These are some really yummy cookies! Best thing is I've made them a little more healthy! My favorite thing lately is to modify recipes to make them more healthy. A great way to do this is by substitution. When a recipe calls for shortening or butter you can substitute applesauce (this recipe I did half shortening and half applesauce). When it calls for all purpose flour, do half all purpose and half wheat. Another thing is you can usually cut some of the sugar out and still be fine with thing still being sweet, I also like using brown sugar rather than white. Just experiment, sometimes thing won't turn out, but most of the time you'll find you like the healthier version better.
Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Ingredients:
1/4 cup shortening (no tans fat)
1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup white sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 egg
Mix the above ingredients together. Then add:
1/4 and 2 TBSP wheat flour
1/2 cup all purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 to 1/2 tsp cinnamon
Mix well then add:
1 cup Quick Oats
Mix then stir in:
1 cup of chocolate chips (if you would like you could do 1/2 cup chocolate chips and 1/2 cup white, peanut butter flavor, or butterscotch chips, or you could do raisins)
On a lightly sprayed cookie sheet place large spoonful of cookie dough and flatten out slightly with back of spoon. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes. Makes 1 and 1/2 to 2 doz cookies (depends on size you make them).