Healthier, yes. Healthy, no. They’re still cookies! Instead of buying expensive processed treats, consider baking your own so you can control what’s in them. In this case, they’re Healthier Chocolate Chip Cookies because they have whole wheat flour and oatmeal for fiber and whole grains, some of the butter is replaced with canola oil, and you only use half a bag of chocolate chips (to my husband’s lament). I baked a big batch and make them lunch-box sized (very small), then put them in freezer bags to take out during busy weeks when there’s no time to bake.
- 3/4 cup rolled oats (grind in blender or food processor)
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 cup butter, softened
- 1/4 cup canola oil
- 1/3 cup white sugar
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Grind oats in blender or food processor (I have a single serving smoothie blender and just pulsed a few times).
- Pour into a bowl along with flour, baking soda and salt.
- Beat butter in a separate bowl with an electric mixer until fluffy.
- Add oil, sugars, egg and vanilla; beat until smooth and creamy.
- With the mixer, add in the dry ingredients, beating on low speed until just combined.
- Stir in the chocolate chips.
- Bake cookies until firm around the edges and golden on top, about 15 minutes (since I made my cookies so small, they were done much sooner).
- Cool for 2 minutes before moving them to wire racks to cool completely.
Whenever I do a double- or quadruple-batch of baking, I use my Wilton 3-Tier Cooling Rack Set. They’re such a space saver! I can stack them on the counter or kitchen table and still have plenty of room to work.
This recipe is linked up to Friday Food at MomTrends and Tasty Tuesday at Balancing Beauty & Bedlam.
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I think butter is healthier. Canola oil is heavily processed, even if the other urban legends about it are false. I always replace about half the flour in cookies with whole wheat flour or oat flour, but as far as the rest goes…we just don’t eat them every day
I know–the best thing would be to skip them altogether, but we allow for little treats here and there. I find all of the processed vs. saturated vs. otherthingsbadforyou so hard to follow. Seems like everything is bad in some way!
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Thanks for this suggestion! I don’t have anyone in school until next year, but I’m already gathering lunch ideas, and will include this.
I’m sending this recipe to my sister, a newly wed; her husband enjoys sweets and this one will give him an additional benefit…fiber! Thanks!