The Ultimate Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookie

Ingredients

Wet

• 3/4 cup unsweetened apple sauce

• 1/2 stick butter (we use salted butter)

• 3/4 cup raw honey (pick up at your local health food store, substitute regular honey if that

is all you have)

• 2 tsp. pure vanilla extract (I advise against using imitation vanilla)

• 1 egg

• 1 egg white

Dry

• 1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour

• 1 cup whole grain rolled oats (I do not use quick oats, so I roughly chop these oats in my

food processors before adding to other ingredients)

• 1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg

• 1/4 tsp. cinnamon

• 1 tsp. baking soda

• 1 tsp. fine sea salt

Finishing touches

• 12 oz. package of Ghirardelli 60% Cacao Bittersweet Chocolate Chips

• 1/2 cup chopped walnuts

• 1/2 cup chopped craisins (a.k.a. dried cranberries)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Now just mix and bake them like a batch of normal chocolate chip

cookies. In a mixing bowl, combine all the wet ingredients (I partially soften the butter in the

microwave, just be careful not to melt it too much). Stir them together with a spoon. In a

separate bowl, combine the dry ingredients. Now carefully stir in the dry ingredients in with the

wet. Now stir in the finishing touches.

Place cookies on baking sheet and bake at 350 for 10 - 14 minutes (Betsy & I do 12 minutes),

depending on your oven and how well done you like your cookies. Enjoy fresh out of the oven,

or frozen then warmed in the microwave for 20 seconds.

Alternate/additional finishing touches (add whatever you have a taste for here and substitute it

for the finishing touches above, here are some ideas for additional )

• 1/2 cup pureed banana (In our next batch we will use this in place of chopped craisins to

switch up the taste)• 1/2 cup shredded coconut• 1 cup Rice Krispies• 1/2 cup chopped raisins

**Remember…these cookies freeze well, can be eaten as a breakfast meal and are a great healthy treat for any time of day