Healthy Makeover Chocolate-Chip Oatmeal Cookies
- Yield: servings
Revamped, these gems are still ooey-gooey good—but they’re only 80 calories each (with a gram of healthy fiber per cookie). We’ve also cut out half the fat and cholesterol you’d find in this treat’s calorie-laden cousins. Lose the guilt—and indulge!
Ingredients
- 1/2cup packed brown sugar
- 1/2cup granulated sugar
- 1/2cup trans-fat-free vegetable oil spread (60% to 70% oil)
- 1large egg
- 1large egg white
- 2teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 1/4cups all-purpose flour
- 1teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2teaspoon salt
- 2 1/2cups old-fashioned or quick-cooking oats, uncooked
- 6ounces bittersweet (62% cacao) or semisweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- In large bowl, with mixer on medium-low speed, beat sugars and vegetable spread until well blended, occasionally scraping bowl with rubber spatula. Add egg, egg white, and vanilla; beat until smooth. Beat in flour, baking soda, and salt until mixed. With spoon, stir in oats and chocolate chips until well combined.
- Drop dough by rounded measuring tablespoons, 2 inches apart, on ungreased large cookie sheet. Bake until golden, 12 to 13 minutes. With wide metal spatula, transfer cookies to wire rack to cool completely. Repeat with remaining dough.
- Store cookies in cookie jar up to 3 days.
Reprinted with permission from Good Housekeeping’s The Cookie Jar Cookbook: 65 Recipes for Classic, Chunky and Chewy Cookies, Hearst Books, 2011
Nutritional Info *per serving
- Calories 80
- Fat 4
- Saturated Fat 1
- Cholesterol 4
- Sodium 70
- Carbohydrate 11
- Fiber 1
