The weirdest thing ever happened to me on Sunday night!
My last three posts had no comments, my most recent Weekly Obsessions was gone entirely, and there was no text on my second to last post.
I was totally upset and confused, but nevertheless, queued up today’s post with a little call for help note at the bottom.
When I woke up, I was even more surprised to find that everything had been restored to normal… except this post had no text and had been posted but immediately returned to draft status.
Totally bizarre.
If you’ve encountered this problem with WordPress, let me know! I did update a couple plugins, but I don’t think that was the issue, as all the mess started almost a day after I updated.
So now that I’ve wasted the entire post complaining about all the other posts, let me tell you about these cookies.
They’re healthy enough to enjoy for breakfast or a snack, but delicious enough for a satisfying dessert. Made from rolled oats, they are entirely vegan and gluten-free, and they come together in 25 minutes or less!
The brown sugar and maple syrup serve as a rich, sweet base for the crunchy walnuts and the tart dried cranberries.
I loved these with a glass of almond milk, but they’re delicious on their own, or would be great topped with a nut butter or a white chocolate drizzle, for non-vegans!
Enjoy xx
- 4½ cups gluten free rolled oats, divided
- 1 cup vegan butter (= 2 sticks)
- 1 cup dark brown sugar
- ¼ cup maple syrup or agave
- 2 tbsp egg replacer + 4 tbsp water (= 2 eggs)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp cornstarch
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ⅔ cup walnut pieces
- ¾ cup dried cranberries
- Preheat oven to 350 F.
- In a food processor, process 1½ cups of the oats into a fine meal. Set aside.
- In a deep mixing bowl, beat together vegan butter, brown sugar, and maple syrup with an electric beater until creamy. Add egg replacer + water and vanilla and beat again until mixed.
- Add cornstarch, ground oats, cinnamon, salt, and baking powder and mix with the electric beater on low until just combined.
- Using a wooden spoon, stir in remaining 3 cups rolled oats, walnut pieces, and dried cranberries.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and bake in preheated oven for 15-18 minutes, or until golden.
- Cool on a wire rack before serving!
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Don’t you just hate it when you can’t figure out what went wrong?! These cookies on the other hand are all kinds of right! They look delicious! 🙂
Right?! Thanks 🙂
hey girl, sorry to hear about those issues with WordPress. . I have no idea. . I hate it when things like that happen. . I’m sure you googled stuff to see if there were existing articles? anyway, LOVE these cookies! I love seeing the dried cranberries here!
Definitely googled and nothing really came up… Thanks though! 🙂
With every picture I kept saying Yum. Yum. Yum. And then you offer the idea of a drizzle of nut butter – forget about it! Hope your WordPress troubles are over and done with! That is no fun… 🙂
Haha thanks, Annie!
Bah! Nothing annoys me more than than technical glitches with WordPress/hosting company. It sounds to me that your site got “rolled back” to a previous save status. That’s not a technical term by any means, but I had something similar happen to me once. Basically the hosting company was doing some update and so anything I did on the site after a certain time got lost. It was a short window of time, but I happened to be doing work in that short window! I say let’s eat some of these delicious cookies and fuhgedaboutit! 🙂
Ooh that sounds about right! Thanks, David 🙂
I remember when I first started blogging and somehow a few posts would disappear and I had no backup! Yikes. Glad things worked out. As for cookies, oatmeal cookies always win. Love the texture and love it when there are nuts involved. So good!
Thanks, Monica!
I love dried cranberries in cookies. So unique and delicious!
They’re awesome 🙂 Thanks!
Don’t you hate tech issues? Ugh I do! But these cookies? Girl these cookies are magical!
Thanks, Jocelyn!
Yikes, wordpress issues are the worst. I’m glad it fixed itself. Hopefully it’s not the plugins. I’m glad you could share these with us…all the coconut in it makes me happy!!
