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Healthy Strawberry Oatmeal Cookies! Chewy and creamy cookies filled with Greek yogurt, lemon, applesauce, and fresh strawberries. A tasty breakfast or anytime snack under 100 calories! They're also Gluten-Free + Low-Calorie!
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These cookies are creamy, chewy, packed with protein and whole grains, and bursting with citrus and sweet fresh strawberries. They're similar to my healthy strawberry shortcake recipe.
I don't know about you, but I can never say no to a cookie for breakfast, or lunch, or dinner, or any time of day. Much less a healthy cookie that's less than 100 calories. That means you can have two right?
These homemade Strawberry Cookies are a healthy snack or breakfast with no refined sugar or oil. Keep a batch in the freezer for a yummy snack you can enjoy year-round!
Love healthy cookies? Try my zucchini chocolate cookies and lemon cashew cookies next!
Why You Will Love This Strawberry Cookie Recipe
- Fresh Strawberry Cookies: These cookies have bits of real strawberries in them giving the cookies a burst of fresh berry flavor.
- So Easy to Make: Thanks to the blender these cookies go together quickly and easily!
- Healthy Strawberry Cookies: They get a boost of protein from Greek yogurt which also keeps them moist without any adding oil. Plus they're gluten-free and less than 100 calories per cookie.
Ingredients
- Strawberries: Choose fresh ripe strawberries for the best flavor when making these strawberry baked goods.
- Greek yogurt: Use non-fat to keep these healthy cookies lower in fat and calories.
- Lemon extract: The citrus flavor of the lemon extract pairs perfectly with the berries. An easy substitute is pure vanilla extract which adds balance and warmth.
- Egg white: Just one to help bind everything together.
- Applesauce: Make sure it's unsweetened to keep this recipe refined sugar-free.
- Coconut sugar: A less processed sugar that's similar to brown sugar. You can swap it with another type of sugar or alternative sugar if you prefer.
- Oats: These low-calorie cookies require a combination of oat flour and rolled oats. Make sure they're gluten-free if you need to keep the cookies free of any gluten. Do not substitute the oat flour with regular flour as the cookies will not turn out the same.
- Leavening: You will need a combination of baking powder and baking soda to give a bit of a lift to the cookies.
- Salt: Brings all the flavors together.
Looking for more healthy strawberry desserts? You're going to love these strawberry shortcake energy bites and my recipe for strawberry bread.
Strawberry Cookie Variations
- Strawberry Chocolate Chip Cookies: Add dark chocolate chips or your favorite brand of dairy-free chocolate chips for chocolate chip strawberry cookies.
- Use Different Berries: These cookies also work with blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries.
- Add Nuts: Add some chopped pecans, walnuts, or almonds to the strawberry cookies from scratch for a bit of crunch.
How to Make Strawberry Oatmeal Cookies
When you're ready to start making your cookies, start by heating the oven to 375 F and preparing a baking sheet with parchment paper. Here are the simple steps for how to make strawberry cookies in the blender.
Step 1: Combine the egg white, applesauce, lemon juice, Greek yogurt, salt, baking powder, baking soda, coconut sugar, and oat flour in a blender or food processor.
Step 2: Blend until the ingredients are fully combined and then transfer the dough to a mixing bowl.
Step 3: Add the strawberries and oats to the cookie dough.
Step 4: Gently fold until they are mixed into the cookie batter.
Step 5: Use a small ice cream scoop to drop about two tablespoons of cookie dough onto the prepared baking sheet.
Step 6: Bake for about 10 minutes until the edges of the cookies are just beginning to brown. Remove from the oven and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Expert Tips
- Use a Cookie Scoop: This ensures your cookies are evenly sized so they will also cook more evenly. If you don't have one a tablespoon measure works well too.
- Use Fresh Strawberries: Frozen strawberries have too much moisture in them and will not work well in this recipe.
