever Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies from Chelsea’s Messy Apron
Heart Healthier Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies from Crazy fro Crust
Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake from Food Faith Fitness
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These were OK. Only OK – probably won’t go into the “keep” pile but will rather continue the search for a tastier “healthy” oatmeal chocolate chip.
The dough is really hard to work with even when refrigerated..it was pretty wet and sticky (and yes, followed recipe to a ‘T’). I would recommend you freeze them instead of the refrigerate option, that might make it easier. That being said after scooping the dough out I was ready for these to cook into a mess, but they did cook relatively nice and flat with a puffy top. But, unfortunately these are way too “cakey” and not necessarily moist. I would much prefer my oatmeal cookies with whole oats I think, grinding them up for quick oats just doesn’t create anything satisfying.
I’ll agree with some of the other posters that these have too much of a honey taste. It appears this recipe was cribbed from another location in the notes and that agave is the original ingredient. I would keep it that way – probably a reason that was the original recipe in the published work.
Finally, I think instructions to carve up the chocolate chips is a huge mistake. This totally reduces the chocolate flavor. Instead of trying to evenly distribute them by making them smaller you simply dilute the flavor too much and loose any semblance of them being a chocolate chip cookie. If it weren’t for the pressing the chips into the top of the cookie (a totally superfluous and ridiculous step AFAIAC) these wouldn’t pass for chocolate chip cookies in any way.
I’ve got a six year old right now who has turned them down after trying them while I write this…so I think that is all that really needs to be said. I won’t say they were a waste of ingredients as some others have posted, but I’m not really sure they are worth even the ~160 calories (dozen batch).
Thanks for the try, but mostly a wash.
I’m sorry you didn’t love them Ben! Thanks for the detailed review!
These are good, but too much cinnamon. I would make them again but only use 1/2 tsp rather than 1 1/2.
These are seriously good. Went to make them and my oven decided to pack it in so pulled out my airfryer and they turned out fine in it. Only one gripe – the dough tastes so good I may have eaten too much 😂
okay this is AWESOME!! I didn’t know you could make cookies in the air fryer! I need to get myself one of those! so fun! And I have the same gripe about this cookie dough, and basically any cookie dough ever ;) thanks for commenting Sarah!
Hi ! Could please provide the nutrition information. This would help since my family member has type 2 diabetes.
Thank you,
Cindy
Hey Cindy! No, I don’t know the nutritional info, but there are lots of online calculators you can try out!
Cindy,
I have Type 2 Diabetes and I would not even think about eating these cookies. Between the honey, oats, and wheat flour, it’s too much to spike my blood sugar.
People with diabetes have to look at the whole picture and not just sugar content. Carbs are converted into sugar in the bloodstream and that will raise Blood Glucose levels. I check labels for carb/fiber/sugar levels. Wheat flour may be high in fiber, but it still leaves you with a lot of carbs that will contribute to blood glucose spikes. For your family member, search around for recipes that are low carb and zero sugar. Most of those recipes will use coconut or almond flour and a sweetener like Stevia or Monk Fruit. in the meantime, here’s a page with a listing of breads and flours with their carb/fiber counts so you can make a decision for yourself.
https://www.thediabetescouncil.com/best-bread-for-people-with-diabetes/
Hi. I made this recipe before and it’s great. But one question what kind of chocolate chips you use, what brand? I can’t never get my chocolate chips to melt like in the picture. Hope you can reply.
Hey Isel! I always use Ghirardelli for dark chips. Here’s a link to the kind I buy at the store. I use Nestle for semi sweet. Trader Joe’s chocolate chips also melt really well I hear.
Can I please have the nutritional information for this recipe? Thanks so much!
Hey Tanya! I don’t provide nutritional info on my recipes, but there are lots of online calculators you can plug it into!
Is there any way you can make these without butter? Maybe subbing in oil or something? I can’t eat dairy :(
Hey Ella! Scroll through the comments, I’m pretty sure people have made these with coconut oil. You will sacrifice a little bit of flavor but they will still be delicious! I actually just looked, one comment from Brigitte says, “I baked these cookies, I added walnuts and used maple syrup and coconut oil ,instead of butter and honey . They were the best cookies I ever made.”
Try it out!
You can also use vegan butter :)
Oh really! Good tip Bethany, thanks!
I love this recipe!!!! ❤️
Made these with almond flour and a few cranrsisins and nutmeg added. Delicious!! Wondering how may calories? Oh, i subbed maple syrup for honey.
that sounds delicious Tina! No, I don’t know how many calories, but I bet you could find a calculator online somewhere!
WAYYY TOO MUCH HONEY!!! i basically tastes like youre just eating honey, cooked for the required time and still came out un-cooked. will not make these ever again. there is no way this recipe works and shame on you for publishing it. What a waste of ingedients!!!!
Hey Tyler! I’m sorry you didn’t like them! That’s a bummer. I think it’s just personal preference though, because hundreds (and hundreds!) of people have made these cookies as written and loved them :) It also sounds like you under baked them? Every oven is different so times will vary.
Why are these cookies considered skinny?
Hey Cheryl! They are low in fat! :)