Vanilla Granola & Chocolate Chip Cookies

 

The other day we made a trip to Sprouts, because they have like, THE best sales, EVER and a ton of bulk product.

 

I got my hands on some delicious, organic, vanilla granola. Think of it as the honey bunches part of Honey Bunches of Oats. Just vanilla granola and some almond slivers. Yum.

 

The other day, my Boo asked me to bake some cookies and so I tried something new and threw the granola in, where I’d usually throw in oatmeal or whatever else. And, of course, chocolate chips.

 

You’ve gotta have chocolate chips.

 

 

INGREDIENTS:

1c margarine/butter, softended
1c granulated sugar
1c brown sugar
2 eggs
1tsp vanilla extract
2c all purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
1tsp baking soda
1tsp salt
2 – 3 cups of granola, depending on what kind, how dense and so on
1c chocolate chips

DIRECTIONS:

Cream butter and sugars until smooth; beat in eggs and vanilla. Combine and blend thoroughly flour, cinnamon, baking soda and salt; beat into creamed mixture. Stir in granola and chocolate chips.

Bake at 375 for 7-9 minutes.

 

Enjoy!

Old Fashioned Oatmeal Cookies

I’m trying to watch the first season of Walking Dead, and write recipes for cookies. Zombies and treats, yay, Friday! Haha….

I’ve searched and I’ve searched for an oatmeal cookie recipe that I actually liked, one that used real oats, not powdery quick oats, and one that my son would like, without being too sweet.

Couldn’t find it, so I made it up.

It uses very little flour, little sugar and is essentially a baked, flavored, cereal. Which is perfect because everybody eats them for breakfast sometimes, especially the baby… He says, “Cookie?” Yes, you can have a cookie. You can have anything you want with that face… Smh.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are obviously, only a slight difference in my three types of cookies. One are plain, one have chocolate chips and the others have chocolate and peanut butter chips. They all bake the same.

INGREDIENTS:

3/4 Cup all purpose flour
1/2 Tsp baking soda
1 Tsp Cinnamon
3/4 Cup brown sugar, packed
3 Cups of whole oats
1 Tsp Salt
1/2 Cup mix in’s of your choice
3/4 Cup butter, softened or melted
1 Tsp vanilla
1 Egg
A splash of milk, trust me.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Mix dry ingredients… Mix wet ingredients… Combine.

Bake at 350 until brown at the edges but SOFT in the center. It’s better to be on the soft side, when they’re hard, they’re like granola. Which might not be bad, if that’s what you’re going for! I like them soft in the center though, especially the chocolate chip ones!

Enjoy!