A Healthy Twist on Chocolate Chip Cookies

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).

Lemon Jello (Sharon)

1 large pkg cooked lemon pudding (follow pkg instructions)
1 lg pkg jello (any flavor, whatever color you want jello to be)-follow pkg
Mix the above together on ghigh speed for 1 min. Refridgerate in 9 x 13 dish. When set up add topping.

Topping:
1 sm pkg instant lemon pudding
1 cup milk
1 pt whipping cream or cool whip
mix spread & garnish with lemon zest

Apple Pie Caramel Apples

Ingredients:
4 Granny Smith Apples
Package of caramels
Package of white morsel chips
Cinnamon sugar
Popsicle sticks

Directions:
Wash apples and dry thoroughly. Insert Popsicle stick into the top of each apple. Unwrap caramels and place in a microwave safe dish. Add 1 TBSP of water. Heat in microwave for one minute and then stir. If not completely melted warm for another 15 seconds then stir. Continue until caramel is melted. Spoon caramel mixture onto the apples, one at a time. Scrape excess caramel off of bottom. Place on a greased(spray w/pam) cookie sheet. Place in fridge for 30 minutes to an hour. Warm morsels in microwave for 1 minute stir. Add ½ to 1 TBSP on vegetable oil. If not melted warm 15 more seconds stir, continue until melted. Spoon white chocolate mixture over cooled caramel apples. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar. Place on cookie sheet and refrigerate. Keep refrigerated until 15 minutes before serving. Slice or enjoy on stick and enjoy!

Fruit Pizza (Sharon)

Ingredients:

Sugar cookie dough (1/2 a recipe or ½ a package of the refrigerated)
Small package of Vanilla or French Vanilla pudding
Milk
½ a carton Cool whip
Fruit (kiwi, strawberries, grapes, other berries)

Directions:
Lightly spray a pie dish with cooking spray. Then press sugar cookie dough into bottom and up a little on the sides. Make sure it is very thin, because it will rise as it bakes. Bake according to sugar cookie instructions, may need to cook a little longer until it starts to brown a little on top. Cool. When cooled whip up pudding according to directions. When starts to thicken whip in cool whip. Spread mixture on top of the cookie crust. Now decorate with your fruit. Enjoy!

Healthy, Low-fat, Low-carb, yummy cookies

Oatmeal and Raisin Cookies

Ingredients:
¼ cup brown Sugar
¼ cup white Sugar
¾ cup natural unsweetened applesauce
1 tsp vanilla
3/4 cup sifted all purpose flour
¼ cup wheat flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon cinnamon
dash of nutmeg
1 cup rolled oats
½ cup seedless raisins

Directions:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Mix together sugars and applesauce and vanilla. Then mix in the flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg. When combined, add oats and raisins. Stir until combined. On a lightly greased cookie sheet, drop dough by spoonfuls. Bake in a 375 degree oven for 10 minutes.

Low fat Pumpkin Cookies

1 cup canned pumpkin
1 cup brown sugar (could use less)
1/3 cup applesauce
3 cups oats
1 ½ cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
½ tsp nutmeg
½ tsp ginger ½ tsp cinnamon

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a cookie sheet with cooking oil. Mix together the pumpkin, sugar, and applesauce. In a separate bowl, combine the remaining ingredients, then add to the pumpkin and mix well. Drop by spoonfuls onto a baking sheet. Bake for 13-15 minutes.