- Store: These strawberry cookies must be stored in the refrigerator since they contain fresh fruit. Transfer the cooled cookies to an airtight container and store them for up to 7 days. You can also freeze them for up to one month.
- Serving: Enjoy a strawberry cookie for breakfast, snack, or dessert following a meal.
Recipe FAQs
The cookie dough is on the loose side and may spread out a bit once you drop the dough onto the pan but not too much. In the oven, they don't spread out any further. I still like to bake them with a bit of space in between.
Use the baking time as a guide to determine readiness and bake the cookies on a rack in the center of the oven. The cookies will brown slightly on the bottom and appear set in the center when they are ready to remove from the oven.
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Healthy Strawberry Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup strawberries hulled and thinly sliced
- â…” cup nonfat Greek yogurt
- ½ teaspoon lemon extract or vanilla
- 1 egg white
- â…“ cup unsweetened applesauce
- â…“ cup coconut sugar
- 1 cup Gluten Free oat flour
- ÂĽ cup Gluten Free Rolled Oats
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ÂĽ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 375 F. Prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a blender or food processor, combine egg white, applesauce, lemon juice, Greek yogurt, salt, baking powder, baking soda, coconut sugar and oat flour.
- Blend until ingredients are fully combined then transfer the dough to a mixing bowl and carefully fold in the strawberries and oats.
- Use a small ice cream scoop to drop ~2 tbsp of batter onto the prepared baking sheet.
- Bake 10 minutes until the edges of the cookies are just beginning to brown.
- Remove from the oven, transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Keep cookies in a container in the refrigerator up to one week.
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Notes
- Use a Cookie Scoop: This ensures your cookies are evenly-sized which means they will also cook more evenly. If you don't have one a tablespoon measure works well too.
- Store: These strawberry cookies must be stored in the refrigerator since they contain fresh fruit. Transfer the cooled cookies to an airtight container and store for up to 7 days. You can also freeze them for up to one month.
- Serving: Enjoy a strawberry cookie for breakfast, snack, or dessert following a meal.
- Use Fresh Strawberries: Frozen strawberries have too much moisture in them and will not work well in this recipe.
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Think I could premake dough or cookies and freeze? Having twins next week and think this could be great breastfeeding snack. Just trying to premake as much as possible.
You could definitely pre-make the cookies and freeze them!
Hello,
Do you happen to know if using stevia instead of coconut sugar will drastically change the texture? And any thoughts for high altitude?
Much appreciation
I'm guessing omitting the coconut sugar will slightly flatten the cookies. As for the high altitude, I have no experience baking in high altitudes. Maybe Google has some tips?
Can you use frozen strawberries?
I'm sure you could. They would have to be thawed and dried a bit so they don't overly wet the batter and make it runny.
Thank you so much!
Do you know of non dairy yogurt will work? allergic to dairy!
Hi Megan! Yes non dairy yogurt should work here.
That look amazing recipe .I like it and this recipe delicious yummy
I recently tried these and the batter was really soupy! Was yours this way too?
Nope not at all!
I've made this twice now and they turned out great. I used light brown sugar, not packed, in place of the coconut sugar though. And I ground my own oat flour in my food processor.
These sound INCREDIBLE! Pinning right now!
Thank you!
See you soon! I want a cooookiie
If only I could bring them!
You are all about the strawberries lately. And omg I didn't know about the first year you tried to come. That's crazy!! I"m pumped to see you soooooooon!
Oh yeah, almost had a heart attack that year I was super stressed!
Yeahhhh Blogfest! See you soon roomie!!
YEEAAAASSSS!
Have an amazing time at blogfest! I think you deserve an easy time this year 🙂
I couldn't agree more!
These look delicious! Can't wait to see you there! I've never been before either!
First timers yeah! I have a feeling it's gonna be fun.
So much protein in one low-cal cookie! LOVE these! I bet they taste amazing, too.
Have a great trip! I'm so glad that you can make it this year!
Me too! Make some cookies for me, mmk?