Oatmeal Raisin Applesauce Cookies

"Modified from a recipe from lifescript.com"
 
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Ready In:
22mins
Ingredients:
12
Yields:
24 cookies
Serves:
4
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ingredients

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directions

  • Heat the oven to 375°F Lightly grease cooking sheet.
  • In a large bowl combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
  • In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream the butter and both sugars together. Beat until smooth, about 1 minute. Add the applesauce, egg and vanilla and mix until blended about 2 minutes. Add the flour to the applesauce mixture and mix well. Remove the bowl from the mixer and stir in the oats and raisins.
  • Drop rounded teaspoonfuls onto the prepared baking sheets about two inches apart.
  • Bake until slightly golden, about 10 to 12 minutes.
  • Remove the baking sheets from the oven and cool on wire racks for 5 minutes. Remove the cookies and cool completely.

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Reviews

  1. Calling these cookies is a little generous, they taste more like an oat muffin to me. However,considering these are meant to be more healty, you can't compare to a normal oatmeal cookie. They are good for what they are but I have some suggestions that I learned from making them. They will not spread at all like a normal cookie, so I would recommend flattening them before baking. Whatever shape you put in the oven is what they will come out looking like. I added walnuts and a raisin assortment which was nice. After the first batch I added cinnamon to the batter because I thought it was a bit bland. They recipes is forgiving and if you like spices I think allspice, nutmeg, and cinnamon would work nicely. I made this for my boyfriend who doesn't like sweets so I cut the sugar in half which was still good but may also be contributing to why this is tasting like a muffin. They baked for about 8 minutes in my oven.
     
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  2. These were good and easy. I used dried cherries because that is what I had. They baked for 8 minutes in my oven.
     
  3. Great cookie! We did some substitutions, though: we used all purpose flour, and used craisins in place of the raisins. Absolutely fabulous! We will make this again - especially for the ones that don't like chocolate (GASP!). We doubled it and it made 27 3-inch cookies. Very fluffy, too (which is perfect for this type of cookie, where I usually don't like cake-like cookies).
     
  4. 5 stars for adaptability and chewy goodness! I actually started off making applesauce low fat brownies and then realized I was out of cocoa midway through! Luckily, I found your recipe which was quite similar. Since I already had 3/4 cup applesauce in my mixture I just kept adding oats until it started sticking, then, because they still weren't sticking very well and I didn't want to keep adding more oats, I stirred in about 1/4 cup natural peanut butter. They turned out fantastic! 10 min. was perfect in my oven and I had 26 large cookies. Also, don't be fooled by the higher fat/calorie content listed. That's for four servings, meaning you'd be eating six cookies (though, let's be honest, that does seem quite accurate, now doesn't it?) ;)
     
  5. These cookies are fabulous! I doubled the recipe, reduced the sugar by one quarter and added a little molasses for flavor. Wow!!!! Thanks
     
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  1. Great cookie! We did some substitutions, though: we used all purpose flour, and used craisins in place of the raisins. Absolutely fabulous! We will make this again - especially for the ones that don't like chocolate (GASP!). We doubled it and it made 27 3-inch cookies. Very fluffy, too (which is perfect for this type of cookie, where I usually don't like cake-like cookies).
     

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