Anzac Oatmeal Cookies
I’ve had so many requests to design Healthy Anzac Cookies for this holiday season – So today I’ve spent a day in my kitchen designing the perfect healthy Anzac cookie recipe ! Based on traditional rolled oats combined with coconut, almond and heart healthy / anti-inflammatory macadamia nut oil, it’s hard to stop at one.
1 1/2 cups (175 g / 6 oz) rolled oats
1/2 cup (40 g / 1 1/2 oz) desiccated coconut
1/2 cup (60 g / 2 1/4 oz) flaked or chopped almonds
2 1/2 tablespoons macadamia nut oil or olive oil
2 tablespoons honey
1 teaspoon vanilla extract or 1/2 teaspoon vanilla bean paste
1 tablespoon water
Combine oats, coconut and almonds into a food processor.
Add the oil, honey and vanilla.
Turn on the food processor and mix well for about 30 seconds or until combined.
Add the water and process again. The addition of water will help the cookie mixture stick together.
Form into 20 small cookies and place onto a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
Flatten down with enough room around each cookie.
Bake for 20 -30 minutes in a low 150 C (300 F) oven. or until golden brown.
Cool completely before eating and enjoy.
Makes 20 delicious Anzac cookies
Store in an airtight container for 5 days.
Nutrition per serve:
Protein: 1.7 g
Total fat: 5.7 g
Saturated: 1.7 g
Carbs: 8.1 g
Calories: 89
Kilojoules: 375
FOR GLUTEN FREE / PALEO ANZACS CLICK HERE
Hi Teresa,
I love getting your receipes through and adding them to my healthy cooking repertiore.
I have an intolerance to almonds and you use a lot of almond meal in your receipes.
Is there an alternative that you recommend to almond meal?
Thanks in advance!
Karly.
Hi Karly
in place of the almonds in the Anzac cookie recipe using the rolled oats version, substitute almond meal for wholemeal spelt flour. You will need to increase liquid content if you do this…add extra 1/4 cup oil and your cookies will be lovely ! This is exactly what we do in my healthy chef cafe ! TX
HI T, I am loving the fact that you are so Paleo friendly!!! I do miss my odd sweet treat since going Paleo so I appreciate getting healthy suggestions from a trusted friend. Keep them coming. Thank you. Linzi
Hi Lovely
I always think of you when I’m designing a recipe !
Have a Happy Easter xxx
Thanks for doing this Teresa!
I am going to get started on them now!
Nathan
Wonderful Thanks, My son is wheat intolerant and was asking for ANZACs today and I was going to try to improvise – but as usual you have come to the rescue.
I made your choc chip cookies the other day and they were a huge hit at a school play date – all the kids LOVED them!!
Love your recipes
Jo
Just thought I would add that I baked these today.
I only had an LSA mix so I substituted this instead of Almond meal.
They tasted Great! Macadamia oil went really well with the honey as well.
Thanks again Teresa.
LOVE the gluten free recipe, made them and my 14 year old just couldn’t get enough. Must say the rest of the family enjoyed them as well. Thanks for posting them.
What a brilliant website! I tell all of my friends and patients about it.
Paleo Anzac biscuits!!! I appreciate that you take the time to come up with marvelous inventions like this Teresa.
Hi Teresa
I just made these cookies as my cousin made them for Easter and they were Devine. Mine look completely different was wndering if it’s because I ground whole raw almonds versus bought almond meal being lLovely and white my almond meal was patchy in colour?? Do u blanch the almonds first?
Hey Gabrielle, glad you loved the cookies. Nice to use blanched almond flour for the cookies, however they are also nice with a little texture like yours. I wouldn’t worry about blanching almonds..xx
Thank you so much for this recipe Teresa and all of your others
I’ve been looking for a healthy alternative to Anzac cookies for a while that didn’t contain butter. I’ve made these three times already and my family can’t get enough of them.
Keep up the fabulous work
xx
Hi Teresa,
How long will these cookies keep for?
Thanks
2 weeks in an airtight container. TX
Decided to give this recipe a try today, my husband loves Anzacs! I used the rolled oats version and they turned out beautifully. The edges were crisp with a soft center. I did have to add 1/4 cup of water to bring the crumbly mix together, plus a heaped tablespoon of applesauce (pureed apple) added more moisture without making the biscuits too soft.
Can’t wait for the kids to try them in their lunch boxes, if the husband leaves them any!!
Hi Teresa, I’m new to your site, what alternative can I use to cane sugar, so how can I lesson the ammount? I’ve made your blueberry muffins and they were a good sweetness, so I’m not looking ore something overly sweet.
Hi Lisa, Reducing sugar intake and reducing the foods you eat that will turn into sugar is one of the best ways to improve your total health.
x
When your body receives sugar from your diet its response is to produce a hormone called insulin. It’s important to remember that the role of insulin is not only to lower blood sugar, its purpose is to promote the storage of energy, which it does by turning blood sugar into fat! Manufacturers also add sugar to prepared foods such as bread products, biscuits, cakes, yoghurt, salad dressings, sauces all to make the food taste better. when baking, use a less refined sugar like a rapadura, dried fruit, fresh fruit puree is great as well as organic raw sugar, coconut sugar, honey, pure maple syrup, apple juice concentrate etc and you can normally reduce the sugar in a recipe by 1/4 – 1/2 the amount. If you want 100 % sugar free and low GI using Stevia and Xylitol are good choices.
I have just baked the oat anzac’s with my 3 year old daughter and they are so yummy! thanks for a great recipe I have been dairy free for years now and this beats any recipe I have tried in the past.
Love your recipes!
Hi,
Just wondering if you know what the calories are in each of these biscuits?
Delicious little cookies.On a quest to elimanate as many processed foods from my house as I can, as well as looking for healthy alternatives for the family. This is my first recipe from Teresa’s site , next I am moving onto the blueberry muffins.
Hi Teresa,
Just made these and they are delicious! Just wondering though if it would affect the texture or consistency too much if I reduced the amount of sugar a bit?
Cheers
Melissa
I made a chocolate variation of these which included; left over almond meal (from making almond milk), in vitamix with 1/2 cup cacao powder and about 6 pitted dates & bit of almond milk to get it mixed together. Put this in a bowl, adding 2 cups of oats & 1 cup of coconut. In a pan I melted 1/2 cup of coconut oil, with 2 tbls honey (could use agave instead) and 1/2 teaspoon of bicarb soda. Put this into the bowl, combine and roll into cookies which I baked for about 15-20 minutes. OMG so YUM!
Awesome recipe! My fiance is a preschool teacher and was looking for a recipe for Anzac biscuits that’s dairy and egg free (due to allergies in the kids). Thanks!
Loved this recipe. I’m an ameture cook but this is so simple. The hardest part was working out how to make the cookies ie: roll them in a ball, squash them down or not.
These were so yummy, I couldn’t stop crunching them. Lucky I worked hard in body attack.
I made these for Anzac day last week and they were absolutely delicious!! So much so my partner almost finished the entire batch in one day (he couldn’t even tell they were healthy!). I love baking and it’s wonderful that you have created such healthy delicious alternatives to enjoy without the guilt! Thanks Teresa!
These are pretty damn fine Anzacs! My first batch, made last weekend, turned out crisp and delicious. Next time I might experiment with the addition of a little dried fruit, or maybe some ginger. Thanks so much!