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Pumpkin spice oatmeal morning cookies recipe! These vegan and gluten-free, healthy oatmeal cookies from The Vegan 8 cookbook are the perfect grab and go breakfast.

Disclaimer: I received a copy of the Vegan 8 cookbook for review and was given permission to share these healthy oatmeal cookies with you. Enjoy!

Hey, Rhubarbarians!

Just comin atcha today with the joy of CONVENIENCE! I'm sharing a recipe for healthy, grab and go breakfast cookies! These handy morning cookies are as healthy as eating a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast, but you can eat them in your car, eat them with your coffee, give them to your kids, pack them in your kid's lunchbox, SO MANY THINGS!

These cookies are nice and crispy on the outside while being chewy on the inside, so it feels like you're indulging in a dessert. It's totally awesome.

Have you tried our super chunky pumpkin granola? Or our 5-minute pumpkin spice oatmeal recipe?

The Vegan 8 cookbook: 100 simple, delicious recipes made with 8 ingredients or less

This recipe comes to you from the pages of The Vegan 8, a cookbook written by Brandi Doming. Brandi is the blogger and recipe developer behind The Vegan 8 blog. All of her recipes are vegan (obvs), and are made with 8 ingredients or less. How cool is that?

As a stay at home mother of a busy little toddler and wife of a man who works an hour away from home full time, I NEED this book in my life. I can't really be bothered with complicated recipes these days. So, I was totally drawn to the concept of this book from the get-go.

One thing that I loved about this book is that the intro is nice and short. There's a brief section on the cookbook concept and vegan pantry staples used in the recipes, but the recipes start from the beginning! YES! Because, when I buy a cookbook, I really want a gazillion recipes. 🙂

The recipes are broken down into sections like time-crunch lunches, comforting soups & stews, and crowd-pleasing desserts. Each section had me wanting to make ALL OF THE RECIPES! Some of the stand out recipes that I have to try are:

chocolate cherry granola

pizza quesadillas

bbq chipotle green lentils with potato wedges

Thai rice noodle and bok choy soup

chocolate peanut butter candy bites

Do you want a copy? You can buy the book on Amazon here! It was just released on Oct. 16th. GET IT!

How to make these vegan morning cookies:

First things first: preheat your oven and line a baking sheet with parchment paper for easy clean up. No need to do more dishes than we need to, eh?

Mix together ALL of the ingredients in a bowl. No fancy stuff here, friends! Make yourself some easy "dough."

Roll the mixture into 8-10 balls and place on the baking sheet. These will be sticky, so wet your fingers if you need to and try to keep them held together as much as you can. Press the balls down to a cookie form with a piece of parchment and shape them into a round cookie.

Bake. Let cool. Eat. Enjoy

Notes about these healthy oatmeal cookies:

The original recipe calls for pistachios, but I used pepitas because it's what I had in my pantry. Any nut or seed of your choice would work well!
To make these nut-free, sub the almond butter for sunflower seed butter, if you don't mind a strong sunflower seed taste.
I suggest doubling or even tripling this recipe and making two or three batches in the oven. I found that these were gone in just about a day in our house!
Customize these cookies to your liking! As stated above, sub sunflower seed butter for the almond butter, use dried cherries or chopped prunes rather than cranberries, use pistachios or chopped pecans rather than pepitas. YOU DO YOU!

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