Golden oat coconut cookies
There’s something deliciously comforting about these cookies – the creamy oats, sweet golden syrup and coconut go together like a dream. They’re so easy to whip up as well! You can add any nuts or fruit you’d like to this recipe, but I like them plain, served warm with a glass of chilled milk. Milk and cookies are not just for kids! Makes about 20.
Ingredients
150g butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 large free-range egg
2 tsp natural vanilla essence
1/4 cup golden syrup
1 1/4 cups plain flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 1/2 cup rolled oats
1 cup shredded or dessicated coconut
Method
Preheat the oven to 200c.
Cream the butter and sugar until thick and pale (you can use a food processor, cake mixer or do it by hand). Add the egg and continue mixing until well combined. Add the vanilla and golden syrup and mix again.
Mix in the flour, baking soda, baking powder and spices. Add the oats and coconut and mix well to combine.
Roll out into balls roughly the size of a golf ball. Place 6cm apart on a tray lined with baking paper and bake in the centre of the oven for 10 minutes, or a few minutes longer if you like them extra chewy.
Cool for a few minutes on the tray then transfer to a cooling rack.
Hi Chelsea
Can u really taste the ginger in them that much.Do you have to add it
OMG add a cup of white chocolate chunks into the mixture – delicious!! Especially when cookies are warm ????
Thanks for another fab recipe, Chelsea! I mixed in some chopped Whittakers Creamy Caramel for an extra bit of decadence into half the batch – delicious x
OMG I made these today and due to being pregnant I threw in a hand full each of walnuts sultanas and mini M&Ms. By god they were amazing, I may have also burnt my tongue testing them haha
The fist lot that came out of the oven was gone by the time I had cooked them all. I’ll just pretend that the first 8 didn’t exist haha
Hi, can you use honey instead of golden syrup? Thanks
Hi. Do you use fan bake for your recipes. I can not seem to find the information in your Eat Cook Book.
Thanks
Not for baking usually, but if you do you may need 10c cooler.
What happens if you leave out the cinnamon and/or use white sugar instead of brown
Good recipe
Thanks for them
Thank you, I wanted coconut cookies but didn’t have a lot of oats left. I added extra coconut and some sultanas and they were very good. :)
What can I substitute if I don’t want to put oats in?
They are oat cookies so I don’t really think there’s a good substitute sorry! Try the choc chip cookies, perhaps :)
Hi Chelsea, did you use whole oats or quick oats? Would it work with quick oats?
Either or :)
HI Chelsea, I love these cookies but was wanting to know what would you recommend for an egg substitute? Would a banana work?
Give it a go!
Did it work with a banana instead of egg???
These are my kids favourite, I make them all the time :)
Hi Chelsea,
Could you add chopped apricots or dates?
Sara McGuire
Just made these they are super yum. Thanks for the recipie.
Hi Chelsea, Would I need to alter any ingredients if I were to add raisins and apricots to this recipie?
Nope!
Hi Chelsea
Could I finely grate root ginger or do I have to buy ground ginger for this recipe. Is it a necessary ingredient? Thanks
No, yo can leave it out and yes, fresh ginger would work.
Hi Chelsea,
Can I use whole oats instead of rolled oats?
Thanks
Yes you can.
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Hi Chelsea, just wanted to let you know that I made this recipe this morning instead of the
ANZAC Biscuit recipe. We are all loving them. My husband and 18 month of daughter are went back for seconds. I am now waiting for the supermarket to open, so I can go and get the ingredients to try your Chocolate Tart this afternoon. Can’t wait to try some more of your recipes. Thank you for your wonderful recipes.
Oh no!! I made these but they’ve puffed up like cakes? I have no idea what I’ve done wrong. I put the raising agents in as per your recipe, and they don’t taste as though I have accidentally put too much in. I dunno what I did wrong lol. Oh well!! ANZAC cakes are totally where its at in 2014 right?!?!?
My daughter has gone glutin free while she is breast feeding, can I user glutin free SR flour instead od the normal flour and raising agents?
Sure thing!
This is the second recipe of yours I have done in the past week and I am officially in love!! I like hundreds of others saw the oaty ginger slice recipe and had to try it and it was incredible! These biscuits are a very close second though! Keep up the amazing work :) x
Hi Chelsea
I wanted to let you know that I love your recipes, my daughter has just been to NZ and I asked her to get me a copy of your book, she had to really search hard because they were all sold out! but bless her she managed to get one for me, Yay. She lives in Singapore so I won’t get my book untill June when she comes to the UK to visit me…. I cant wait to see them all, plus my book obviously!! she has already made Kiwi burgers for her Kiwi hubby from the book so it will be well used when…. or if I get it.!!! xx
Do you need to flatten them down? mine didnt come out as big and flat as your pic! still yum tho :)
Try next time if you want – it all depends on how soft the butter was/how hot your oven is and things like that!
These look delicious. I’m going to try them tomorrow for my family. Do you think they would taste ok with nestle caramel drops (like choc chips) in them? ;)
Yep for sure!
Hi Chelsea, can I substitute Golden Syrup to Maple Syrup instead? Currently living overseas and it’s difficult to get Golden Syrup where we are..
Sure thing!
These are so divine & very moreish! All my family love them – having to make more by request lol :)
Made these today and the kids couldn’t get to them quick enough. They won’t last long. Thanks for the recipe. Delicious. :-)
Do you have to put coconut in them?
No, you could add another 1/2 cup of oats instead :)