Oatmeal raisins cookies without added sugar, less butter, low carb and low calories??
Is it possible? Yes!
BUT are they good?? YES again!
These little oatmeal bites are delicious! My kids don't even like to eat raisins at all but ate these babies up!
Because they are made with less butter and subbing in some coconut oil, the texture is not chewy, more crisp on the outside and soft on the inside. If you have an allergy to coconut oil then just replace the amount used, with butter. Obviously the nutrition info will not be same but do what works for you and your family.
If you don't have powdered stevia or prefer not to use it, simply sub in ½ cup of honey or other sweetener of choice.
Warning alert!: These are so good you may need to hide them away if you can't stop after one or two.
Chances are if you made them for your family they won't be lasting long in the house anyway, especially when your kids have friends over. 🙂
Always a nice treat after school or work!
adapted from Family Fun Magazine March 2012
Healthy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies: No Sugar Added
Ingredients
- ½ cup raisins
- 2 cups rolled or quick oats
- ½ cup white whole wheat flour
- 2 teaspoons powdered stevia
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ cup butter melted
- ¼ cup coconut oil melted
- optional: ¼ cup chocolate chips grain sweetened or sugar free
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Place the raisins in a small bowl and cover them with water.
- Let soak for about 15 minutes.
- Reserve 2 tablespoons of the water and drain the rest.
- In a large bowl stir together rolled oats, flour, stevia, salt, baking powder, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
- In a small bowl whisk your egg with vanilla, melted butter, coconut oil and 2 tablespoons of raisin water.
- Blend your wet ingredients into your dry ingredients.
- Add raisins and chocolate chips if desired.
- With a small cookie scoop or tablespoon make 24 oatmeal balls.
- Place onto a nonstick cookie sheet or use parchment paper. Flatten slightly. Bake until they are golden brown, about 15- 18 minutes.
- Let cool for about 5 minutes then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Nutrition
Nutrition Info
{with chocolate chips}
Servings: 24* Calories per cookie: 100* Fat: 6g* Cholesterol: 14mg* Sodium: 81mg* Carbs: 11g* Fiber: 1g* Sugars: 3g* Protein: 2g*
Other cookie recipes you might like:
- Double Chocolate Cherry Refined Sugar Free Cookies
- Chocolate Chip Refined Sugar Free Cookies
- No Bake Chocolate Coconut Balls: Flour, Sugar, Egg, Dairy, Nut & Gluten Free
About Brenda
Brenda Bennett is a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, certified Sugar Detox Coach, certified Keto Coach and certified Life Coach. She has been Sugar Free & Refined carb free for 17 years and has written 2 cookbooks, Sugar-Free Mom, and Naturally Keto and her 3rd book The 30-Day Sugar Elimination Diet, is a four part program to help you detox from sugar, eliminate cravings, balance blood sugar and lose weight all while eating a delicious, nutrient dense whole foods. Meal plan offers two tracks to follow, low carb or keto. She is the founder of the Sugar Free Fresh Start course and Sugar Free Tribe weight loss membership. Learn more.
Andrea
I had a problem with this recipe.
The instructions clearly state to "Let cool for about 5 minutes" before transferring them to a wire rack. In the time it took me to find my wire rack and get it set up, the cookies disappeared! Going to try this recipe again. Hopefully my cookie jar will get some this time!
Katrina
Stevia is a wonderful substitute. It is important to buy a high quality in white powdered form to avoid a bitter aftertaste. I am not affiliated with this site and buy mine from PureBulkdotcom. I find 90% stevia extract has no aftertaste; a higher extract is available. Also, thanks for letting folks know Splenda is not a good substitute. It sounds like this recipe would be a bit too dry for my liking. I appreciate having your recipe as a reference. Thanks very much for offering sugar-free, healthy recipes. Best!
Tammy
Hi Brenda,
I love your recipes! I'm curious as to why do you melt the butter for this recipe, vs creaming the sugar and butter together as you do for most cookie recipes? Thank you!
Carrie
I made these gluten free. The texture was great, after adding an extra egg. But I won't use stevia, or at least this much stevia again. They tasted strange. I know it was not my flour,and I am used to stevia instead of sugar now. I have been SF for two months, and GF for a few years. Not sure why,but they were just weird.
