Chewy Oatmeal Zucchini Cookies.
Can we still be friends if I put vegetables in your cookies?!
Eddie says no.
When I asked if he wanted a zucchini cookie, he looked at me like I had five heads.
I kind of wish I had five heads because that would be five mouths and more room for COOKIES.
So I did it. I put vegetables in a cookie. That makes these a health food and a perfectly acceptable breakfast food. Along with a balanced snack and maybe even a side dish at dinner.
Too far?
The thing is that I wanted my zucchini cookies to be CHEWY. Not cakey. I achieved some good chew here (thanks to the yolk only, some brown sugar and lots of oats) and cannot even express how delicious these babies were. So melty and chocolatey too. They tasted like chocolate chip zucchini bread but in a chewy cookie!
Those five mouths would have really been a help .
What is it about zucchini in baked goods? Everyone goes nuts for it, even I’m kind of crazy about it at the moment, and YES it lends a lovely texture to the bread or cake, but it’s really the spices that makes you THINK of zucchini bread. Like if zucchini bread was a candle, it would be all cinnamon-y and cakey. Right?
If zucchini bread was a perfume, you would smell like spice cake. I definitely don’t mind smelling like spice cake.
As we near the end up summer and you have thirty pounds of zucchini to use up from your garden, add these to the list. I love the way these cookies take you into fall because of said spice. They are somewhat hearty and just warm. And full of health! SO much green, you know.
Chewy Oatmeal Zucchini Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup old-fashioned rolled oats
- ¾ cup quick-cooking instant oats
- ¾ cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
- ½ cup loosely packed brown sugar
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- 1 large egg yolk
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1 teaspon vanilla extract
- 1 cup freshly grated zucchini squash
- ¾ cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a bowl, whisk together the oats, flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the melted butter and sugar. Whisk in the egg yolk, milk and vanilla extract. Stir the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients – it will take a few minutes to fully incorporate everything, but you don’t want the batter to be super wet. If at any time the mixture seems way too dry, add more milk 1 tablespoon at a time.
- Stir in the zucchini and chocolate chips. At this point, I like to stick the batter in the fridge for 30 minutes or so.
- Scoop the dough onto a cookie sheet about 2 inches apart. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes, or until golden on the tops and around the edges. Let cool slightly before lifting from the pan and setting them on a wire rack. Cool completely before serving.
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Cookie kisses for you.
50 Comments on “Chewy Oatmeal Zucchini Cookies.”
Of course we can still be friends! I trust vegetable-filled cookies from you :D
yessss!
Ha, no need to worry about OUR friendship! In fact, THANK YOU for putting zucchini in my cookies, I love it!!! These sound perfect!
xoxo
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Love it! You take a balanced meal to “Whole” new level! Pinned!
haha thanks tonya!
What chocolate chips did you use? Because they look different and amazing.
ghirardelli!
I love the way you think. 5 heads would be awesome…especially if 5 stomachs were part of the deal too.
omg yes obviously.
I totally wouldn’t mind smelling like a spice cake ;) happy weekend!
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I’m all for veggies in everything! Especially zucchini! Like…zucchini pancakes are my favorite thing :P
i need some zucchini pancakes!
These look amazing, need these in my life nowwww!
thanks alexe!
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These look great! Do you squeeze the zucchini dry first?
i didn’t! but you definitely can and they might be even chewier!
Do I need 2 different kinds of oats? I only have the old-fashioned kind……
you don’t absolutely NEED them, but the two different kinds (using the instant) help with the chewy factor!
I saw these and wanted to wait to make them to comment. I did so. THEY ARE INCREDIBLE! I literally could not stop eating them, thank you thank you THANK YOU for this amazing recipe, it’s definitely going to be made again – the nutmeg is such a nice touch in the cookies!
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Made these this morning and they are delicious! Glad I snagged the ghiradelli chocolate chips at the store! I used only old fashioned oats, and didn’t have enough of those so had to do a 1/2 batch. Super depressing bc I want to eat them all. Just hoping my toddler eats them!!!
Could I use coconut oil instead of butter? THANKS!
I made them with raisons instead of chocolate chips–very yummy the squash added an apple flavor.
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These are amazing!! I made them for some very skeptical roommates and they absolutely died over them. I’ve made them three times this week… :)
Fantastic cookies made the second time a little different just added pecans that were sightly roasted and a little pumpkin spice instead of just nutmeg next time going to add dried apricots and cranberries . Thanks for sharing this recipe absolutely delicious.?.
Oh yes! With cookies like these we can be the very best friends.
These look fab! Planning on making them this afternoon with my 2 year old son… my never ending attempt to get some greens in him! I was going to sub the instant oats for oat bran as i don’t have any instant oats – hope that works ok! And i was also going to chuck in some chai seeds… all about the sneaky extras! :-)
oh. baby.
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Hello! I follow you on insta and love all your recipes. My daughter has an egg allergy, is there a substitute you suggest? Thanks!
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Hi Jessica! Just made these for the THIRD time! My family loves them and I have a ton of zucchini in my garden.
Love your recipes!
Love reading your blog too as I’m from the ‘burgh, living in NJ now.
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Thank you for this recipe. I’m going to tweak it to make GF. I just made a GF chocolate zucchini bread for a neighbor today. I’m going to make this tomorrow since we have so many awesome zucchini in the garden! Xo
Hi there, these look yummy!
My question is, can I freeze these,,? I am baking cookies for an up coming wedding. Thanks!
These are my new favorite cookies. SO YUMMY! And addictive!
Quick question – could I freeze this dough to use for later. Say a month later?