Saturday, October 3, 2009

Healthy Cookies?!?

As close as you can get, anyway...



They're also gluten-free, and Ellie had no problem downing several. Maybe I should've done this for her birthday :)

1/4 c butter, softened
3/4 c. packed brown sugar
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/8 tsp. salt
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
2/3 c. GF flour
2/3 c. rolled oats
1/4 c. flax seed meal
1/4 c. unsweetened cocoa powder
3 oz. dark or sweet baking chocolate, chopped (I used choc. chips)
1/3 c. flaked coconut
1/3 c. chopped pecans (I left these out, but I always leave nuts out)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large mixing bowl beat butter with an electric mixer for 30 seconds. Add brown sugar, baking soda, and salt. Beat until well combined. Beat in egg and vanilla until combined. Beat in flour. Stir in rolled oats, flax seed meal, and cocoa powder. Stir in chopped chocolate, coconut, and chopped nuts (dough will be thick).
Drop dough by rounded teaspoons 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheets. If desired, sprinkle tops with additional chopped pecans and flaked coconut. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until edges are just firm and tops are set. Let cookies cool on cookie sheet for 1 minute. Transfer cookies to wire racks to cool. Makes about 35 cookies.

Each cookie: 84 calories, 4 g. fat

3 comments:

Mrs. Miller said...

YUM!!! Can't wait to try these!!!
What gf flour did you use?

Anna said...

Bob's Red Mill. That's what I use in waffles, too, and it sort of works for those...

Mrs. Miller said...

made these cookies yesterday. They are A M A Z I N G!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!