Thanks 🙂
Random blog problems always freak me out! Glad things are working fine now. These sound delicious, and I would definitely go for the added drizzle of white chocolate on top 😉
Thanks 🙂
Tech issues blow my mind. I updated a plug in last year and it blew up my site. I hope your troubles are behind you, but you can probably check with your host to see if they know. Anyway, moving on to something way more fun – these cookies! I would love these with some white chocolate drizzle thank you very much!
Right?! Thanks, Rachelle!
Ohhh girl, I could go on and on about the issues I’ve had with WordPress and my host, ha! It’s definitely irritating when these things happen – and the situation makes you feel so grateful for those times the site is running well. Glad it all seemed to work out for ya, and I’m psyched you’re sharing these cookies, because they look maaaahvelous!! I always have a stock of walnuts and cranberries in my pantry, so I’m ready to make these ASAP!
Ugh haha.. thanks 🙂
Oh god I hate these technical issue, sorry dear I have no idea! The cookies look lovely!
Thanks 🙂
I wish I could explain WordPress to you, but I cannot. I just feel your pain. It’s so upsetting when things malfunction and you have no idea why, and no control at all.
But on the bright side, these cookies are mad awesome. I love that we both posted GF oatmeal cookies this week!
We are twinning 🙂
That’s so bizarre, Medha! I had all my comments disappear on my entire blog after installing a plugin once and had to hire someone to fix it. Crazy! These cookies look just delicious — I love cranberries in oatmeal cookies!
Oh no! Glad mine fixed itself. Thanks 🙂
Agh I wish I could help you! I am the worst with tech stuff!
Glad everything is working now though!
These cookies look delicious!
Thanks 🙂
Ugh technical issues! I hateeee them. It’s so frustrating trying to figure out what happened!!
But these cookies! They look completely scrumptious!!
Thank you 🙂
These cookies look delicious! I love the cranberry walnut combo!
Thanks, Gayle!
I think that these cookies would help soften the blow of any internet / blog issues. I’ve had some with squarespace for sure!
Ugh they’re the worse!
Yikes, sorry to hear about the WordPress issues. Glad it fixed itself though. Hopefully these cookies help make things better! Oatmeal cookies are my favorite and I love the cranberry walnut combo!
Thank you 🙂
I’m sure you get this a lot but from looking at your blog I now have that Beatles song song stuck in my head the whole time I was reading this post! These cookies look scrumptious!
Haha thanks!
WP is so wonky lately!! It’s always a surprise what will await me when I go to my site or log in. These cookies look really good!
Right?
I love oat cookies and never thought of adding cranberry and wlanuts ones before. They sound beautiful. Will definitely give them a try.
Have a great weekend M!
Thanks!
That is so strange! I’ve never had that happen but I’m glad it’s all fixed now. And these cookies look to-die-for! I’ll take 10 batches please!!
Thanks 🙂
Oh the joys of technology! Great when it works, frustrating when something goes array! I’ve had little things happen, like images not showing up in a specific post.. and other little quirks. And it usually occurs after a plug-in update or install!! I’m so happy it’s work itself out though. Trying to figure things out can be such a time suck! These cookies are fabulous, Medha! Packed with so much goodness, I could eat these for breakfast! Delicious!
Thanks so much, Traci 🙂
Lovely blog Medha 🙂 do check out mine as well.. I am amateur here.! your pics are awesome.
Thanks!
Strangely , I cam about this site on a lark as I was googling wordpress issues :-).. Omg glad yours is fixed, mine on the other hand seems to be still eating up comments and pins. 🙂 The cookies look absolutely fabulous and am glad I stumbled upon your site …
So sorry to hear about your troubles and thanks 🙂
Any idea how many calories they are?
No, sorry, I don’t do calorie counts!
These are awesome cookies. My husband doesn’t usually like desserts labeled as “healthy”, and he loves these. They stay together better when cooked a little longer. Great recipe, thanks for sharing.
So glad you loved them!
Do you have a calorie- protein count for these cookies ?
If you are someone thats not TOTALLY vegan could you sub for regular butter and use actual eggs?
I’m sure that would work fine! Let me know how it goes 🙂