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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.
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).
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)
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.
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.
Next, drop the dough by heaping teaspoonfuls, 1 inch apart, onto the greased baking sheets.
Bake the cookies at 350 degrees
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.
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! ♥)
Trust me… these cookies are good (and the kids won’t realize that they are made with oatmeal).
They are definitely worth making!
Healthy 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
- 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
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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I made these today. They are great. Thanks for the recipe.
We love them,too! 🙂
Thanks for the good recipe, I am always looking for healthy and tasty cookies to serve in the shop.
You are so welcome!
We made these yesterday and they are delicious! I also wanted to say how much I enjoy reading your blog 🙂
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!!
If I wanna not use butter how much oil would I substitute for the butter
I’m not sure- I don’t want to tell you the wrong thing. sorry!! Good luck. 🙂
These look yummy! Can you tell me how many cookies one batch usually makes? Thanks!
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.
Could you substitute banana and apple sauce for the oil and butter?
I’ve never tried-but if you do, let me know how they turn out. 🙂
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?
I’m not sure? Sorry!!
What is 1 T. Of wheat germ. Is that 1 tablespoon or 1 teaspoon?
Tablespoon
Have you ever tried this recipe without grinding up the oats?
I probably have at some point, simply because I’m sure that I forgot. 🙂 I’m sure it would be fine either way.
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!