Cookies!

Cooking is something I have always loved doing. Ever since I was a kid I would grab ingredients off the shelf and spend hours with my younger brother creating, what we considered at the time, masterpieces. Now that we are grown, my parents have informed us that our concoctions were not as delicious, or even as edible, as we saw them to be in our child-minds. However, years of practice have allowed me to hone my skill and although I still have a long way to go, I have to say that I can make some pretty delicious food. I tend to put things together that sound good to me and luckily, most of the time, my efforts end in a delicious pay off. I'm far from perfect though so I have had my fair share of disastrous attempts.

My most recent creation is something I like to call, Sweet Caroline's Relatively Healthy Coconut Heath Bar Oatmeal Cookies! The name is quite a mouthful but at least it is a tasty mouthful. The recipe is "relatively healthy" because I've substituted coconut oil for butter. They are however loaded with heath bar crumbles and brown sugar...I figure a cookie is a cookie and if it happens to be a little bit healthier then great...Everyone needs to live a little and for me (the princess of butter...yes I could rival Paula Dean but I wouldn't dare) this is about as healthy as I get when it comes to desserts.

This recipe yields approximately 15 cookies

 

What You Need:

3/4 cups packed brown sugar

1/2  cup coconut oil

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

1 egg white

1 cup quick-cooking oats

3/4 cups Gold Medal® all-purpose or unbleached flour

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/8 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup heath bar crumbles  

1/2 cup shredded coconut 

What You Do: 

 Heat oven to 345°F. 

 In large bowl, stir brown sugar and coconut oil until blended. Stir in vanilla and egg. Stir in oats, flour, baking soda and salt; stir in heath bar crumbles and coconut.

 Onto un-greased cookie sheet, drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls about 2 inches apart. 

 Bake approx. 10 to 12 minutes or until golden brown. Cool slightly; remove from cookie sheet to wire rack (or onto some wax paper)

 Feel free to drizzle some melted semi-sweet chocolate on your cookies for a little added punch!