Fall is officially here and that means it's apple season. Take a trip to your local orchard and pick a peck of McIntosh, Cortland, or Empire apples and give this recipe a try. With chunks of apples, oats, flax meal, and walnuts, these are packed with fiber and a taste that'll warm your soul.
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Recipe for Apple Oatmeal Flax Cookies
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Ingredients
1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
1/4 cup flax meal (ground flaxseed)
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup vegetable oil
1 cup Sucanat (or sugar)
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups quick oats
2 medium apples, peeled and chopped
1 cup walnuts
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350° F.
- In a bowl, mix the flour, flax meal, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
- In a separate bowl, beat together oil, Sucanat, eggs, and vanilla until fluffy. Stir in the oats, apples, flour mixture, and nuts.
- Spoon out cookies onto a lightly greased cookie sheet. Cook seven to eight minutes, or until edges are slightly brown. Place cookies on a cooling rack.
Makes three dozen cookies.
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Mark Davis
And the baking temperature is????
1I just ran out and bought the ingredients fully prepared to try these cookies when I just noticed that there is no damn baking temperature!
2Saw this and thought I could improve it- if you use apple sauce instead of a very unhealthy vegetable oil, instead of around 128 calories per cookie, you can get around 80 calories (and still less if you substitute Stevia and a bit of applesauce for the sugar). You don't need oil for great cookies. This was a good idea though!
3I would assume 350 because that's the norm. Just check them often to be sure
4Sorry about that. Preheat the oven to 350° F.
5Thanks Fit, those look delicious! I'll have to make them this weekend!
Lavina, I love the idea of using apple sauce instead of oil (I'm obsessed with apples at the moment) - how much apple sauce should I use?
6I made them! I figured, ok 350 should do but I got scared and let them sit for longer than 8 minutes cause they still looked a bit squishy. They came out great though after a good 15 minutes and letting them sit and cool. My kids actually like them and they don't know they are getting healthy stuff. I might keep making them cause now I can't stop eating them!
7Great recipe idea!
Advah- me too! Especially since it'll make these cookies shine with the apple bits already in there. You just use the same amount- so for this recipe, one cup.
8And instead of sugar, sweeten with agave nectar, and then it's even healthier...
9TammyO - I'm so glad you love them as much as me! They really are so tasty.
10TammyO's predicament cracked me up. I want to make these too, with applesauce.
11if you replace sugar with agave nectar, any idea about the quantity?
12I just made these- replaced the vegetable oil with organic applesauce & replaced the sugar with the agave nectar. (same amount, 1 cup). They taste yummy, however don't look like the pictures above. Cookies are fuller, not really flat looking. Almost taste like a zucchini bread would... so they weren't exactly what I was hoping for, but are still good AND healthy, so they work!
13what is the calorie count for one serving (assuming one cookie)?
14can you use 1/2 oil and 1/2 applesauce in same recipe?
15If you are using Agave Nectar, you should use half the amount as called for sugar because agave has twice the amount of sugar as regular white sugar (so for this recipe, 1/2 c. agave). Just a tip i thought I'd thrown in since you'll are trying to be healthy and stuff. Can't wait to make these for my kids tonight!!
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