Easy sunflower seed oatmeal cookie recipe

This easy sunflower seed oatmeal cookie recipe is delicious! It’s chompy and chewy and very simple to make with children. Give it a try!

 

Easy sunflower seed oatmeal cookie recipe

Click here to download your copy of the Sunflower School curriculum and printables.

 

As our sunflower growing project comes to an end, we can harvest our sunflower seeds and use them to grow new plants and to eat.

Let’s use some of the sunflower seeds we have harvested to make a delicious cookie.

 

 

Start by dry roasting a cup (140g, 4oz) of sunflower seeds in a frying pan, to get them extra delicious.

 

 

Next, in a large bowl, beat together 1 cup (225g, 8oz) of room-temperature butter, half a cup (125g, 40z) of caster sugar, and half a cup (125g, 4oz) of soft brown sugar.

 

 

Add in two eggs and one teaspoon of vanilla extract.

 

 

Add 2 cups (225g, 8oz) self-raising flour and 1/4 teaspoon (optional) of salt and mix well.

 

 

Stir in the roasted sunflower seeds, 1 cup (75g, 2oz) flaked coconut, and 2 cups (170g, 6 oz) oats.

 

 

Place heaped tablespoons of the cookie dough onto baking sheets lined with baking parchment.

Bake in the over at Gas mark 4, 350F, 175C for about 10 minutes until golden.

 

 

When baked, leave to cool on the baking sheet for a minute or two and then transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely.

You can store the cookies in an air-tight tin for a few days and they are delicious with a glass or milk or cup of tea.

 

 

 

Sunflower School curriculum and printables

Click here to download your copy of the Sunflower School curriculum.

 

The Sunflower School curriculum matches a full programme of learning to the natural growing cycle of sunflowers. 

It gives you six units of learning:

:: In the spring we’ll focus on planting and watching our plants grow.

:: In the summer we’ll learn about bees and pollination, and celebrate the gorgeous blooms through art.

:: In the late summer and early autumn we’ll turn our attention to harvesting, sustainability, and closing of the growing year.

 

 

Bonus sunflower printables

Our Sunflower School curriculum comes with 30 pages of bonus printables that you can use with your children to enrich their learning, including:

• My Sunflower Journal printable
• Lined, plain, and half-and-half journal pages
• Sunflower poems printable
• Sunflower sticker sheet
• Printable plant labels
• Sunflower counting mat
• Sunflower addition mat
• Sunflower subtraction mat
• Sunflower word mats
• Bee number cards
• Bee writing and scissor skills pages
• Garden Creatures page
• Honeycomb alphabet
• Printable seed packets

 

Click here to download the complete set of Sunflower School resources.