The easiest healthiest vegan Oreos with a 3 ingredient crunchy chocolate cookie and lots of filling options. You won’t believe how simple and tasty they are!
Did you ever watch the Magic School Bus? My fellow nerdy 90s kids where are ya? Do you remember the haunted house episode about sound? Well before I lose most of you, the moral of the story is less is more. You have to take things away. You have to start with simple and only add what is absolutely necessary. That is the approach I took with these cookies. The result: easy peasy perfect gluten-free Vegan Oreos made with only 5 ingredients!
My first concern when I got this recipe request was crispy cookie?….how to make a crispy crumbly oil-free cookie? We can’t have soft chewy vegan oreos, then they’d just be whoopee pies pretending.
Based on these oatmeal cookies, I knew maple syrup had to be involved. And of course cacao powder is an integral ingredient too because chocolate. So from there, using my Magic School Bus knowledge, I added as few other ingredients as possible. And all they ended up needing was brown rice flour. Yep, just 3 ingredients and you have crunchy chocolate cookies–the ‘bread’ to our sweet sandwich.
Filling your Vegan Oreos
There’s no better creamy white filling then coconut cream. However, since I know many of you are high carb vegans, I wanted to include some lower fat options for the filling as well…
–Powdered peanut butter. It sounds like a higher fat option, but with powdered peanut butter it’s actually a lower fat way to go!
–Chocolate peanut butter. Utilize the thickening action of powdered peanut butter to make a chocolate filling. Powdered peanut butter + cacao powder + water.
–Banana. If you size your cookies just right, then one banana coin will sandwich in between two cookies perfectly. It’s almost the right color too!
–Nicecream. Blend up some frozen bananas, dollop on a cookie, sandwich, freeze, you have an ice cream sandwich! And of course you could make the nicecream any flavor you want–strawberry, chocolate, cinnamon, gingerbread, chocolate chip, lemon, endless ice cream-abilities!
–Date caramel. My favorite sweet filling or frosting: dates + water.
I love these little sandwich cookies. Fresh from the oven: love them. Cold from the fridge: love them. With cream: love them. Without cream: love them. Three days old and starting to get a little soft: still love them. I hope you love them too!
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Easy Vegan Oreos
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 9 minutes
- Total Time: 29 minutes
- Yield: 8 cookies 1x
Ingredients
Cookie
- 1/4 cup + 1 tbsp maple syrup
- 1/2 cup cacao powder
- 1/4 cup + 2 tbsps brown rice flour
Filling
- 1 can of full fat coconut milk chilled overnight
- 2 tbsps powdered sugar (store-bought or homemade in the blender)
Lower fat filling options
- Powdered peanut butter
- OR powdered peanut butter + cacao powder
- OR 1 banana (sliced)
Instructions
- Cookie: Preheat the oven to 350F.
- Combine all the ingredients. Mix to form a thick cookie dough.
- Roll into 16 balls. Arrange on a pan (or two pans) lined with parchment paper. Cover with a piece of wax paper and flatten with the bottom of a cup or jar to about 1/2 inch thickness
- Bake for 8-10 minutes at 350F.
- Let them cool, they will become crispy as they cool.
- Filling: Scoop out the cream from the can of coconut milk leaving behind the liquid. Add the powdered sugar and whisk till smooth and creamy.
- Spoon onto your cookie, smush, and enjoy! Keep any leftovers int the fridge for up to 3 days.
Nowwwww I want to watch Magic School Bus and snack on these beauties haha! Would make for a perfect Friday night in my opinion. Loooove how simple these are! I just got brown rice flour too, so these are definitely going to happen soon and I cannot wait!
Sounds like a party to me haha! No but really, I totally be down for that 😀
???. Magic school bus ❤. Used to watch that with my boys when they were little ✌?
HELP. I AM A VEGAN BUT I LOVE MEAT. WHAT TO DO???!!!
