This was the first time we made dehydrated cookies and we loved them! When you cook or bake food, it loses some nutrients, but dehydrating food only minimally affects its nutritional value, which is great!
We’ve discovered many incredible recipes using our dehydrator, but we only try the simple ones. You can find many difficult or gourmet recipes online, but as you know, we usually make easy recipes like these cookies. You just need a food processor (or a blender), a bowl and your hands to make them, well, and the dehydrator, of course.
You can see a before and after photo below, the cookies were not as crunchy as baked cookies, but they tasted amazing and had an incredible texture. You should try them!
PRODUCTS WE USED TO MAKE THIS RECIPE (AFFILIATE LINKS):
Aroma Professional 6 Tray Food Dehydrator
If you don’t have a dehydrator, you can use your oven instead. The cookies you can see in the picture above were baked and so delicious as well. Bake them to 390ºF or 200ºC for about 15 to 20 minutes or until golden brown.
Simple Vegan Dehydrated Cookies
- Prep: 10 mins
- Cook: 6 hours
- Total: 6 hours 10 mins
- 30 1x
- Breakfast, Dessert
- Amerian, Vegan
Servings 30 1x
Dehydrating food only minimally affects its nutritional value, which is great! You’re going to love these simple vegan dehydrated cookies.
Ingredients
- 2 apples
- 4 tbsp flax seeds
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 cup almonds (80 g)
- 1/2 cup dates (100 g)
- 4 cup oats (480 g)
Instructions
- Wash the apples and chop them. You can peel them if you want.
- Place all the ingredients in a food processor excluding the oats and blend for a few seconds. Use a blender if you don’t have a food processor.
- Place the cookie dough in a big mixing bowl, add the rest of the oats and mix with your hands. Add 2 cups of oats and blend again until well combined. Add the rest of the oats (another 2 cups) and mix using a spoon or your hands. If the dough is too wet, add more oats, if it’s too dry, add some water.
- Make the cookies using your hands. We made 1/4 inch cookies (1/2 cm).
- Place the cookies into the dehydrator trays and dehydrate to 45ºC or 113ºF for about 4 hours for one side and another 2 hours for the other side. The time may vary depending on your dehydrator or the ingredients you’re using.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie (1/30 of the recipe)
- Calories: 72
- Sugar: 3.6g
- Sodium: 1mg
- Fat: 1.8g
- Saturated Fat: 0.2g
- Carbohydrates: 12.3g
- Fiber: 2.2g
- Protein: 2g
DID YOU MAKE THIS RECIPE?
Please leave a comment below or tag a picture #simpleveganblog. We’d love to see what you cook!
My oats are 40g to the half cup, which would mean 4 cups would be 320g, not the 480g called for in the recipe. Turns out, it makes a difference. LOL
Hi there! I’m not sure if you’re using the same cups I’m using, but if I would use half a cup anyways. I think it should work as you’re going to add less of the other ingredients, just in case your cup is smaller than mine 🙂
Hi these look really good. I was wondering what kind of oats ? Rolled or quick. ? Thank you
Hi Debbie! I used quick oats, but any type will do 🙂
Did not make these cookies yet. I have to be careful of seeds due to lower GI resection. Are the seeds necessary? or for flavor?… I do have flax seed flour, does that count? Thank you.
Hi Susan! The flax seeds are the binder, but I think flax seed flour could work 🙂
How long will these last? I am going on a camping trip for 10 day and would like to make these, but do you think they will last that long without being refrigerated?
Hi Alyssa! I think so, but I’m not 100% sure, sorry!
Could you use quinoa flakes instead of oats? Have Coeliac so no oats allowed.
Hi Carol! I haven’t tried it myself, but I think it should work 🙂 You could also use gluten-free oats if you can find them.
These ingredients are so healthy and I become used to having oat cookies but I have not got a dehydrator.
I notice that some recipes say out them,on lowest oven setting one is 150 and cook.
What domain think? Would I get away with it?
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Hi! I think it could work 🙂
These cookies look delicious and I have a dehydrator that I don’t use enough. I will be making these soon.
Hi Celeste! Thank you so much 🙂 Hope you like them!
These cookies are quite delicious. The directions are a little confusing/incomplete so this is what I did. I put 2 cups of the oatmeal into the food processor with the rest of the ingredients and blended. Next I moved the contents to a mixing bowl and added the other 2 cups of oatmeal and mixed that in. I also grated my apples before adding the rest of the ingredients to the food processor but I’m not sure that was necessary. At the last minute I decided to add some unsweetened coconut. I “baked” them overnight in my dehydrator without flipping them and it seems to have worked out perfectly. They go great with a cup of coffee in the morning without any guilt.
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Hi Nancy! I’m so sorry, but I forget one sentence. You need to add the other 2 cups of oats. Thanks for your comment! I’m so glad you liked the cookies 🙂 Have a nice day!