Healthy Cookies. No, Really!

She Said:

I have been on the hunt for some tasty healthy cookies for a while now and I think I've found them. I have bought different kinds of pre-packaged organic and natural cookies but they all fell short. So yesterday I tried this recipe and they are actually really tasty! I followed the recipe almost exactly. Here's what I did:

Healthy Honey Oatmeal Cookies

3 tablespoons butter, softened
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup honey
1 egg
1 tablespoon water
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 cups old-fashioned oats
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350℉. Spray a cookie sheet with nonstick cooking spray. Using a mixer with paddle attachment, mix together the butter, brown sugar, honey, egg and water thoroughly. Sift together the flour, salt and baking soda and then stir in the oats. Add the dry ingredients to the wet and mix. Add in the chocolate chips. Drop by heaping teaspoonfuls onto the cookie sheet. Bake 12 to 15 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.

A couple of things that I learned. 1) Do not spray the cookie sheet with nonstick cooking spray - it just burns. I'll use parchment paper or a Silpat next time. 2) I would have preferred raisins to the chocolate chips. Or along with. These cookies just needed raisins.

That's it, though. They're quite tasty, still soft the next day, and, yep, even relatively healthy. I will use more organic and/or natural ingredients next time. I just had the standard stuff on hand this time. Why buy the expensive stuff if you don't know whether or a not a recipe is good, right?

Oh, also, I think I would do a light drizzle of a white chocolate glaze over the top next time, too. They could use a little punch of sweetness on the top.