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I used to love meat, but don’t anymore. In my case, I just got a bit disgusted by the thought of it. Try seasoning meat alternatives with the same spices as you used to season your meat, because plain meat isn’t what you like. Also don’t trap yourself in this mindset. Most vegans used to love meat and cheese. We eat them for so long we become accustomed. Also make sure you reward yourself for eating consciously and sacrificing something you like for the greater good of everything. Ask yourself if you love meat or animals more, maybe. Just make sure you always remember your reasons for going vegan. Try to associate living animals with meat in your mind. That way there will never be disconnect, and you won’t fall under a sick illusion.
There is a documentary on YouTube called “Dominion”. Watch that, and you will never want meat again. 😭 Soy curls, jackfruit, tofu, eggplant, and tempeh are all great replacement!
Watching documentaries about animal abuse and conscious eating isn’t the only way – maybe you are having certain cravings because you need comprehensive nutritional testing that will personally profile your nutritional levels. My integrative/functional MD ordered one (which is covered by my insurance since a Medical Doctor ordered it – you will pay for most testing ordered by non-MD’s out of pocket even if it is covered) and I’m super excited because I’ve been having major problems gaining muscle! I suspect low amino acids are imbalanced among other things. After receipt of test results, I’ll be able to fill all the nutrition gaps via supplements and/or diet!
WHOA!!!! I came to your blog to pin those cinnamon rolls, but then saw these!!!! Holy YUM! I can’t believe that’s all the ingredients for the cookie part…I NEED to try these asap! Obviously Willow watched the video with me and her eyes got so big. When you pulled the cookie sandwich apart I could not believe how much they looked like the real thing!!! Mmmmm!!! Looks amazing! xo
I kinda can’t believe it either! I really thought it’d be a complete fail, I made like a 4 cookie batch to start while I was testing it and was totally shocked that they actually baked into cookies not just weird blobs. Ahh yes Willow my fellow fanatic, she would love these I think! I never even ate my oreos by separating them, but ya know…tradition 😀
Oh wow I can’t wait to try these! This is probably the first recipe I have come across for homemade oreos that are actually baked and without oil? Wow, just wow! Now to get some brown rice flour…
I wasn’t sure the oil free part was going to be possible and still have that Oreo texture, but thank goodness for maple syrup! I hope you try them 🙂
Is there any chance I can sub the brown rice flour for almond or oat flour?
Oat flour will make for a much chewier cookie so I don’t recommend it. Almond flour may work, but you will need probably double the amount. Good luck!
Can I use coconut flour????? How would I substitute it
Not for this one, it’s too crumbly they will just fall apart😕
What about gluten free flour ?
You could try it, but I think it will still make them more chewy and less crisp!
Wow! I can hardly wait it’s morning here and I can go to by brown rice flour. I don’t think it’s possible to have any left overs of these though.
Nope, no way! In fact I might suggest doubling the batch there weren’t enough. I can’t wait for you to try them 🙂
These are just little chocolatey pillowy cakes with fluffy white cream between <3 So funny since I knew these were coming and another blogger friend posted gf/vegan oreos and I was like wow! Double recipe love <3
You know what I always hated about them though was that they cracked and crumbled so you could not just bite in.. You HAD to remove one cookie to eat it effectively which I guess was the point!
OOO do you remember those 200 cal packs of :oreo thins" those were so gross! It was like a stale chocolate disc of sadness speckled with a few white dots of who knows what!
But I did always weirdly like the mini oreos (not the 100 cal ones) but the small bite sized ones that were always all destroyed in the package and seemed to be given out at school, parties, or Halloween. For some reason I thought they tasted best!
Okay…sorry for this novel of a comment 😉 xoxoxo
Who else posted oreos, I’d love to check them out? I never took my oreos apart actually, always a biter! The secret to the clean crumbly cookie bite is to suck in a little bit as you bite so you can not drop any crumbs! Try it next time, it works. And I LOVED the oreo thins!!! Those were my favorite, I actually think I liked them better than actual oreos. I have no clue what the white stuff was either, probably just sugar, but those were the bomb haha! Not sad to me! Mini oreos were awesome too, more cream I think plus just the bite size means no mess 🙂
You are amazing! Your ability to create healthy yet simple recipes is so inspiring! I love these. Especially the peanut butter option 🙂
Thank you Aimee! The PB was great, I kinda want to make a mint version now too 🙂
OMG!!!!! These remind me of OREA CAKESTERS!!!! Do you remember those short lived oreo treats in the early 00s?! But I’m guessing these are ten times better. In fact I know they are cause you made them! I am so excited. THREE INGREDIENTS!!!! How did you do it? You continue to impress me more and more every time you post a new recipe. Also, Magic School Bus?! LOVE.
