Granola Cookies
A friend stopped by for coffee and tucked into these yesterday and was truly amazed at how good they were. Apparently she had bad experiences with oatmeal cookies and couldn't get them to come out right. My secret is using my own granola instead of rolled oats. It adds a bit of texture and crunch and has all sorts of healthy goodies tucked in like flax seed and wheat germ..
Granola Cookies
1 cup butter or margarine
2/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 eggs
2 cups flour
3 cups granola
1 cup chocolate or carob chips
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Cream together the sugars and the butter. Add eggs. Use mixer to add in flour and baking soda. Stir in granola.Stir in the chocolate chips.
Drop by heaping tablespoon onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 for about 11 minutes until lightly browned. Everyone's oven is different so start peeking on the first sheet at 10 minutes.
I get 30 cookies form this recipe.
You can substitute granola cereal if you don't have any homemade granola around. Chocolate chips can be swapped out for dried cranberries or raisins as well.( I've used chopped dried apricots, too)
I keep a batch of dough in my freezer, shaped into logs and wrapped in wax paper to bake off in cookie emergencies.
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