Healthy Honey Oatmeal Cookies

By aamundson

These are easy to make! and healthy for you too (small amount of butter & sugar), but still so very sweet and wholesome. The cookies are chewy and go great with any other add-ins (raisins, cranberries, chocolate chips, etc.) Courtesy of FoodNetwork.com

Ingredients

• 3 tablespoons butter, room temperature
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup honey
• 1 egg
• 1 tablespoon water
• 1/2 cup whole wheat flour (all-purpose is good too)
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 1/2 cups rolled oats (aka oatmeal)
• chopped dates (optional) or figs (optional) or raisins (optional) or currants (optional) or chocolate chips (optional) or chopped nuts, etc (optional)

Details

Servings 1
Preparation time 10mins
Cooking time 25mins
Adapted from food.com

Preparation

Step 1

1 Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a cookie sheet with nonstick cooking spray (just for convenience :]). 2 Using a mixer with the paddle attachment, mix together the butter, brown sugar, honey, egg and water thoroughly. 3 Sift together the dry ingredients then stir in the oats. Add the dry ingredients to the wet and mix. Add any additional ingredients you've chosen. 4 Drop by heaping teaspoonfuls onto the cookie sheet. Bake 12 to 15 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.
Serving Size: 1 (48 g)

Servings Per Recipe: 10

Amount Per Serving
% Daily Value
Calories 171.7

Calories from Fat 43
25%
Total Fat 4.8 g
7%
Saturated Fat 2.5 g
12%
Cholesterol 27.7 mg
9%
Sodium 189.5 mg
7%
Total Carbohydrate 30.3 g
10%
Dietary Fiber 1.8 g
7%
Sugars 17.8 g
71%
Protein 3.0 g