These cookies are so healthy and so good for you! Okay, maybe not exactly but a little flaxseed and oatmeal can’t hurt, right?

These Oatmeal-Flax Chocolate Chip Cookies are chewy, fluffy, and full of chocolately goodness. They were a huge hit with my kids, and I’m sure they would be with yours! (And if you don’t have kids, I won’t tell if you eat the whole recipe.)

I know I have a few chocolate chip cookie recipes on this blog, but I honestly don’t mind. Can you ever have too many chocolate chip cookie recipes? I didn’t think so.

So, you know what you need to do. Go. Make these cookies. And then eat them. Before you bake them, first you must try the dough. (If you’re into that sort of thing. I am so into that sort of thing. I LOVE cookie dough.) And then come back and thank me.

Oatmeal-Flax Chocolate Chip Cookies

recipe adapted from The Food Network Magazine

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 3/4 cup whole wheat pastry flour (next time I am going to get rid of the AP flour and do all whole wheat. yum!)
• 1 cup quick-cooking oats
• 1/4 cup flaxseed, finely ground (I used flaxseed meal)
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp coarse salt
• 1 tsp instant coffee granules
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1/4 cup coconut oil, melted and cooled (you could omit this and add 1/4 cup butter if you want)
• 1/2 cup packed dark brown sugar
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 cup chocolate chips

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper, and set aside.
2. Whisk the flours, oats, flaxseed, baking soda, salt, coffee, and cinnamon in a bowl.
3. Beat the butter, coconut oil, and sugars until fluffy, about 4 minutes. Add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition. Add vanilla and beat some more.
4. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and mix well. Stir in the chocolate chips.
5. Drop heaping tablespoonfuls of dough onto lined baking sheet, about 2 inches apart. Bake until golden brown, about 10-12 minutes (mine were perfect at 11). Let cookies cool for a few minutes on the baking sheet, and then move to wire racks to cool completely.
6. Enjoy!!

– the Jilb

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These cookies taste just like those Cranberry Bliss bars you can get at Starbucks. Exactly.

I found this recipe when I was searching for something to make with all these oranges I had sitting around. I found a Cranberry Orange Cookie, tweaked it to add some other ingredients I had, and ended up with these yummy cookies.

In these cookies are craisins, white chocolate chips, orange zest, and freshly squeezed orange juice. You can’t go wrong with any of those ingredients!

Cranberry Bliss Cookies

recipe inspired from Allrecipes.com

Ingredients:

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 orange, zested
• juice of one orange, about 2 T
• 2 & 3/4 cups flour
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 cup craisins or cranberries
• 1/2 cup white chocolate chips

Icing:

• 1 & 1/2 cups powdered sugar
• 1/2 tsp grated orange zest
• juice of one orange, about 2 T

Directions:

1. In a large bowl, cream together your sugars and butter. Beat in the egg until well-combined. Mix in the 2 T orange juice, and zest of one orange.
2. In another bowl, combine the flour, baking soda and salt. Stir into the orange mixture. Mix in your craisins and white chocolate chips.
3. Refrigerate dough for at least 30 minutes.
4. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
5. On a lined baking sheet, drop dough by tablespoonfuls. Press down on tops of dough a little bit.
6. Bake 12-14 minutes or until the edges are golden brown.
7. Remove from cookie sheets to wire racks until cooled completely.
8. In a small bowl, mix your powdered sugar, zest, and orange juice until smooth. Drizzle over the top of cooled cookies. Let stand until set.
9. Enjoy!

– the Jilb

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