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Kinda Healthy Banana Oatmeal Cookies

I got this recipe from a sparkpeople email I received today. I signed up for sparkpeople a while ago and have done nothing with it but saved a few recipes. I was in the mood to bake a little tonight but didn’t want to have a ton of cookies laying around calling my name all weekend either!
The recipe said 24 servings and I made exactly 24 small cookies. I think they’re good, but they do taste kinda healthy.

Ingredients
3/4 c flour (recipe calls for unbleached, I used all-purpose)
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground allspice
1 c quick cooking oats
1/3 c raisins (I omitted)
1/4 c chopped walnuts (I omitted)
1 large egg white
3 tbsp butter, cut in 1/2 in pieces
1/2 c packed dark brown sugar
1 small banana, cut in 1 in pieces
1 tsp vanilla

Directions
Set baking racks in top and lower third of the oven. Preheat oven to 400.
Whisk together flour, salt, baking soda, cinnamon, and allspice in mixing bowl. Mix in oats, raisins and nuts.
In a blender on medium speed, mix egg white, butter, and sugar until smooth. Blend in banana and vanilla until smooth. Pour banana mixture into dry ingredient bowl, mixing with spatula until well combined. Batter will be fairly stiff.
Drop batter in walnut sized spoonfuls onto baking sheets, spacing cookies about 2 in apart. Flatten them slightly with the back of a wet spoon, wetting spoon frequently between cookies.
Bake 10 mins. Switch position of pans in oven. Bake for additional 5-8 mins (5 mins was more than plenty for in my oven) or until cookies are golden brown and almost firm in the center. Transfer to cool racks. Can be stored in airtight container for up to 1 week.

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White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies

I found this recipe online about a year ago, saved it, but now can’t remember where I found it. I’m making cookies for a sorority alum cookie exchange that’s tomorrow night. Thought I’d share the recipe. Seems yummy from my taste of the dough! I’ll post pics later. I doubled the original recipe to make approximately 5 dozen fairly large cookies.
Ingredients
5 c flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking soda
1 c butter, softened
2 2/3 c sugar
4 large eggs
3 c white chocolate morsels
2 (6 oz) packages of sweetened dried cranberries

Directions
Combine flour and next 3 ingredients; set aside.
Beat butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy; gradually add sugar, beating well. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating until blended after each addition.
Add flour mixture to butter mixture gradually, beating at low speed until blended. Stir in white chocolate morsels and cranberries.
Drop cookie dough by heaping tablespoonfuls onto lightly greased baking sheets.
Bake at 350 for 10-14 mins or until lightly browned on bottom (closer to 15 in my oven). Remove to wire racks to completely cool. Enjoy!

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Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

I made these last year around the holidays and they were a hit. I decided to make these for the cookie exchange/tacky sweater party I’m going to tonight. I’d thought I posted this last year, but since I didn’t here goes. I doubled the original recipe.
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies (from northpole.com)
Ingredients
3 c canned pumpkin
3 c white sugar
4 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 c veg oil
6 c flour
3 tsp milk
6 tsp baking powder
3 tsp baking soda
2 packages chocolate chips
2 tsp salt
Directions
Mix ingredients in above order. Bake at 350 for 10-12 mins on a greased pan. Enjoy!

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Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies

Today I baked the pumpkin chocolate chip bread and oreo brownies for a sorority alum book club that’ll be at our house tomorrow. The State game isn’t on TV so I baked instead!
I haven’t made these yet, but they sound good so I’ll probably try them out and share pictures of them in the next week or so. I found these recipe on Recipezaar.com. I was planning on omitting the raisins (not a fan) but I thought I’d post it as it was online then edit it after I make it for any changes. The recipe’s supposed to make 108 cookies so I might try to scale down the recipe so it doesn’t make so many.
Ingredients
1 c butter or margarine
2 c sugar
3 eggs
1/2 c peanut butter
3 1/2 c oats
1 c flour
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 c raisins
Directions
Cream butter; gradually add sugar, beat well.
Add eggs and peanut butter, beat well.
Combine oats, flour, soda, salt & cinnamon; add in creamed mixture and beat well.
Stir in raisins.
Drop dough by heaping teaspoonfuls onto lightly greased cookie sheets.
Bake at 350F for 10-11 minutes.
Cool slightly on cookie sheets; remove to wire racks.

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Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies

I was looking for a cookie recipe to take to a Chi O recruitment alum/active event tomorrow night & for tailgating Saturday. I thought I’d go with a “basic” recipe since Jason wasn’t a huge fan of my apple/oatmeal/choc chip cookies. I found this in a coworker’s Oxford Baptist Church recipe book but it was also on the back of the semi-sweet chips I used.

Ingredients
2 c + 4 Tbsp four
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 c butter
3/4 c sugar
3/4 c brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp water
2 eggs
12 oz chocolate chips (I used more like 6 oz b/c I’d used the other 6 oz on the cookies last week & I’m not a huge chocolate fan)

Directions
Sift together flour, baking soda & salt; set aside. Combine butter, sugar, brown sugar, vanilla & water. Beat until creamy. Beat in eggs one at a time. Add four mixture & mix well. Stir in chocolate chips. Drop by 1/2 spoonful onto greased cookie sheets. Bake at 375 degrees for 9-11 minutes.