Brenda
Can you tell me the type of stevia you used? Pure extract, powdered like packets, liquid or a baking blend?
Laura
these cookies are in the oven as i type... and i cannot stop eating the dough. 4th day sugar-free after realizing i eat too much sugar. i really want to try eating as little sugar as possible. thank you so much for sharing this recipe and your website (which i just found today)! so helpful and encouraging!
Stacy
You list rolled oats with the ingredients, but don't mention them in the directions! I'm sure you mix them in the beginning with the dry ingredients, right?
Brenda
Thanks for catching that!! Yes in with the dry! THANK YOU!
Chuck
Thanks for the recipe SFM. It sounds good. I am going to give it a try! I also have given up sugar (white death) and have been using pure stevia extract. I have been drinking die rite soda because it is sweetened with splenda. I only drink one glass a day. I also pretty much gave up bread. I used to have a slice of toast with an egg for breakfast, but now I mix a poached egg in 1/4 C of quinoa which is better for you.
Chuck
Stacy
Splenda is an artificial sweetener and actually not as good for you as everyone thinks it is, due to the refinement process it goes through. Any nutrients you get in raw sugar and natural sweeteners is lost. A better alternative might be sugar free fruit juice mixed with sparkling mineral water.
Ania Fulk
Dear Brenda, Thank you for having the courage to think "out of the box" and prepare deserts with no sugar or sugar alternatives, which people would normally consider strange-a dessert without sugar? I have a certificate in nutrition but plan to obtain a degree in this field, and hold a degree in Biological sciences. Anyway, I have read extensively about the havock that sugar can play in the body-overuse of it is literally poisoning our cells. The best alternative is abstinence from sugar or moderation. I will try your oatmeal cookies recipe. I do favor natural sugar sources such as molasses and raw unfiltered honey and eat a tablespoon everyday of one or the other. Both are healthy alternatives to cane sugar, again in moderation. The other source of sugar in my diet (I am vegetarian, bordering on vegan for over 8 years now) are berries, apples (including dried apples), dried figs and over 70% dark chocolate. I you are allright with that, I can help with providing information on nutrition on your website, without obligation, just for the sake of sharing healthy knowledge with people! Please let me know what you think of that. Thank you again for being the health buff mom! Best to you. Ania Fulk
Andrea
Hello Brenda! I have just found your site and have really enjoyed several recipes. We are a gluten-free, sugar-free family also, so I was wondering for this recipe if I could substitute gf flour for the white wheat flour? Or oat flour? Just didn't know if it would work. Thanks"
Brenda
Hi Andrea, Welcome! Many of my recipes use White whole wheat flour or whole wheat since my family isn't gluten free but I seem to have a sensitivity to it. I've not converted many recipes with gluten free flour since I try not to eat all the treats I make for the kids. The recipes I eat often usually are gluten free. This is one for my family but I am pretty sure using a gluten free flour would also work here.
Phyllis
Try almond flour
Vickie
I tried these for the first time today and they came out really really great. I used all butter and 1/2 cup honey...could even go less on the honey. The cookies are so nice. The flavor is really perfect and the texture is soft and chewy. Thank you for sharing this recipe! I feel so much better about giving them to my kids as compared with my old recipe.
Brenda
Thanks so much for sharing!
Miriam
Thanks for posting this recipe. I cannot wait to try it tomorrow. The only subs I will be making are oat flour instead of wheat, and no chocolate (not fond of chocolate in oatmeal cookies). Otherwise this is just what I was looking for as breakfast cookies.
Cassie
Oh and I forgot to add one thing. I can't find powdered stevia at our grocery store just granulated so will the measurement of stevia still be the same if I use granulated instead of powdered?
Brenda
I'm not sure as I don't use or have granulated stevia. You might have to google a conversion chart for that.
Cassie
Hi I don't have any whole wheat flour left 🙁 can I use regular white flour?
Brenda
yes of course
Joylynn
Made these today for my mom and myself since we're starting a new healthy diet together. I used 1/2 cup butter and 1/2 cup honey instead of the coconut oil and the stevia (we didn't have that on hand) and these are amazing! They taste so natural and yummy, thanks for the recipe 🙂
Brenda
Yah! Glad you and your mom enjoyed them!
