Preheat and oven to 350°F and line a sheet pan with parchment paper.

Add the oats and pecans to a food processor and process for 15-30 seconds until it is a fine flour and no more whole oats remain. Be careful not to process it into butter though! Pecans have a natural high oil content and will turn moist rather quick.

Add the flaxseed, coconut sugar and salt and pulse just a few seconds more. Add the syrup and vanilla and process until it forms into thick chunks and then stop. It should stick and hold together when pressed with your fingers. See video for reference.

Form large balls, using about 3 tablespoons worth of dough, and roll in between your hands until smooth and round. You should make 7 large balls. Place 2 inches apart on the cookie sheet. Press down each cookie to about 1/4 inch thickness and they should be 2 to 2 1/2 inches wide. Piece any cracked edges together.

Bake for exactly 10 minutes. This will yield a crispy, buttery cookie while still keeping them moist. Let them cool for 10 minutes on the pan and then transfer to a cooling rack with a papertowel underneath them to drain excess oil. Pecans release their natural oils during baking, so I find cooling them additionally on a papertowel solves this.

For serving, add the cocowhip right beforehand, as it melts fairly quickly.