Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

I finished finals! Thank God! Hallelujah! I am home for a whole MONTH! There are so many exciting and fun things happening over break, so I will be sure to post about them as they happen. One of my favorite things to do when I get home is to bake. My guilty pleasure/stress reliever at school is to peruse through all types of baking blogs and find recipes that I want to try when I go home. So, when I got home on Tuesday, I was bored and sitting around the house waiting for my siblings to get home from school. (Why were they in school in the first place? They knew I was coming home. They should have skipped and thrown me a celebration...because I was home AND finished with exams. What were they thinking?!)

Anyways, I had already had some delicious Nutella and a big lunch, so I decided that I needed a lighter dessert. I settled with these from Skinny Taste which is this awesome website for recipes that are lighter, yet still tasteful. One of my personal favorite aspects of this site is the nutrition information that is posted for each recipe.

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

1 cup all-purpose flour

1 tsp. baking powder

1/2 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. salt

1/2 tsp. cinnamon

2 tbsp. butter

1/2 cup white granulated sugar

1/2 cup unpacked brown sugar

1 egg

1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce

1/2 tsp. vanilla

2 cups quick oats

3/4 cups semisweet chocolate chips

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line the cookie sheet with aluminum foil.

In a bowl, stir flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon to get your dry ingredients.

Next, mix together the butter (after you soften it) and the sugars. Add in the egg and vanilla. Tada! Wet ingredients.

Combine the oats into the flour and stir to mix it all together. Yum, I love oatmeal in the colder months.

Then combine the wet ingredients with the dry ingredients and completely mix. Add the chocolate chips.

Use a tablespoon scoop to scoop them onto the cookie sheet and place in the oven for 8-10 minutes until the edges are golden brown.

I like the lightness of the cookie. It is light on butter and substitutes applesauce in to make the cookies moist. The combination of the cinnamon with the applesauce with the chocolate is pretty darn good if you ask me. And, you cannot go wrong with oatmeal. Enjoy! Hopefully, I will be able to post some more of my creations that result from my baking adventures over break :)

This recipe makes about 28 cookies.