Amanda
I baked these cookies for my hubby last night. I was so excited because he's ready to eat healthy. My cookies I made came out really dry, not sure what I did wrong. Suggestions?
Brenda
They are more crumbly than typical cookies since they are made with less butter so if you want to use 1/2 cup of butter instead of the coconut oil, that might make the texture more to your hubby's liking.
mary
This morning I made them vegan by using applesauce for the butter and 1 TBSP ground flax seed with 3 TBSP water. My two year old grandson loves them. Thank you!
mary
The flax seed replaces the egg.
Brenda
thank you, glad to know how you adapted it!
Irene
The dough was dry added some sour cream You just have to get use to stevia it’s not like sugar
Jessica
I am going to try this variation. I make them usually with GF rolled oats, peabut nutter (peanut butter sub), applesauce, banana and craisins. My son cannot have eggs either so I find that the bananas and applesauce have worked well together to sub for eggs. I am going to try with coconut oil and GF flour...maybe almond meal and see how it turns out...my kids love breakfast cookies and often take them for snacks to school too. Thanks for some more options.
Jessica@AKitchenAddiction
Oatmeal raisin cookies are some of my favorites! I love that you made these no-sugar added!
Charlotte Moore
These look delicious. I love oatmeal raisin.
Thanks!!!
The Better Baker
Thanks so much for sharing. I'm sure my diabetic hubby will thank you too. Oatmeal raisin are one of his favorites!
Jen
IsbStevia the same as Truvia?
Brenda
Well truvia does have stevia in it I believe but unfortunately it also contains other additives as well so it is more processed than buying just stevia.
Candace
These are in the oven now and them combined with the pumpkin breads the entire house smells delicious!! I can't wait to try them 🙂
Debbie Fore
Is that 1/4 cup coconut oil or 1/4 tablespoon? How much coconut oil does it need?
Brenda
cup, thanks!
Rena
These look great. Can i use truvia instead of stevia? If so, any idea how much?
Also can i used all coconut oil? or maybe instead of butter use applesauce?
Brenda
You could use truvia but I'm not sure how much, it is equal to the stevia in powder form.You could use all coconut oil but not sure on texture, maybe very flaky and crumbly. I have used some applesauce in other cookie recipes to replace butter, it can work.
Debbie
Where do you buy the grain sweetened chocolate chips? Thanks for all of your wonderful recipes!
Brenda
Thank you! I've found them at Whole Foods and the brand is Sunspire.
Penny
Oatmeal cookies were the most awful I've ever eaten.....I followed the recipe exactly!!!!
Brenda
Sorry you feel that way. My family and I love them. Thanks.
Katie
I made this recipe today using honey and only butter as adjustments. They were awesome! Are you sure you followed the recipe Penny because you are crazy to not love these!
Brenda
Thanks so much Katie!
Shawnee Atteberry
I followed the recipe but used 1/2 cup honey and all butter. They are kinda bland . Any suggestions
Candis
I buy Almond Flour, when I see it on sale ... a very good Vanilla, fresh nutmeg and fresh cinnamon, ( neither are expensive). The quality of your products can change the taste.
We love ❤️ cooking healthy. Many people like my mother cannot bake or cook without a recipe and she does not know how to add to change something. ?????
Two thumbs up for us.
Brenda
thank you!
Eva
I only liked them once I put the chocolate chips in and a bit more stevia - maybe try them again like that - Without those additions, I did not care too much for them too much either. Now I love them!
Henry
Thank you for this recipe Katie. I can tell that you are a genuinely sweet person. I must say, my wife and I just tried this recipe. I'm very sorry to say that I have to agree with Penny. I think this recipe had an odd taste to me because I'm not used to the taste of Stevia. I'm going to have to stick with the unhealthy oatmeal cookie recipe under the lid of the Quaker Oatmeal box. I'm thankful this recipe works for all of the others that tried it. I know this is much healthier for people that have to watch their sugar intake.
Steff
These cookies are horrible.
Ariel
Could you sub apple sauce for the two oils?