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Sunday, July 12, 2009

Good for You Chocolate Chip Cookies!

I've been experimenting with some different recipes. I came across this one and my kids and husband couldn't tell a difference from the cookies I usually make, so I had to share! One thing I've been trying to do to make things a little more healthy is mix half whole wheat, half white flour with some wheat germ thrown in for my flour.
Enjoy!

Good for You Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:
1 cup rolled oats
1/2 cup butter (or 1/4 cup butter and 1/4 cup applesauce)
1 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup plain or vanilla low-fat yogurt
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 1/2 cups flour
1 cup miniature semisweet chocolate pieces

1. Turn on the oven to 375 degrees. Put oats in the shallow baking pan. Put the baking pan in the oven. Bake about 10 minutes or until toasted, stirring once with the wooden spoon. Use hot pads to remove baking pan from oven. Put oats in the food processor or blender. Cover and process or blend until oats are ground. Save until Step 2.
2. Put butter (or butter and applesauce) in a large mixing bowl. Beat butter with the electric mixer on med. to high speed for 30 seconds. Add brown sugar, baking soda, and salt. Beat until combined, stopping the mixer occasionally and scraping the sides with the rubber scraper. Add the yogurt, eggs and vanilla and beat until combined. Beat in as much of the flour as you can with the mixer. Stop the mixer. Stir in the oats and any remaining flour with the wooden spoon. Stir in chocolate pieces.
3. Drop dough by rounded teaspoons onto the ungreased cookie sheet. Fill the cookie sheet with mounds of dough, leaving about 2 inches between cookies. Put the cookie sheet in the oven. Bake for 9 to 11 minutes or until cookie bottoms are browned. Use the hot pads to remove cookie sheet from oven. Use the wide spatula to transfer cookies to the wire rack; let cookies cool. Repeat with remaining dough. Makes about 60 cookies!

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