Healthy Cranberry Walnut Cookies
- Ready In:
- 22mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Yields:
-
42 cookies
- Serves:
- 42
ingredients
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Dry
- 473.18 ml rolled oats (not instant)
- 473.18 ml whole wheat flour (you can use bread flour or whole wheat pastry flour depending on how "wholesome" you like your healt)
- 0.61 ml salt
- 473.18 ml walnuts (halves or pieces)
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Wet
- 118.29 ml melted butter (1 stick)
- 118.29 ml light olive oil
- 236.59 ml pure maple syrup
- 2 eggs
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Mix in
- 236.59 ml dried sweetened cranberries (Craisins)
- 78.78 ml rolled oats
- 59.14 ml turbinado sugar (can be added to wet or dry ingredients if your family is used to sweeter treats, optional) (optional) or 59.14 ml brown sugar (can be added to wet or dry ingredients if your family is used to sweeter treats) (optional)
directions
- Heat oven to 375°F.
- To mix dry ingredients- pulse 2 cups oats in food processor until broken into small pieces. Add flour and salt and process until thoroughly mixed. Add walnuts and pulse a few times till nuts are in small pieces unless using already chopped nuts, in which case just mix them inches My food processor is not big enough to make this double recipe so I empty the dry ingredients into a mixing bowl (or my stand mixer bowl if I'm feeling lazy).
- Next mix wet ingredients- add melted butter, olive oil, maple syrup and eggs to the food processor and process until throughly mixed.
- Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and mix thoroughly.
- Stir in cranberries and extra 1/3 cup oats until evenly distributed.
- I use a small (1 tablespoon) scoop with a lever to drop cookies onto pans lined with parchment paper or a Silpat. Then I use a fork to squash the cookies flat and even out the thickness (about 1/4 inch) before baking for 12 minutes or until bottoms start to brown lightly.
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I grew up in a hippie home during the 70's that had no white sugar, white flour or white rice allowed. So the recent whole grain/whole foods movement hasn't changed much about how I approach food but now I'm looking for a happy medium between the highly processed high starch diet of our modern convenience centered culture and the nuts berries and tofu I grew up around so I can raise my own kids with sound nutritional information but without the deprivation I felt when it seemed like everyone else ate Sugar Pops and Fruit Loops for breakfast except me .
I'm interested in baked goods that are both healthy and tasty.
I think artifical flavors, colors and preservatives are hazzards of our modern lifestyles that should be banished in the name of better health and higher quality food for everyone who needs to eat.