Since this past Fall I have become SUPER excited about cooking and baking in general ~ I received a swaaeeet Kitchen Aid Stand Mixer for Christmas (thanks Mom:D ) and recently also purchased a really nice Hamilton Beach Food Processor (thanks post xmas sales at Canadian Tire:D ) ~ needless to say I have been whipping up a storm of yummies in my kitchen. I love creating and changing recipes to suite the needs of my little family ~ my husband and I have always been super into organic and local ~ always keeping in mind that what you put into your body is simply fuel. Since having my daughter (almost 2!) and another baby recently (almost 5 months!) I have discovered a new passion for making sure what we are eating is good for us. I would never want my daughter to run on processed food and we are so lucky to have a great market in our town which sells mostly organic, natural and local foods (thank you Nature's Fare<3). We have been buying these yummy organic cookies and I figured I might as well try my hand at a few recipes to see what I can come up with. After doing a bunch of research I found a good base recipe that I have altered to fit our family. These are the yummiest Oatmeal Chocolate Chip cookies that I have ever had and I hope you enjoy them too!
Here's the ingredients you'll need to make some magic happen(I included the brand in italics ~ if I write NF it just stands for Nature's Fare organic brand):
1/2 cup Coconut Oil (Omega Nutrition)
1/2 cup organic Peanut Butter Smooth or Chunky (New World Natural Foods)
1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour (Sunny Boy)
1 1/2 cups DARK brown sugar (NF)
3/4 cup rolled oats(NF)
1/4 cup oat bran(NF)
4 tbsp Vanilla Almond Milk (Earth's Own Almond Fresh)
2 teaspoons Vanilla extract (Frontier Vanilla Extract Fair Trade)
1 tbsp corn starch (NF)
1 tbsp Raw Coconut Vinegar (Coconut Secret)
1 teaspoon baking powder (NF)
1 teaspoon baking soda (NF)
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1 tbsp Golden Flax Meal~ground (NF)
1 tbsp Hemp Seeds~"hearts" (Manitoba Harvest)
3/4 cup chocolate chips~dark bittersweet 71% + cocoa (Cuisine Camino Fair Trade Chocolate)
OPTIONS: to make gluten free use brown rice flour, apple cider vinegar instead of raw coconut vinegar though raw coconut is proven to be a healthier alternative, to add omega oils you can add 1 tbsp of Vega Antioxidant Omega Oil Blend :)
HOW TO:
1. Heat oven to 350F
2. In a bowl combine peanut butter, coconut oil, sugar and vanilla extract (I used my stand mixer but this could easily be mixed by hand)
3. In another bowl combine flax seed, almond milk, corn starch and raw coconut vinegar. Stir it up then pour into bowl with peanut butter mixture. Mix it up!
4. Can use the same clean dry ingredient bowl used for step 3 and mix flour, rolled oats, oat bran, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and hemp hearts. Mix it up by hand!
5. Take wet ingredients bowl from stand mixer (if you used one) and stir in dry ingredients. Then add your chocolate chips and mix it up:)
6. Use parchment paper on a cookie sheet. I like to swipe a tiny little fingerprint of oil in each corner for my parchment paper to stick too.
7. Roll up cookie dough balls (1 inch diameter) and place on cookie sheet about an inch apart. Bake for 12 minutes (this is about the perfect time for the cookie to be soft on the inside and just the perfect crunchiness on the outside)
8. Cool for 5-10 minutes
9. Enjoy a warm cookie with a cold glass of vanilla Hemp Bliss milk! :D
10. Leave the kitchen so you don't eat them all!
In the picture above I had also packed some cookie dough into a heart shaped silicone muffin cup ~ it turned out great ~ maybe an idea for Valentine's Day <3
Enjoy!
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