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These delicately sweet Raspberry Oatmeal Cookies are both soft and chewy. They’re made with tart raspberries and rolled oats and naturally sweetened with honey instead of sugar.
If you love raspberries, you’ll love these easy raspberry cookies. They can be made with fresh or frozen berries and are gluten and dairy-free. They’re ideal for an afternoon treat or after-dinner dessert. The whole family and any of your friends are sure to love them!
If you like raspberry recipes, you will love my Raspberry Crumb Bars and Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies!
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Perfect Soft and Chewy Cookie: These oatmeal raspberry cookies are both soft and chewy. They are the perfect fruit-filled berry cookie.
- Low Calorie: These healthy oatmeal cookies are just 120 calories and use simple, basic ingredients. Better for you than store-bought cookies with preservatives and much fewer calories too.
- Refreshing Fruity Flavor: Raspberries are both tart and sweet. Their strong flavor comes through in the cookies, making them fruity and delicious.
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Ingredients
- Oat Flour: This flour is an excellent source of protein and fiber and can be found gluten-free. If you can’t find this particular flour in the store, you can make your own by blending rolled oats in a food processor until they reach a flour-like consistency.
- Rolled Oats: The rolled oats in this raspberry cookie recipe give the cookies their perfect chewy consistency.
- Egg White: The egg helps bind the cookies together and adds a bit of protein. Egg whites have fewer calories than whole eggs, which makes these cookies a little lower in fat content.
- Coconut Oil: Melted coconut oil takes the place of butter in this recipe. Unlike butter, it doesn’t contain water, so the result is a softer and richer cookie.
- Honey: Instead of refined sugar, this recipe uses honey as a natural sweetener. You could also use maple syrup instead.
- Raspberries: Use fresh berries or frozen berries for these cookies to bring out the raspberry flavor.
See the recipe card below for exact ingredient amounts, nutritional information, and detailed instructions.
Variations & Dietary Modifications
- Try Them with Different Berries: You can swap out the berries for blackberries, blueberries, or even chopped strawberries. This changes the flavor, but they will all taste delicious.
- Add Chocolate Chips: Give these cookies a bit of chocolatey flavor with chocolate chips or white chocolate chunks. I use chocolate chips in my raspberry chocolate oatmeal cookies, and they taste delicious!
- Give Them a Nutty Crunch: If you love a bit of crunch in your oatmeal cookies, add some chopped walnuts or macadamia nuts to the batter of these cookies.
How to Make Raspberry Oatmeal Cookies
These healthy raspberry cookies are the perfect light cookie that doesn’t contain butter or added sugar. They only take 15 minutes to bake, and all you need is an oven preheated to 325°F and a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Step 1: Make the Dough. Combine the egg white, honey, salt, cinnamon, and almond extract using a stand mixer and a hand mixer. Then slowly add the oats, oat flour, and baking powder to the dough. Once the dry ingredients are added, stir in the melted coconut oil.
- Step 2: Add the Berries. After the dough is mixed, add the raspberries. Fold them in and break them up a bit if you’re using fresh berries.
- Step 3: Scoop Out the Cookies and Bake. Use a cookie scoop or a spoon to scoop out 10 equal portions of dough balls and place them on the baking sheet. Bake the cookies for 13-15 minutes at 325°F until the edges start to brown. Remove them from the oven and allow them to cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes. Then move them to a wire rack to finish cooling or enjoy them warm.
Expert Tips
- Add the Coconut Oil to the Dough, Not Just the Liquids: Add the coconut oil to the batter after mixing in the dry ingredients to prevent it from hardening and forming clumps of coconut oil in the cookies.
- Measure the Flour Properly: In baking, it’s especially important to measure the flour properly. It’s best to scoop out the flour to measure it instead of packing it into measuring cups.
- Chill the Dough: For thicker cookies, refrigerate the dough for 30 minutes before baking them.
- Store Them Properly: Store these cookies in an airtight container for 5 days or freeze them for up to 60 days. Thaw frozen cookies in the refrigerator for 24 hours before enjoying them. Don’t heat these cookies as the coconut oil will melt too much.
Serving Suggestions
These cookies with fresh raspberries are the perfect spring and summer cookie because of the light, fruity flavor. You can certainly enjoy them year-round, but I love the flavor paired with bright citrus and springtime flavors. These are perfect for snacking on at a garden party or for a light dessert.
- Raspberries and lemon go so well together. I love to have one or two raspberry cookies for dessert after enjoying lemon garlic chicken for dinner.
- Looking for a great dish to take to a spring party or summer barbecue? My quinoa tabouleh salad goes well with these raspberry cookies.
