Healthy Breakfast Cookies

Name: Healthy Breakfast Cookies
Total time: 600 s
Yield: 60 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 cup Organic Blue Agave Nectar; 1 cup Brown Sugar; 1 cup Butter, softened; 1 cup Unsweetened Applesauce; 2 tsp Baking Soda; 1 tbsp Ground Cinnamon; 1 tbsp Vanilla Extract; 1 tsp Baking Powder; 1 tsp Sea Salt, finely ground; 4 Eggs, large; 6 1/2 cup Six-grain cereal (like old-fashioned Oats) uncooked; 2 1/4 cup Flour, all-purpose or Whole Wheat; 2 cup raisins, nuts or dark chocolate chips; 1/2 cup flaxseed meal, optional

Kat_in_AridZona @cook_2861538

Mesa, Arizona

I had read Cooking for Geeks, and it was discussing the way to make alterations to recipes, substituting ingredients, and wanted to make oatmeal cookies even healthier, primarily by reducing the sugar. The is was the result of several incremental changes to the basic recipe.

Kat_in_AridZona @cook_2861538

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Ingredients

10 mins

60 servings

first, mix together.
1 cupOrganic Blue Agave Nectar
1 cupBrown Sugar
1 cupButter, softened
1 cupUnsweetened Applesauce
2 tspBaking Soda
1 tbspGround Cinnamon
1 tbspVanilla Extract
1 tspBaking Powder
1 tspSea Salt, finely ground
4Eggs, large
6 1/2 cupSix-grain cereal (like old-fashioned Oats) uncooked
2 1/4 cupFlour, all-purpose or Whole Wheat
2 cupraisins, nuts or dark chocolate chips
1/2 cupflaxseed meal, optional

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Steps

10 mins

1

Mix first nine ingredients together well
2

Add in eggs, one at a time, until mixed in well.
3

Add in Six-grain cereal, 2 cups at a time and mix well.
4

mix in flour and any optional ingredients and finish mixing
5

cover and refrigerate for 10 - 20 minutes.
6

Preheat oven to 375°F.
7

Place Parchment onto a cookie sheet (or lightly spray with Olive oil)
8

Drop by spoonful onto cookie sheet, spaced apart by about 1/2 inch or so and lightly mashed down.
9

Bake for 9 - 11 minutes, until golden brown. Makes about 5 dozen cookies.