I like cookies. I like cookies a lot.
I don’t bake cookies a lot…’cause I’d eat them a lot.
My sister sent me a recipe a few weeks ago. Cookies that she has created.
Wait for it…
HEALTHY. Cookies.
You heard it here first, folks.
Get out a couple of your mixing bowls. And make sure one of them is big, there’s a lot of healthy ingredients in this cookie! Now, lets do this thing!
How to make Kimmy Sue Cookies: Printable
In your first mixing bowl, combine all of these dry ingredients:
- 2 1/2 cup wheat flour (un-bleached)
- 1 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
In your second mixing bowl, combine these together and stir together very well:
- 1 stick real butter, unsalted and melted
- 1 cup brown sugar (packed)
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 cup Greek yogurt
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
Make sure the mixture is very well stirred, then add:
- 1 cup raisins
- 1 cup dried cranberries
- 1 cup oatmeal
- 1 cup walnuts or nut of your choice, finely chopped
- 1 cup dark chocolate chips
- 1 cup green zucchini, grated
- 1 cup yellow zucchini, grated
- 1 cup carrots, grated
Mix together very well.
Slowly add the dry ingredients from the first bowl to the ingredients in the second bowl, about a cup at a time. Mix thoroughly before adding next cup, until all the dry ingredients are incorporated.
Place rounded by teaspoons onto greased cookie sheet about 2 inches apart. Bake on lightly sprayed cookie sheets at 375°F for 10-12 minutes.
This recipe is adaptable, you can exchange ingredients. For example, chocolate chips can be changed to cherry chips or the nuts can be almonds.
*WARNING* Once you start eating these, you will find it difficult to quit cold-turkey. I highly suggest a double batch, to combat those cravings.
Rachel blogs at The Henway.
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JerseyMom says:
Oh man! Those sound AWESOME….and healthy is a bonus. Gonna have to make these!!
On April 25, 2012 at 10:11 am
littlebird says:
These are awesome! They taste almost like Clif bars!
On April 25, 2012 at 10:41 am
STH says:
These sound great, and it just so happens that my boyfriend took the last of our cookies in his lunch today. I think I’m going to have to make these right away!
Thank you for this, Rachel!
On April 25, 2012 at 12:05 pm
AnnieB says:
Definitely want to make these! Rachel, when you say “wheat flour” do you mean whole wheat?
On April 25, 2012 at 1:09 pm
Rachel says:
@AnnieB I use unbleached flour but it was not whole wheat. I think if youre familiar with substituting whole wheat and understand the differences in leavening and moisture then you could try it with whole wheat. I just specified “wheat” because I’ve been reading so many posts lately on blogs using all kinds of different flours.
On April 25, 2012 at 1:23 pm
Rachel says:
P.S. I inputted the recipe into CalorieCount.com and found that each cookies is roughly 80is calories. But they are GOOD calories!
On April 25, 2012 at 1:24 pm
STH says:
Made them this morning, and I used 1 cup white flour and 1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour. They were good! The dough was pretty hard to mix with all those add-ins, so I used my hands at the end. The recipe made a big batch, so I froze about half for the next cookie emergency.
I think next time I’ll double the spices as I like things spicy, but they were very good as is. And I bet you could chop up the zuke and carrots in the food processor and veg-phobic kids wouldn’t know they were eating healthy.
On April 25, 2012 at 5:04 pm
AnnieB says:
Thank you Rachel, and STH, for the info on the flour. Looking forward to trying them!
On April 26, 2012 at 4:32 pm