- Use your leftover raspberries in a Greek yogurt fruit salad so they don’t go to waste. The fruit salad also tastes great with the cookies!
Raspberry Oatmeal Cookies Recipe FAQs
The raspberries may add too much moisture to the cookies as they bake. Pat fresh berries dry and add frozen berries straight to the cookie dough without thawing to avoid too much water in the dough.
The juices from the raspberries may leak from the cookies and caramelize on the bottom of the baking sheet. Don’t skip lining the pan with parchment paper to avoid this from happening.
Sure! This is a great way to prep ahead so you can bake 1-2 cookies whenever the mood hits. Mix the cookie dough and scoop it onto a parchment-lined baking tray. Freeze for an hour and then transfer to a storage container. When ready to bake, place the frozen cookie dough on a baking tray and bake, adding 2-3 additional minutes since the dough is frozen.
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Raspberry Oatmeal Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 large Egg White
- ¼ cup Honey
- 1 teaspoon Almond Extract, or vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon Salt
- ¾ cup Oat Flour, or gluten-free oat flour
- 1 cup Rolled Oats, or gluten-free rolled oats
- ½ teaspoon Baking Powder
- 2 tablespoons Coconut Oil, or oil of choice
- ⅛ cup Raspberries
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 F and prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper or a slip mat.
- Using a standing mixer or hand mixer, combine egg white, honey, almond extract cinnamon and salt and mix fully. To the mixture add oats, flour and baking powder. Then add coconut oil stirring to incorporate.
- Add the raspberries to the batter, breaking them up a bit. Divide the batter by 10 and scoop onto your prepared baking sheet to make 10 cookies.
- Bake 13-15 minutes until a bit brown. Remove from the oven and cool 5 minutes on the baking sheet before removing and cooling fully on a wire rack and devouring!
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Notes
- Do not use quick oats or instant oatmeal for the recipe. Use ROLLED OATS.
- Do not substitute the honey as this holds the cookies together best.
- Add coconut oil after the dry ingredients to prevent clumps of hardened coconut oil from forming in the dough and finished cookies.
- Measure the flour properly when making these muffins so you don’t end up with dry cookies.
- Almond flour and coconut flour will not work to substitute the oat flour in this recipe. I recommend using this almond flour cookie recipe instead and adding raspberries.
- Chill the dough for 30 minutes before baking the cookies in the oven to ensure they don’t flatten while baking.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Made these and they came out amazing! I also indulged and added some melted dark chocolate drizzle on top 😉
What a treat!
Do the raspberries need to be frozen? And do I need to chop them up a little but or do they shrink in the baking process ?
The raspberries do not need to be frozen. You don’t need to chop them. As you fold them into the batter, they will naturally disintegrate into the batter.
Hi Megan!
Thanks for the recipe. These cookies look great! Seeing a few inconsistencies in the recipe though – at the top it says to bake for 5 minutes, but then in your instructions it says 10-15. Also, the ingredients list says to get almond extract, but then the instructions mention vanilla.
Please help! lol
Thanks again,
Carly
Hi Carly! Updates have been applied to the recipe card. Thanks for catching this!
I do not have whole wheat flour right now, but I really want to bake these. Would regular flour work as a substitute?
I would imagine you could. I never use regular flour so I can’t guarantee it will work with the same measurements.
Baking is the BEST way to relieve stress! ESPECIALLY when it ends in cookies…with raspberry. And oatmeal.
Seriously girlfriend, these sound like the most perfect cookies ever!
Thanks girl! I’m all about the oatmeal and cookies. Haha!
While I have no clue what exactly stress management classes recommend I know for me the combination of fresh air, moving and cooking/baking helps. Today that meant heading fo a walk despite the cold temperatures and then choppping and simmering vegetables for a delicious home-cooked meal.
These cookies look like a great win-win in the stress relieve department.
That sounds like the perfect day! I think we all need more them.
I am stressed a lot for sure & these cookies would help!!! 🙂
Baking and working out will help!
Mmm those look delicious – can’t wait to try them!
Enjoy!
Hah hah! Isn’t that ironic?! Forget about the breathing exercises…baking totally counts as a stress-reliever in my book (unless there are toddlers involved…then it’s just STRESSFUL)! Have a great weekend, Megan!
I thought about writing that in my paper, but opted not to. 🙂
Your classes sound crazy fun actually. I would love to learn some stress coping techniques. Lately I’ve been a pile of nerves. These cookies would help. Usually my zen place is in the kitchen or reading cookbooks/blogs. You my dear are my stress relief!!
It will get better! Have faith. 🙂