These Whole Wheat Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies ended up being way healthier than I intended—by accident. Hemp hearts, palm sugar, and whole wheat flour make these cookies a better choice for lunches and snacks!

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

With whole wheat, hemp hearts and coconut sugar. Say what, Magpie? Who’s been baking in your kitchen, Magpie, ’cause you do NOT bake like this. Before you ask any question about the ingredients, I’m just going to say this:

It’s because it’s all I had.

Now that we have settled that, these are most certainly the oddest cookies I have baked up. I didn’t make them with the intent of being “healthier”, it’s literally….

…all I had.

I was out of white flour. I am in the middle of trying to clean out my pantry and ready myself for school and my Christmas rush season (which starts….now!) and for the baking and figuring out healthier options for the kids that takes over my life. I also had no sugar since I only use it for baking and if I’m out of white flour, I’m not really baking. Did that circuitous sentence make any sense to you? Basically, baking was at a standstill this summer. We live off of honey for everything else, so no sugar in the house is really not a problem for us.

Until you want to bake, that is.

Listen, I know I need to go grocery shopping. I just have to reach the back of the pantry somehow and actually make a real list of what I need for back to school. Two weeks into the actual school year.

I made the mistake of promising my children cookies without checking if I had the ingredients first. That’s totally rule #15 in the Parenting Handbook, what am I, a rookie? I promised cookies after a morning of helping me clean the house and jumping on the trampoline between running the vacuum for me upstairs. They worked hard. They deserved some delicious cookies for an afternoon treat.

I had nothing peeps, nothing.

Whole Wheat Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie on a white cloth background

Tips and Tricks for Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

If you want larger cookies like shown, roll the dough into golf ball sized balls and place 6 to a cookie sheet. Press them flat with the bottom of a glass, making sure to wet the bottom of the glass with water if the cookies stick.
This is a good way to sneak hemp hearts into a kids diet as neither of mine really enjoy the flavor. I pulled them out of the fridge and thought meh, let’s add a couple of tablespoons. They bring a lovely nutty flavor to the cookie.
You can’t even tell they are whole wheat, the hidden hemp hearts make me laugh since the kids scarf these back like nobody’s business and I had no idea that the coconut palm sugar was one of the best natural sweeteners out there, even better than agave it seems. I usually don’t believe the hype on sweeteners, it’s still sugar, but a sugar that won’t cause such huge crashes after the high apparently.
If you want your cookies to look like mine, add on some extra chocolate chips while they are baking!

More Oatmeal Cookies Recipes

A whole wheat, giant flake oatmeal cookie, with hemp hearts, lower glycemic index sugar and good quality chocolate chips. Both sides win. Try them, love them, play with the recipe and let me know any fun variations you make! I am going to whip up another version next week and see how the kids like them.

Happy baking!

Karlynn