Good for You! Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

In the last month we have posted a few good cookie recipes...thought we would just keep it going....


Good for You! Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

Pre heat oven to 350 degrees

Mix together:
1 cup whole wheat pastry flour (or white)
1teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon salt
2 cups dry oatmeal

Mix together:
2 eggs
½ cup fresh maple syrup (honey can be substituted)
½ cup corn oil
1 teaspoon vanilla

Mix well wet and dry ingredients above and add:
1 cup of chopped walnuts
½ package or 1/2 cup of chocolate chips

Drop heaping tablespoons full of batter onto lightly oiled baking try. Press cookies down to flatten and bake 20 minutes till lightly browned.

Another delicious and nutritious Cookie

Raspberry Jam Dot Cookies

         raspberry jam ( any flavor can be substituted)

Dry:  1 cup almonds

         1 cup rolled oats

         1 cup whole wheat pastry flour

         ¼ teaspoon cinnamon

         a pinch of salt

Wet:  ½ cup maple syrup

         ½ cup canola oil

Note for gluten free…I took out oats and flour and used 1.5 cups of almonds and 1.5 cups of gluten free flour (available in natural food stores)

Procedure

1.  Process almonds in food processor into a coarse nut flour.

2.     Process oats in food processor into a coarse oat flour.

3.     Combine all dry ingredients together.

4.     Mix oil and maple syrup together.

5.     Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and mix well.

6.     Form walnut size balls, flatten a bit, and put a thumb print in middle.

7.     Fill each thumb print with ½ teaspoon of raspberry jam.

8.     Bake at 350 degrees for 10-15 minutes or until golden colored.

Natural Gourmet Cook School/ All That Matters 99

Chickpea and Chocolate Chip Cookies?

These cookies are simple, flour-less, egg-less, dairy-less- but not tasteless!
Rachel our Office Manager brought them to work the other day and we ate them right up. Thank You Rachel!

15 ounces of whole chickpeas (if can- drain and rinse)
1/2 cup peanut butter (the real stuff)
1/4 cup maple syrup (the real stuff)
2 tsps vanilla extract

1 tbs baking powder

1/3 cup oatmeal (optional, I included it)

1/2 cup chocolate chips

Blend or Cuisinart all but chocolate chips. Fold in chocolate chips.
Mix in chocolate chips and bake at 375 until the top cracks, and the bottom is golden brown.

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Another fun summer chocolate recipe I tried recently is 
Chocolate Salted fresh Pineapple from the Whole Foods site- they have some good recipes.

Click here for the recipe.