Hoosier Farm Babe : Healthy No-Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies

Healthy No-Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies

By Hoosier Farm Babe January 24, 2016 Advocare, baking, chocolate, cookies, healthy, recipe

When you need something sweet and indulgent, sometimes you just gotta feed that need.

But that doesn't mean it's needs to be loaded with sugar and carbs necessarily. Now I've got nothing against sugar personally, but in an effort to alter my mild dependency on sweets, it never hurts to find alternatives!

Presently, I am on the Advocare 24-day Challenge and by the way it's in no way a diet - it is part of improving my overall lifestyle and nutritional intake. Good stuff! The fact of the matter is my previous diet was largely made up of carbs, sugar and fat. I always thought healthy food was gross and tasteless, but what I'm finding is quite the opposite. However, that's another blog post for another day. :)

Today, it's all about cookies ... the no-bake kind! These are delicious and guaranteed to satisfy your sweet tooth. This recipe makes about two dozen - plenty to pack one in your lunch bag all week. Now that's what I call #winning!

Enjoy, friends!

Healthy No-Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies

Ingredients

2/3 cup maple syrup (or honey)

1/2 cup Advocare Chocolate Meal Replacement Shake powder

1/2 cup skim milk

1/2 cup coconut oil

3/4 peanut butter

1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon sea salt

4 cups rolled oats

Directions

1. Add syrup and Advocare Chocolate Meal Replacement Shake powder to a medium sauce pan

2. Heat pan on medium low heat (do not boil), stir with a whisk until syrup and powder mix

3. Add coconut oil and milk

4. Stir with a whisk until coconut oil melts and combines (less than a minute)

5. Remove from heat

6. Stir in peanut butter, sea salt, vanilla extract and oats

7. Drop by large spoonful onto baking sheet covered in wax paper

8. Allow to harden for an hour or until set in the fridge

9. Store in the fridge or freezer (for fudge-like texture)

10. Enjoy!

Advocare, baking, chocolate, cookies, healthy, recipe

About the Author

Miss Meggie grew up loving classic country music, big trucks, pretty cows and wild horses. She is a proud 6th generation farmer raising two cowgirls with her farmer hubby on their hog and grain farm in the heart of the Midwest.More...