Hi Veggie Mamas and fellow curious cooks!
Being vegetarian is a choice we make for many reasons, but usually at its heart this decision is made because we want to be healthy and teach our children how to make healthy choices too! Kudos to you!
I don't know about you, but many of my childhood memories included something warm and fresh from the oven and although those are yummy memories, making cookies the way our grandparents, godparents and favorite Aunts did can be startling! The amount of refined sugar, chocolate chips with ingredients I can't pronounce, and shortening oh my!
I love the smell of cookies baking and so I set about finding a way to share these wonderful warm memories with my own daughter and give it a healthy Veggie Mama twist.
The first recipe I played with was Chocolate Chip cookies, but that's a recipe for another day :-)
Today the topic is Oatmeal raisin cookies. These cookies in particular are fun to play with because no two people like them the same way. If I ask my Dad he would say, "chocolate doesn't belong in a oatmeal cookie!" My sister on the other hand thinks raisins are a sure fire way to ruin a good oatmeal cookie. The one thing they can both agree on is that cinnamon is a definite No.
So forgive me Dad, sorry Sis. Here is MY idea of an oatmeal cookie!
For those of you paying attention I used Betty Crocker's Oatmeal Raisin Cookie recipe as my jumping off point!
Ingredients:
1/3 cup organic sugar
1/3 cup organic agave (blue agave is thicker and just as good)
2/3 cup organic light brown sugar
1 cup organic, unsalted butter, softened
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. ground cinnamon (I found a Saigon Cinnamon by McCormick that is wonderful!)
1 tsp. organic pure vanilla extract
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
2 large eggs
3 cups quick oats or old fashioned oats (by all means organic if you can find it!)
1 cup organic all-purpose flour
1/2 cup Ghiradelli Dark Chocolate Chips (60% cocao)
1/2 cup dark chocolate covered raisins
I know, Better Crocker is probably scratching her head too, but trust me. These are amazing!
Heat your oven to 375 degrees, unless you have a gas stove which I now do and then you have to find the balance between 325 and 350 degrees :-)
Set aside oats, flour, chocolate chips and raisins for last.
In a large mixing bowl cream your sugar, brown sugar, agave and butter. Add eggs, mixing in one at a time. Add baking soda, cinnamon, vanilla, baking powder and salt. Mix until well blended.
Stir in flour until combined. Stir oats into batter until incorporated throughout.
Add chocolate chips and chocolate covered raisins and stir all together.
Drop via teaspoon or cookie scoop onto an ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 8-11 minutes. Once the sides start to brown they are almost done, make sure the top doesn't look damp or your cookie is underdone. If the bottom is cooking too fast don't be afraid to turn down your heat a bit and let them cook up at their own pace.
Remove immediately from pan and place on cooling rack. If you're like me, once they are just cool enough to not burn yourself, break one of these bad boys open and take a gander at that wonderful blend of oats and antioxidant rich dark chocolate and raisins.
They aren't my Grandma's cookies, but I think she would approve!
Hope you enjoy!
Happy Veggie Eats!
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