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Giant Oatmeal Drop Cookies
"You won't believe these are low-fat cookies! Recipe source: Cooking Light March 1999. Each cookie is 196 calories."
photo by Lalaloula
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Yields:
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15 cookies
ingredients
- 1 cup packed dark brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon butter or 1 tablespoon margarine, softened
- 1⁄2 cup applesauce
- 1 large egg
- 1 1⁄2 cups flour
- 1 1⁄2 cups rolled oats
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 cup raisins
- 1⁄2 cup walnuts
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons vanilla
- cooking spray
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F Grease cookie sheets with cooking spray.
- Beat sugar and butter together until blended.
- Add applesauce and egg; beat well.
- Combine flour, oats, soda, cinnamon and salt in small bowl.
- Add flour mixture to sugar/butter mixture; beat until blended.
- Stir in raisins, walnuts and vanilla.
- Using 3 level tablespoon, drop dough 2- inches apart on prepared cookie sheets.
- Flatten slightly.
- Bake at 350°F for 10-15 minutes.
- Remove from pan; cool.
Questions & Replies
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Someone said they used coconut and choc chips too. I would like to add the coconut. Should something else or more butter be added so the cookie doesn’t become dry
Reviews
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These can be addicting! I omitted the raisins and added whatever nuts I had - pistachios, almonds, walnuts and cashews. I'd say more than 1 cup. Also made them smaller, so had at least 2 dozen. They were so good! No one missed all the butter that's usually in a cookie recipe!! -
Sorry we did care for these found them a bit dry. -
These were so good that I made a second batch! Cant even tell they are low fat! I will definitely add this is my cookie recipe book!
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Just made these...yummy delicious. So soft in the middle and not overly sweet tasting at all. The only thing I did different was to add a mixture of currents and raisins to make 1 cup.. omitting the nuts. Mine needed the 15 minutes in oven. Super delicious and I will definitely make again. Thanks for sharing the recipe. -
So Good!! I Added coconut flakes & chocolate chips to the recipe! Total hit with my boys!! A new favorite. Thanks for sharing:)
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Tweaks
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More of a cookie bar (cake-like) than a cookie. I subbed 3/4 cup chocolate chips for the raisins & walnuts, but I think they would have been better w/ the raisins & nuts b/c of the strong cinnamon taste. I got 20+ decent sized cookies. -
Yum. These are great, nobody even knew they were low fat. I overcooked the first batch I made because I forgot I was baking but the flavor was still good, just dry. So I made a 2nd batch, I used chocolate chips instead of raisins & I didn't use nuts. I also made smaller cookies so my batch made 2 dozen. I cooked them about 10 mins. & they are great. I am using them for the treat to BOO (BOO'ed) my neighbors. Thanks for sharing this recipe. -
These cookies are by far the best low-fat oatmeal cookies I've ever made, but boy, they're SWEET! I had made them thinking of a breakfast cookie, but these definitely fall in the dessert category. They really taste like the good ol'Robin-Hood-bag-recipe raisin oatmeal cookies, but without all that butter (and who misses it, really ?!), with a lovely vanilla flavour (I used pure vanilla extract). I doubled the raisins instead of using nuts, used 3/4 cup soy flour and 3/4 cup whole wheat flour, and made 12 huge cookies. I baked them for 12 minutes, with perfect doneness IMO. I'll make these again for sure! -
Love it! I added fresh strawberries instead of raisins and nuts which made them really light and sweet, though I had to bake them longer to get the moisture out. They are superb and every flavor stands out perfectly! Will definitely make again!
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Wow! I have had a hard time substituting applesauce in for fat in cookie recipes, so I was really excited to give this one a try. They definitely live up to the reviews! I made twelve gigantic cookies, and baked them for ten minutes. The apple flavor blends very well and did not stick out at all. Also, applesauce gives stuff a muffin-type texture, but flattening the cookies out really helps disguise this. The batter is sticky - it's easy to flatten them with an oiled spatula. The major plus of the applesauce texture is that they probably won't ever get hard on you. ..I omitted the nuts and compensated with more raisins. I also used the frosting from recipe #23841 to make these into ridiculously huge cream pies. They were sooo delicious that way, but it does up the fat, and these cookies can certainly stand on their own. Great recipe!! Thank you so much!!
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<p>I love cooking and trying different foods, but my favorite cookbooks are now Weight Watchers or low fat/low cal cookbooks as I tend to try and make low fat/low cal recipes. I lost over 90 pounds on Weight Watchers and have maintained for over a year now -- so my cooking/eating habits have changed drastically following my weight loss and to keep it off!</p>
