Healthy Cookies?

 I may or may not be addicted to sugar. It's kind of a problem...no seriously. Case in point: once in college I ate an entire cake my friend Katie made over the course of 2 days. In my defense, I thought  my roommates were "helping" the cake disappear along with me, but when I commented that everyone must have loved it as much as I did, I was met with the response that I was, indeed, the only person who had touched that cake. Yikes.
All that to say, I like dessert, but I also try to be healthy. Nothing too drastic; I'm not about to cut cheese out of my diet or swear off chocolate or anything that insane, but having a baby makes you first of all evaluate everything that goes into your body while you are pregnant and then everything that goes into your child. Therefore, I'm trying to reinvent some recipes I love to make them healthy too.

I love that little face peeking out in the background!

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Ingredients:

• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• 1 Tbsp of flax seed (found in organic section of the grocery by the seeds and nuts)
• 1/4 cup of wheat bran (found in the organic section of the grocery by bread mixes/flour)
• 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
• sprinkle of salt
• 1/4 cup of honey
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 Tbsp of corn syrup (optional but helps hold it all together)
• 3 to 4 Tbsp melted butter
• 1/2 cup unsweetened apple sauce
• 1/4 cup of pumpkin butter OR apple butter
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 cups oats
• 1/2 cup raisins or dried cranberries
• 1/2 cup chocolate chips (optional, but let's remember that chocolate makes everything better)

Wow that looks like a lot of ingredients but I tried to replace the  massive amounts of butter and sugar that most recipes call for with healthy stuff. They are very filling because of all that too!

--Mix dry ingredients together and then stir in all the rest. Mix in the raisins and chocolate chips last. --Drop by teaspoon onto a lightly greased cookie sheet and bake for 9-10 minutes at 350.  Enjoy!