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These Healthier Chocolate Chip cookies are my favorite!

When you bake cookies as often as we do, it’s nice to know that you are serving your family (and yourself) a healthier version of your favorite recipe.

Healthier Chocolate Chip Cookie Stack

My favorite tip for cookies:  Make a batch, then freeze the dough.  Then, every day, scoop out & bake just enough for the day.   I will make 4 cookies around 2:00 in the afternoon, so our kids have warm cookies when they come home from school.  They love it!  When they have friends over, I scoop out & bake a lot more (or I just make another batch).

A close up of a woman dunking a chocolate chip cookie into a glass of milk.
These Healthier Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies only have 80 calories per cookie and this cookie is much healthier than most & we love it!  I love to take a big glass of milk & dunk it right in… the kids do the same. Wonder where they learned it?  😉
It doesn’t call for too many ingredients, and they are really simple to make.

HEALTHIER OATMEAL CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Ingredients:

  • 3/4 cup rolled oats
  • 1 cup whole-wheat flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 cup butter, softened
  • 1/4 cup canola oil
  • 1/3 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/3 cup brown sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup chocolate chips (you can add more, but I don’t like them to be too chocolatey)
  • 1 T. wheat germ, if you have it (or flax seed)

A bunch of unbaked cookies on a tray.

Directions:

  • Preheat oven to 350°F
  • Grind oats in a blender or food processor.
  • Add flour, baking soda, and salt.
  • In a separate bowl, beat butter until fluffy.
  • To the butter, add oil, granulated sugar, brown sugar, egg, and vanilla; beat until creamy.
  • Add the dry ingredients, beating on low speed until just combined.
  • Add chocolate chips.

Chocolate chips pouring from a measuring cup.

Our kids love when I add extra chocolate chips to half of the batch…  I make one tray and then add chocolate chips before baking another tray.

A clear glass bowl with chocolate chip cookie ingredients and a wooden spoon.

A close up of a wooden spoon mixing ingredients in a glass bowl.
Next, drop the dough by heaping teaspoonfuls, 1 inch apart, onto the greased baking sheets.

Raw spoonfuls of chocolate chip cookie dough on a cookie pan.

A close up of raw spoonfuls of chocolate chip cookie dough.

Bake the cookies at 350 degrees

A close up of balls of raw chocolate chip cookie dough on a cookie sheet.
You’ll want to bake cookies until firm around the edges and golden on top, about 12-14 minutes.  I keep a close eye on them to be sure that they don’t burn.

I hope that you enjoy that recipe as much as we do.

taking cookies - healthier choc chip cookies
It is just a way that our family bonds in the kitchen, taking turns, learning math and science in our real-life baking experiments.  The kids love the way that the house smells when they come home from school to find a fresh batch of cookies in the oven!

They can pour a cup of milk & dig in.   (Then just try to hide that big bite of c0okie that you just took and smile when your mom asks to take your picture!  

A young boy eating a chocolate chip cookie with a big smile on his face.

Trust me… these cookies are good (and the kids won’t realize that they are made with oatmeal).
They are definitely worth making!

4.75 from 4 votes

Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies

This is my favorite cookie recipe! These Healthy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies only have 80 calories per cookie and this cookie is much healthier than most & we love it!

Ingredients 

  • 3/4 cup rolled oats
  • 1 cup whole-wheat flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 cup butter softened
  • 1/4 cup canola oil
  • 1/3 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/3 cup brown sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup chocolate chips
  • 1 T. wheat germ if you have it (or flax seed)

Instructions 

  • Preheat oven to 350°F.
  • Step #1- Grind oats in a blender or food processor. Add flour, baking soda, and salt.
  • Step #2- In a separate bowl, beat butter until fluffy. To the butter, add oil, granulated sugar, brown sugar, egg, and vanilla; beat until creamy.
  • Add the dry ingredients, beating on low speed until just combined.   Add chocolate chips.
  • Our kids love when I add extra chocolate chips to half of the batch…  I make one tray and then add chocolate chips before baking another tray.
  • Step #3- Drop the dough by heaping teaspoonfuls, 1 inch apart, onto the greased baking sheets.
  • Step #4- Bake cookies until firm around the edges and golden on top, about 12-14 minutes

Nutrition

Serving: 1cookie, Calories: 80kcal

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

Additional Info

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Hi there!

I’m Becky, a former elementary school teacher turned certified child development therapist and blogger. I work at home with my husband and together we are raising (and partially homeschooling) our four children in the Carolinas. I love diet coke, ice cream, and spending time with my family.

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24 Comments

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  2. Thanks for the good recipe, I am always looking for healthy and tasty cookies to serve in the shop.

  3. We made these yesterday and they are delicious! I also wanted to say how much I enjoy reading your blog 🙂

    1. Aww, thanks, Anna! Aren’t they good? I can’t stop eating them, but with 4 kids… no one has to know that its me eating the majority of them! haha!!

    1. I’m not sure- I don’t want to tell you the wrong thing. sorry!! Good luck. 🙂

  4. These look yummy! Can you tell me how many cookies one batch usually makes? Thanks!

    1. They are SO good, but I normally double my recipe to get enough for my family of 6. The regular batch only makes about two dozen, I’d say.

    1. I’ve never tried-but if you do, let me know how they turn out. 🙂

  5. I am making these and just going to add the chocolate chips. But my mix is very dry and crumbly. What did I do wrong?

    1. I probably have at some point, simply because I’m sure that I forgot. 🙂 I’m sure it would be fine either way.

  6. 5 stars
    I make a cookie like this all the time, but leave out the brown sugar and use flaxseed. My husband loves them. He warned my grandson, who was eating alot of them…you’re not used to all that fiber!