Sunbutter Raisin Cookie Drops – Simple & Tasty

These stovetop Melt-In-Your-Mouth Sunbutter Raisin Cookie Drops were supposed to be a basic oatmeal raisin cookie recipe, but I added too much sunflower seed butter, by accident, when I first tested them. This made them so gooey and decadent that I just had to share this happy mistake!

Sweetened with simple raisins and made with gluten-free oats and (sunflower) seed butter these 12 to 15-minute single-pan stovetop cookies have almost zero clean-up, and need next to no effort.

Recipe Overview – Sunbutter Raisin Cookie Drops

Short Recipe Video – Sunbutter Raisin Cookie Drops

The Menu for Sunbutter Raisin Cookie Drops

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Directions at a Glance for Sunbutter Raisin Cookie Drops

Note: If you’re not using a spice grinder then you can blend the raisins with any blending/processing device—or use raisin or date sugar or syrup with ground flax seeds and oat flour, if you don’t want to use any grinding or blending equipment.

1. Grind all the dry ingredients then mix all the ingredients together.
2. Pour and shape the batter on a seasoned pan and cook for 5 minutes on medium heat. (Drop 2.5 tbsp worth of batter for each individual cookie.)
3. Flip the cookie and cook for another 5 minutes. The cookies should have a perfectly golden brown crispy crust and the edges and the center should still be gooey and soft.

Why This Recipe for Sunbutter Raisin Cookie Drops?

Oatmeal raisin cookies sound like they’d be healthy by nature, but they are usually loaded with ultra processed, and refined ingredients, as well as sweeteners, and even animal products.

Oatmeal raisin cookies were always hit or miss as a kid, but if you’ve ever had a good one then you know just how amazing they can be!

Maybe from your mother or grandmother, or that one table at the school bake-sale that one year that were just shockingly good!

The trick is to always use some kind of seed or nut butter—to make them super moist and so they would melt in your mouth!

While testing out this recipe I accidently doubled the amount of sunflower seed butter that I had intended to use. This “happy accident” created these super soft and chewy cookies that are so addictive, so it’s a great thing that they are so quick and easy to make!

Have ideas for recipes or feedback? Let me know in the comments or connect with me on substack or Instagram!

Blending Without a Spice/Coffee Grinder

You can use any type of blender, just blend everything (except the portion of whole oats) and then follow the directions for pouring the batter.

If you want you can try to use your stick blender to blend the ingredients, like in the video below, but I recommend just blending it with liquid and your stock blender.

⭐The Full Sunbutter Raisin Cookie Drops Recipe⭐

Sunbutter Raisin Cookie Drops

Chef Rob

A super gooey take on the humble oatmeal cookie.

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Prep Time 2 minutes mins

Cook Time 10 minutes mins

Total Time 12 minutes mins

Course Baked Goods, Dessert, Junk Food, Pastry, Snack

Cuisine Scottish

Servings 6 cookies

Calories 125 kcal

Equipment

• 1 Seasoned Steel or Cast Iron Pan (How-to Season Steel Cookware)
• 1 Spice / Coffee Grinder (or blender/processor)

Ingredients

  

Sunbutter Raisin Cookie Drops

• ¼ cup oats flour
• ¼ cup oat whole
• ¼ cup raisins blended
• ¼ cup raisins whole
• 2 tbsp flax seeds milled
• ½ tsp cinnamon
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 4 tbsp sun butter (sunflower seed butter or other seed or nut butter)
• ½ cup water

Instructions

 

• Add oat flour (or oats for blending), raisins for blending, and flaxseeds to a spice grinder or blender then mix all the dry ingredients together.
  
• Add and mix the wet and dry ingredients until you have a uniform texture. It should be thick and not runny.
  
• Drop spoonfuls of the batter to a seasoned pan on medium heat. Cook for 5 minutes or until the bottom is golden brown. Flip the cookies and cook for 5 more minutes.

