Recipe of the Week - Whole Grain Cookies

New-Fashioned Whole Grain Cookies

 

Recipe By: Laura Thomas MEd, RD, LD

 

Ingredients

3¼ cups flour
1½ teaspoons baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
4 cups 5-grain cereal, uncooked
½ cup butter
⅓ cup canola oil
½ cup unsweetened applesauce
⅓ cup sugar
⅓ cup packed brown sugar
1 cup liquid egg substitute
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 cup raisins
½ cup chocolate chips
1 cup sweetened dried cranberries

 

 

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375°F. Combine the flour, baking soda, salt, and cereal; set aside.
2. In a large mixing bowl, beat together the butter, oil, applesauce, sugars, egg substitute, and vanilla until smooth. Slowly beat the flour mixture into the wet mixture. Stir in the raisin chocolate chips, and cranberries.
3. Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls onto an ungreased cookie. sheet. Bake for 9 to 10 minutes or until golden brown but still soft to the touch.

Check out the Nutrition Facts here.

Nutrition Tips

Cooking Tip

Freeze tablespoon-size dollops of cookie dough unbaked. Store in an airtight container in the freezer. To bake a tray of fresh cookies, just place pieces of the frozen dough on a baking tray and allow them to thaw for about 15 minutes. Then bake according to the recipe directions. Baking time may vary; adjust as necessary.


Shopping Tip

Five-grain cereal mix can be found in the cooked cereal section of most grocery stores. You can also choose 10-grain or 12-grain cereal.


Serving Suggestions

Eat them for breakfast. Or, for a tasty, nutritious after-school snack, serve these cookies with a glass of milk. Together the milk and cookies provide energy, protein, calcium, iron, B-vitamins, fiber, and other vitamins and minerals active growing kids need.