YESSSSS!!! I remember cakesters! Those were the bomb, I remember when they were like the coolest thing to have in you lunch box 😀 These do look like them! They aren’t that soft, much more crunchy, but totally lookalikes! Wow you just brought back so many memories in my head ha! Magic school bus was the bomb, I still have it on DVD lol…that’s nerdy 😀 Thanks girl!
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. YOU ARE MY HERO! Love all of your recipes! Keep them coming 😀
Thanks Kat, you are so sweet! I appreciate all the support <3
Beautiful photos!! And cookies of course:) So YUM!
Thank you Faith 🙂
Hello. Is it possible to make without brown rice flour? I’m not sensitive to gluten, and I only have spelt flour at the moment. Thanks.
You can certainly try other flours, my only concern is the cookie might not be quite as crispy. Brown rice flour doesn’t absorb much moisture so it make for a great crisp texture. The spelt flour might make them a little chewier, but they will still taste fine!
I’ll try them with regular (white) rice flour. Can’t find the brown stuff anywhere around here (smalltown in the south of Sweden:).
It is certainly worth a try! Let me know how it goes 🙂
Oh my gosh Nat, you’ve blown my mind with how EASY these cookies are! And I love those filling options – how perfect are banana coins 😀
I loved the Magic School Bus too haha, I wonder if I can find the episodes on Youtube or somewhere…it would be fun to show my kids “this what what I used to watch on TV!” 😀
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The cookies blew my mind too! And the moment when I though “hey, a banana coin would work!” yeah that was pretty happy-making too 🙂 So Magic School Bus was international then?? Wow, who knew! I still have a few episodes on dvd, but i’m sure its online somewhere. That was a great show…although your kids will probably think its weird because that what I thought when my parents would show me what they used to watch haha! It’s the generational thing, we can never agree on music or tv or movies 😀
I used to LOVE oreos! Love the rich chocolatey cookie with a sweet cream center…I could never stop at one though and would eat half the bag, LOL! I love that you used brown rice flour, that is the exact flour I used in my classic chocolate chip cookies to get that crispy exterior as well, my exact reasoning, so I know these would be crispy too, YUM YUM. And oreos have to be crispy! These would be great with the peanut butter or heck, even a chocolate ganache, you know for major chocoholics like myself, lol! Oooh that’s giving me ideas. I’m not really a fan of coconut cream because of the strong coconut flavor, so I love that you added a peanut butter option. Great and simple recipe Natalie!
I used to love them so much too! I ate them in my school lunch mostly so that was good portion control since my mom only sent 2 haha! The brown rice flour is perfect for crispy things! I knew oat wouldn’t work and BR was the only other one I had on hand when I was making these at like 8pm at night, but logically it makes sense. There are lots of times when I hate brown rice flour in breads and things, but here it’s perfect. I wish they would stay crispy though, have you noticed that. The maple syrup thing works, but after a couple of days they are soft 🙁 Kinda like tiny whoopee pies, so still good but not as oreo perfect. GANACHE!!! That’s a great idea, you chocoholic brain works in delicious ways 🙂 Thanks Brandi!
Haha! Chocoholic brain….sooo funny! Yup, it’s always “on” LOL. Yes, I know what you mean, most cookies don’t stay crispy very long, especially non-fat ones, but that’s ok, just eat them faster 🙂
Natalie these look amazing (per usual), and I love that they are only made with 5 ingredients! 4 with real peanut butter (psssh low fat… lol I can’t do that)! I ADORE your recipe video too!
Magic School Bus + Oreos was such a great combination when I was younger, and I’m sure it would be now too (but sub the packaged 5000 ingredient Oreos for these 4-5 ingredient ones!). Now I want to watch Magic School Bus! I loved the episode when Arnold was sick and they went inside him- it was so cool to a science nerd like me! I want to see the Haunted House one now… Is it on Netflix?? Haha.