These cookies are something I have been making for years. It was inspired by a Cooking Light recipe that I have adapted, using less sugar and substituting healthier ingredients. Each cookie is filled with goodness like cholesterol lowering oats, whole wheat pastry flour, dried cranberries, baby food prunes, coconut butter and just the right amount of pumpkin pie spice. When Katy was in high school I would bake up a big batch of these and wrap them individually and pop them in the freezer. She would take one daily in her lunch along with home made soup in a thermos. She was the envy of her lunch buddies! Now she is student teaching and still taking one of these cookies with her daily!
Oatmeal Spice Breakfast Cookie
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup brown sugar, packed
- 1/3 cup water
- 1/3 cup skim milk
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon coconut butter — melted (or butter or vegetable oil)
- 5 ounces baby food prunes — 2- 2 1/2 ounce containers
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
- 3 cups oats, rolled (raw)
- 1 cup Craisins
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Combine first 7 ingredients in a large bowl, stir well with a wire whisk. Combine flour, bakaing soda and salt, add to sugar mixture, stir until blended. Stir in oats and cranberries.
Spray baking sheets with non stick spray, spray a 1/4 cup measure cup with non stick spray. For each cookie measure a scant 1/4 cup (not quite full), drop dough onto prepared baking sheet. Bake in preheated oven for 16 -18 minutes or until lightly browned. Let cool on baking sheet for a few minutes before removing them to a wire rack to cool completely. Cookies will be soft.
Yield: 24 cookies Serving Size: 1 cookie
Per Serving: 154 Calories; 1g Fat (6.9% calories from fat); 3g Protein; 33g Carbohydrate; 2g Dietary Fiber; trace Cholesterol; 155mg Sodium. WWPP 4
Make 48 smaller cookies using 2 tablespoons of dough per cookie, reduce baking time to 10-12 minutes.
Yield: 48 cookies Serving Size: 1 cookie
Per Serving: 77 Calories; 1g Fat (6.9% calories from fat); 1g Protein; 17g Carbohydrate; 1g Dietary Fiber; trace Cholesterol; 78mg Sodium. WWPP 2
Inspired by a Cooking Light Recipe
See where I posted about this recipe here.
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