oatmeal cookies

The other day I was at my local health food store and I bought a bag of gluten free rolled oats with the idea of making oatmeal cookies. So today I decided I really wanted those cookies so I searched for a recipe and came across this one on the Bob's Red Mill site. I have to say the cookies are quite delicious; everyone in my family likes them. I did make a few modifications to make them diet friendly for everyone (replaced butter with applesauce, maple syrup for brown sugar and maple sugar for granulated sugar. I also added about a cup of buckwheat flower because the batter was kind of runny after replacing dry ingredients with wet ones).

Here is the recipe exactly as I found it on the website:

Ingredients

* 1-1/2 cups Gluten Free All Purpose Baking Flour
* 3 cups Gluten Free Rolled Oats
* 1 cup Butter (softened)
* 1 cup Brown Sugar
* 1/2 cup Granulated Sugar
* 1 tsp Vanilla
* 1 tsp Baking Soda
* 1/2 tsp Sea Salt
* 1 tsp Cinnamon
* 2 large Eggs*
* 1 tsp Xanthan Gum
* 1 cup Raisins (Unsulfured)

Directions

Preheat oven to 350°F. Beat butter and sugars together until smooth. Add vanilla and eggs; beat well. In a separate bowl, blend flour, cinnamon, baking soda, salt and Xanthan Gum. Stir flour blend into wet ingredients. Add oats and raisins and mix well. Drop rounded tablespoons of dough onto un-greased cookie sheet. Bake for 10 – 12 minutes, or until golden brown. Cool one minutes then transfer to wire rack. Makes about 4 dozen cookies.

*Eggless Option: Mix together 2 Tb. Flaxseed Meal with 6 Tb. of water and let sit for a minute. Add to recipe as you would the eggs.

NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION

Serving Size: 1 Cookie - Calories 100, Calories from Fat 40, Total Fat 4.5g, Saturated Fat 2.5g, Cholesterol 20mg, Sodium 50mg, Total Carbohydrate 15g, Dietray Fiber less than 1g, Sugars 9g, Protein 2g.

apple cinnamon oatmeal cookies reprise

I felt like baking cookies today and decided to re-try the ones I made a while ago. I looked up a recipe for oatmeal cookies and then adapted it and made some changes. They turned out much better than last time.

Dry Ingredients:
1/2 cup oat four
1/4 cup rice flour
1/2 cup rye flour
1 cup oats
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 Tbsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg (optional)

Wet Ingredients:
1/4 to 1/2 cup agave nectar, depending on how sweet you want them(you can also use honey)
1 cup applesauce (or 1/2 cup oil)
1 Tbsp molasses
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 egg

feel free to add raisins or nuts

Preparation:
Mix dry ingredients in one bowl and the wet in another. Mix the wet into the dry ingredients. Spoon onto a greased cookie sheet and bake at 325 for about 20 min.

Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies

I really felt like baking cookies today but I couldn't find a recipe that I like and had all the ingredients for so I made one up. I've done this one time before and they turned out really well. The first batch is in the oven now and I can't wait to taste them. If the first batch is good then I'll bake the rest and if not I'll try to add some things to make it better. I just gathered a bunch of ingredients that I thought would go together along with ingredients I knew needed to be in cookies, put the dry ingredients in one bowl and wet ingredients in the other bowl then mixed them. I wrote down the recipe as a went. Their may be tweaks to it after I taste the first batch.
Oooooo the timer is going off....time to go test them. Boy do they smell good!

The first batch didn't turn out how I had anticipated. They tasted more like bread than cookies, which satisfied my craving for bread but wasn't what I was going for. I'm going to add some more apple sauce and some mochiko flour for sweetness and maybe some more cinnamon. I'll see how batch two turns out.

Well...I didn't get the the second batch today but I'll try for it on Sunday since I'm gone all day tomorrow. When I have perfected the recipe I'll post it.