Coconut Oatmeal Cookies

These Coconut Oatmeal Cookies were so yummy! I love following a health blog called Word of Wisdom Living. He posts some great healthy recipes. He calls these cookies...

Skip's Oatmeal Cookies

Ingredients:

• 1 C butter (2 sticks), softened
• 1 C turbinado sugar (or any raw sugar)
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 C whole wheat flour (fresh ground is best)
• ¼ C wheat bran (if you have it, otherwise use wheat germ, or just more flour)
• 1 tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp salt
• 3 C rolled oats (Old Fashioned, not instant oats)
• 1 C chopped fresh walnuts, chopped
• 2/3 C semisweet chocolate chips (we prefer the mini size and I divide the 12-oz package to get 3 batches)

Directions:

1. Turn oven on to 350 F (after checking that your children haven’t left any toys inside).
2. In a large bowl cream the butter and sugar; beat in two eggs and vanilla.
3. In a smaller bowl blend dry ingredients (flours, salt, and baking soda).
4. To the large bowl, stir in the dry ingredients, oats, walnuts, and chips.
5. Place rounded tablespoons of dough on a baking pan and flatten with a fork.  (If you do this a lot, get one of those scoops with the device that pops the dough out.)
6. Bake 12 minutes or so, cool, transfer from pan to wire grill for a few minutes to dry a bit.  We bag them into sandwich bags and freeze them for later, taking a bag out each day.  If there are kids around give them a cookie with an apple, orange or banana.

However, I changed it up a bit. Here is what I did...

Coconut Oatmeal Cookies

• 1 C Organic Extra-Virgin Coconut Oil, softened
• 1 C Organic Coconut Palm Sugar
• 2 Organic Eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 C Organic Whole Wheat Flour (stone ground)
• 1/4 C Wheat Germ
• 1 tsp Baking Soda
• 1/2 tsp Sea Salt
• 3 C Organic Old Fashioned Oats
• 1 C Sliced Almonds
• 1/4 C Unsweetened Coconut Flakes
• 2/3 Cacao Chocolate Chips

 Cream softened coconut oil and sugar together. Beat in eggs and vanilla.

 Dry ingredients.

 I also added unsweetened coconut flakes.

 Mixing it all up!

 Mash rolled cookie dough with a fork before putting in the oven.

All done and oh so good, especially with some fruit!