Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Whole Grain Oatmeal Cut-Out Cookies!



Especially for Extreme Boot Campers in Santa Monica! (You won't be doing push-ups for these...)

Whole Grain Oatmeal Cut-Out Cookies

Ingredients
1 cup canola butter
3/4 cup pure or sugar-free maple syrup*
*(may be substituted Splenda® brown sugar)
1 large egg
2 tsp. pure vanilla extract
½ tsp. sea salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
¼ tsp. ground cloves
1 cup old fashioned oats
1 ½ cups whole grain flour
1 cups white whole wheat or oat flour
½ cup Fruit sweetened chocolate chips, chopped (opt.)

Directions
Cream butter and sugar well, then beat in egg. Add vanilla, salt, spices, and baking powder. Stir in oats and flour. Add chopped chocolate if desired. Divide into three balls and wrap each in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.

Heat oven to 350 F. Spray a cookie sheet with non-stick spray. Roll out each dough disk to 1/4 inch or so thickness on a floured surface and cut into desired shapes with cookie cutters. Place close together on cookie sheet and bake for 10 - 15 minutes, until they are as crispy as you like!

2 comments:

Fitfoodie said...

What do you use for 'whole grain flour' in this recipe? You already have white whole wheat (or oat) flour and it calls for more 'whole grain' flour. Just curious what you use?

Fitfoodie said...

What do you use for 'whole grain flour' in this recipe? You already have white whole wheat (or oat) flour and it calls for more 'whole grain' flour. Just curious what you use?