Description
Scrumptious healthy oatmeal cookies bring wholesome goodness to your snack time. Nutty oats, sweet honey, and crunchy nuts create a delightful treat perfect for wellness-minded snackers.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 ½ cups (120 g) rolled oats
- ¾ cup (95 g) whole wheat flour or all-purpose flour
- ½ cup (100 g) mashed banana or unsweetened applesauce
- 1 egg or 1 flax egg (1 tbsp flaxseed + 3 tbsps water)
- ¼ cup (60 ml) coconut oil or melted butter
- ¼ cup (60 ml) honey or maple syrup
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- ¼ tsp salt
- ⅓ cup dark chocolate chips, raisins, or chopped nuts (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat Preparation: Calibrate the oven to 350°F (175°C), creating an optimal thermal environment for baking delectable cookies.
- Surface Setup: Layer a baking sheet with parchment paper, establishing a smooth, non-adhesive platform for cookie placement.
- Dry Ingredient Fusion: Whisk flour, oats, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt in a comprehensive mixing vessel, ensuring uniform distribution of dry components.
- Butter Transformation: Cream softened butter with sugars, agitating until the mixture achieves a light, aerated consistency with complete sugar integration.
- Moisture Integration: Infuse the butter blend with egg and vanilla extract, stirring until a seamless, homogeneous texture emerges.
- Dough Consolidation: Delicately merge dry ingredients into the wet mixture, folding with precision to maintain the dough’s delicate structural integrity.
- Flavor Enhancement: Gently incorporate raisins or chocolate chips, dispersing them evenly throughout the dough to guarantee consistent taste profiles.
- Portioning and Placement: Utilize a cookie scoop to deposit uniform dough mounds onto the prepared baking surface, allowing adequate spacing for potential expansion.
- Baking Refinement: Position the cookie-laden sheet in the preheated oven, monitoring for 10-12 minutes until edges develop a golden-brown hue indicating perfect doneness.
- Cooling Protocol: Extract from oven and permit cookies to rest momentarily on the baking sheet, then transition to a wire rack for complete temperature stabilization.
Notes
- Customize Moisture Level: Adjust oats quantity to control cookie softness – more oats create denser, chewier texture while fewer oats result in lighter, softer cookies.
- Prevent Dryness: Add mashed banana or applesauce as natural moisture enhancers, replacing some butter to maintain softness and boost nutritional value without compromising taste.
- Boost Nutritional Profile: Experiment with alternative flour types like almond or whole wheat to increase protein content and create gluten-free or low-carb variations that suit different dietary needs.
- Temperature Precision: Use room temperature ingredients, especially butter and egg, to ensure even mixing and consistent cookie texture, preventing potential ingredient separation during preparation.
- Prep Time: 10 min
- Cook Time: 10-12 minutes
- Category: Snacks, Desserts
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 11
- Calories: 150
- Sugar: 8 g
- Sodium: 100 mg
- Fat: 7 g
- Saturated Fat: 5 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 22 g
- Fiber: 2 g
- Protein: 3 g
- Cholesterol: 20 mg