  The top and bottom should be nice and crispy and the inside should be wonderfully gooey with plumped raisins and flowing seed butter.
  

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🧂If you absolutely must add salt or sugar then try to add them to taste, to the top of the food, so you use less, and add in small amounts and only after tasting before adding any more. The same goes for other “less healthy” additions, but the idea should be to try to limit and eventually remove adding them, over time, when you are ready. (Use a finer ground salt as it will taste saltier.)

After a few weeks of not eating a SAD diet your tastebuds reset and you’ll notice and be surprised by the natural sugars and sodium in foods, check out the great article, and subscribe to, Michael Corthell on Substack.

💡Protips💡

Mix Well

• Ensure that the sunflower seed butter and everything is mixed well and is a uniform texture for the best results. If you want you can add additional small clumps of seed butter to the batter.

Alternatives To Sun Butter

• If you don’t have a seed butter you can also grind or blend seeds or nuts into a fine powder and add water until it resembles a seed butter.
• If you don’t want to use sun (sunflower seed) butter then pumpkin seed butter (although will have some festive green) or tahini, or any other seed or nut butter should work.
• Play around, try peanut/almond/hemp butter, if you can and you aren’t allergic, and try cocoa powder, or maybe blended orange, raspberries, or cherries in place of the raisins for something truly your own and unique. Try spices like cloves, ginger, coriander seeds, allspice, etc.

Substitutes

Substitutes For Raisins as a Sweetener

• Instead of raisins you could try apple sauce, or ripe mashed bananas, or raisin syrup paste date syrup or paste is another option especially if you don’t want to blend it grind anything.

Flaxseeds

• I use brown flax but golden flax should work too. I use raw untoasted flax since I can toast it myself and I won’t be doing it with industrial equipment at high temperatures for short times.
• The measurements are for pre-ground / milled flaxseeds.
• Ground chia seeds work well as a substitute, but will be even gooeyer than expected.

Make Raisin Syrup Paste

• By simply cooking raisins with water and blending or mashing you can make a easy whole food sweetener that is filled with healthy fiber to blunt glycemic index spikes. The same can be done with dates, and many other dried fruits.

Make It Sweeter

• If it’s not sweet enough then feel free to add more whole or blended raisins as needed. Just remember, that sugar is still sugar so try to keep well below the recommended daily intake for sugar (see the nutrition facts).
• I also like to press some fruit into the center which can be sweet like blueberries etc. or even tart and sour to contrast like I’ve done with fresh cranberries below.

Make It Gooeyer and Creamier

• Add 2 more tablespoons for even creamier cookies! Warning this will be very gooey and is best eaten with a fork or spoon unless you want to make a mess.
• Add a ½ tsp (thumbprints) to each cookie as soon as you pour it into the pan.
• Use more oat flour and less whole oats for a gooeyer cookie, or more oats for a chewier cookie.

Wet Spatula For Easy Flipping

• I’ve mentioned this before, but if your spatula is a bit damp (not soaking wet) when you go to lift your food from a pan then the heat creates a layer of steam that keeps the food from sticking to the spatula.

Blenders, Food Processors, and Immersion Blenders

If you don’t have a spice or coffee grinder or oat/flax flour then check out the alternative blending section for how to create this recipe with almost any blending device.

No Equipment At All

• If you have oat flour and milled flaxseeds then you can substitute the blended raisins for bananas, apple sauce, or other whole foods sweeteners. Otherwise, all you need is a seasoned pan and a spatula.

Nutrition Facts Table – Sunbutter Raisin Cookie Drops

The Science – Sources

Please tell me how it turned out! Did you: try it, like it, hate it, change it, or do something else unexpected???

If I’ve made any mistakes, or something doesn’t make sense, or if you want more/less details, please let me know in the comments.

Stay healthy and nourished! Happy cooking!

Chef Robert Leigh.

Sunbutter Raisin Cookie Drops – Simple & Tasty