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These soft and chewy Healthy Raspberry Oatmeal Cookies are loaded with whole grains and dancing with raspberries. With no refined sugar, these charming goodies make an irresistible treat!
You guys, I’m having homework insomnia right now. Is that even a thing? I’m supposed to be doing stress relieving exercises, but I have zero motivation to do them.
In fact, the stress relieving exercises are stressing me out! For two weeks, I have to track events that stress me out then do relaxation exercises and document my experience.
GAH! This is so not my thing. I mean realistically who is gonna have an argument with their boss then say to them “I feel a stressful event coming on will you please excuse me while I lie down to do my breathing exercises?”
So many things in the world are thought out way more than they need to be and this is an example of one of them. Just keeping it real people!
Don’t get me wrong, I love my nutrition classes but the stress course is well, stressful. The professor has two discussion questions for the class to complete each week with the purpose of interacting with each other on the content.
However they’re more like 2,000 word essays instead of what they should be, a discussion. Whew I feel better now that I got that off my chest!
In order to alleviate the anxiety I was feeling from these goofy stress assignments, I headed to the kitchen to do what I do best. bake! And in keeping with the sweets theme this week, I made you a batch of delicious Raspberry Oatmeal Cookies. Now these aren’t just any cookies. They’re soft and chewy and healthy!
The best part? They’re clean! These Raspberry Oatmeal Cookies are lightly sweetened with honey, cinnamon and studded with the star of the show… raspberries. Yes peeps you heard me right. Sweetened with nature’s goodness! And you want to know what else?
They’re only 81 calories. I Uh-huh, Uh-huh dance party! These tasty Raspberry Oatmeal Cookies are great for breakfast, lunch, dinner, a snack or when you need a little stress relief {or an excuse to procrastinate}. Maybe baking should be a stress relieving exercise?
Want more healthy cookie recipes? Try these Raspberry Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies, Almond Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies and Blueberry Yogurt Cookies next!
Healthy Raspberry Oatmeal Cookies
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup Gluten Free oat flour, or regular oat flour
- 1 cup Gluten Free Rolled Oats, or regular rolled oats
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 large egg white
- 2 tablespoons coconut oil, melted
- 1 teaspoon almond extract, or vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1/8 cup raspberries
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
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, salt, cinnamon and almond extract 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!
Notes
- I add the coconut oil to the flour batter instead of the liquid mixture. This prevents it from hardening and getting clumps of coconut oil in the cookies.
- Measure the flour properly when making these muffins or you will end up with 2 times the amount of dry ingredients than you need.
- Store cookies in the refrigerator up to 5 days or in the freezer up to 60 days.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Oh my goodness!! I asked for a *sign* today for what I should bake next and these cookies literally spoke to me….they look SO good!!
When I’m stressed, I literally end up in the kitchen with a mixing bowl and start whipping something fierce up…sometimes I have no idea how I freaking got there, but it’s my stress release ; )
xxoo
Kris
It was meant to be!
These cookies are perfect for snack, breakfast or anytime!
You will love them!
De-stressing exercises stress me out, too. My brain is like, when is this over so I can do the stuff that’s stressing me out?! Probably a sign I need to do more of them lol. Deep breathing does really seem to help, though.
You might like Pema Chodron- her CD “Getting Unstuck” is the perfect segway for people who are “bad” at meditation. I absolutely love her!
Good to know I’m not the only one bad at mediation! I’ll have to checkout that CD.
Baking is my favorite stress release. There’s something about the process that’s comforting. Eating the results helps too. 😉
And some wine. 🙂
For me, exercise doesn’t relieve stress that much. I know it works for a lot of people but sadly I am not one of them.
These cookies look great. I’m a big raspberry and oatmeal fan.
Everyone has their own thing that works from them. That’s what makes everyone unique!
Oh Im so with you – I’m totally a stress baker. Though I’m also a stress boxer. I hit that punching bag sometimes for an hour. I feel so much better though. Except THEN I want to bake 😉
Love how simple but delicious these are! Pinning and trying out for sure!
Haha, maybe I need one of those boxing bags?
These sound so amazing, Megan! Raspberries are my all-time favorite fruit, so you know I’ll be giving these a try!
Oh you will love them then Beth! Let me know how they turn out.
Stress management is such an individual thing. For me, I have to do something. Watching TV or whatever helps me to put it off, but actually going out and running or doing yoga, it helps get me in the right state of mind to deal with problems, etc, and then I do deal with said problems and actually reduce my stress.
I am the same. I need to do something active to get it out of me. We are twins minus the whole Jillian Michaels show thing!
Haha, omg! So the stress management class I took last year for public health….one of the most stressful classes! No one ever knew what we were supposed to do, the professor was terrible and the assignments were ridiculous and so much work!
Thank goodness it’s not just me!
I’m not much help when it comes to relieving stress since I’m right there with you! These look so yummy though and I’m with you on turning to cooking and baking to escape a little 🙂
It’s must be a blogger thing!