Sweet Tea… in Italia!

Italy, Amazing Food, Love and Wine Y'all!

So, After all the Christmas Decorating… I got in the mood for something sweet.  Add a few Irish coffees and a Brilliant Idea… and I wanted cookies..

So, I was thinking about the normal recipe I use and Started thinking about how the butter wasn’t soft and I didn’t want to use lard… and blah blah blah.. so I got to looking around and found a recipe by someone named Chelsea’s Messy Apron.

And I figured I would give it a whirl..  I changed a couple of things.. but,  here is what I did….

Ingredients
3/4 cup oat flour regular oats blended in a blender
3/4 cup old-fashioned oats
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Pinch of salt
1 and 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 large egg
4 tablespoons brown sugar lightly packed
1/2 cup coconut oil
1/2 cup dark chocolate chips

Instructions

Put the 3/4 cup of Oats and made flour in the nutribullet.
In a medium-sized bowl, stir together the oat flour, old-fashioned oats, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt.
In another bowl, stir together the vanilla extract, large egg, and brown sugar.
Melt the coconut oil and let it cool slightly before adding to the bowl. I put it in a measuring cup and melted it in 30 second intervals in the microwave.

Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and stir until just combined. Fold in the dark chocolate chips.

Cover the dough tightly and chill the dough for 30 minutes to an hour or until the dough has hardened enough to scoop out cookie balls.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Using a cookie scoop (and pack these in the scoop very tightly or they may crumble), scoop out balls of the dough onto a parchment lined cookie sheet.

Depending on the size, bake for 7-9 minutes or until very lightly browned around the edges.

They may look a little underdone in the center, but they are the very best slightly under-baked and they will harden after cooling.

Remove from the oven and allow to stay on the baking sheet for another 2 minutes before removing to a wire cooling rack.

These things are awesome.. I  mean simply awesome…I cannot tell the difference between the oatmeal cookies using the butter, and sugars and flour….
I love these!

http://www.notsosweettea.com/recipes/dessert/healthyoatmealcookies.html