Healthy Honey Oatmeal Cookies

"These are easy to make! and healthy for you too (small amount of butter & sugar), but still so very sweet and wholesome. The cookies are chewy and go great with any other add-ins (raisins, cranberries, chocolate chips, etc.) Courtesy of FoodNetwork.com"
 
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Ready In:
25mins
Ingredients:
10
Yields:
30 cookies
Serves:
10
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ingredients

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directions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a cookie sheet with nonstick cooking spray (just for convenience :]).
  • Using a mixer with the paddle attachment, mix together the butter, brown sugar, honey, egg and water thoroughly.
  • Sift together the dry ingredients then stir in the oats. Add the dry ingredients to the wet and mix. Add any additional ingredients you've chosen.
  • Drop by heaping teaspoonfuls onto the cookie sheet. Bake 12 to 15 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.

Questions & Replies

  1. can I skip the salt?
     
  2. Certainly you are no longer a teenager, but I hope you still log in here....I see from your profile that you are Filipino....any chance you would consider sharing your favorite Pancit recipe? Pretty please?
     
  3. What is temperature for baking in microwave and setting?
     
  4. How long did you bake them?
     
  5. Can the total Nutrition values be found anywhere? I can't seem to locate. Thanks, TAG
     
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Reviews

  1. I liked this recipe! To make them even healthier, I used ground flax seed instead of butter (my blender did a great job of grinding my flaxseed). To substitute, use 3 TBS of ground flaxseed for every TBS of butter. I also substituted 1/4 cup agave nectar for the honey and half the brown sugar (so just 1/4 cup total of agave nectar). So I omitted the honey, and only used 1/4 cup brown sugar. Agave nectar is lower on the glycemic index and does not affect blood sugar levels as much as sugar. It is also very sweet so you can use 1/2 the amount of sugar that a recipe calls for. Also added cinnamon as some suggested-loved the results! I am doing the points plus program for Weight Watchers and three of these cookies equals 4 points! Thanks for the recipe!
     
  2. These cookies are fantastic! I use vanilla yogurt instead of butter, add in flax seed and cinnamon, and cut the sugar and honey in half, and they are still sweet enough. We love cookies but like being healthy, and this recipe allows us to have both. Thanks for a great, easy recipe!
     
  3. Yum! I had a sweet tooth craving at 10pm and I whipped this recipe up quickly - altering it to make it slightly healthier. I baked it as one large rectangle and cut it into muesli bars. I subbed half of the butter for coconut oil. I used stevia instead of brown sugar and halved the amount of honey. (It was still plenty sweet!) I subbed the flour for a wholemeal organic spelt flour. Added chopped almonds, dark chocolate chips, shredded coconut and cranberries. 15 minutes in the oven and it was done! I had trouble resisting eating the whole batch while it was hot.
     
  4. Wow, what a great little recipe! My brothers gobbled these up. I used a bit less salt, like Coolmom suggested, and I added 1/4 t. cinnamon and 1/2 c. each of raisins and chocolate chips. This recipe doesn't take long to make -- it doesn't make very many cookies either, but that's fine, because then there aren't a bunch of leftovers to tempt me. lol. :) Yummy when eaten warm with a glass of cold milk! They got the Picky Sibling Seal of Approval. I only baked them for 12 minutes and they were done. Next time, I think I'll use 1/3 c. of the chips and raisins (1/2 c. almost seemed like too much). Thanks for a super good and relatively healthy recipe to make for my family!
     
  5. This is a really great recipe. I told my husband the name of the recipe before he tried one and he gave me the look that he gives when he hears the word healthy. He was pleasantly surprised! The only changes I made were to add a 1/2 t. each of vanilla and cinnamon and then added about a 1/2 C. dried cranberries. I made the dough up the day before baking. It was really wet, I'm not sure if the cookies would have looked as nice if I had used the dough then. After being the fridge overnight I made nice round uniform cookie balls they baked up. nicely. Another thing I noticed was the texture was better and they seemed to taste better after sitting a while. Thanks for sharing this keeper recipe!
     
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Tweaks

  1. Mmm! These are addicting, Love them! My tweak was the flax ground 3 tablespoons per butter, However, I did only for 2 table spoons of butter which was replaced to 6 table spoons of flax ground. The third table spoon was Smart balance buttery spread, I added pumpkin spice(dash) Vanilla(about a teaspoon) and raisins. I egg(limit the yolk to half). Used half the sugar replaced by Truvia and a bit less on the honey(sugar free), They came out crunchy and chewy, a bit sweet, but that is just me:) Oh, and I baked them flat as sheet instead of balls for extra crunch. Sooo good! I will try all flax ground to replace all butter next time. I also have tried them with tiny bits of apple in them. Yumm!
     
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  2. Yum! I had a sweet tooth craving at 10pm and I whipped this recipe up quickly - altering it to make it slightly healthier. I baked it as one large rectangle and cut it into muesli bars. I subbed half of the butter for coconut oil. I used stevia instead of brown sugar and halved the amount of honey. (It was still plenty sweet!) I subbed the flour for a wholemeal organic spelt flour. Added chopped almonds, dark chocolate chips, shredded coconut and cranberries. 15 minutes in the oven and it was done! I had trouble resisting eating the whole batch while it was hot.
     
  3. I follwed recipe except I shred up a small apple, squeezed out excess juice into bowl woth hands, (to drink, yumm)and added that to wet ingredients along with 1 t cinnamon and vanilla and 1/2 t nutmeg. Then combined! They are a little soft and not crunchy but oh so good!
     
  4. We used coconut sugar instead of brown and simply used all purpose flour.
     
  5. Regular flour worked just fine. Added 1 t vanilla and cinnamon.
     

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I'm in high school. I am ridiculously smart and therefore, I make food with my spare time. My recipes are easy to make and as a health freak, MOST of them are healthy. I am also Filipino, but since most Filipino food aren't healthy, I'll only post the ones that are delicious or reasonably healthy. I AM AN AVID HARRY POTTER SUPPORTER. i can also run a mile in 8:00. I hate it when people do not cap the toothpaste tube.
 
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