Recipe – Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies

As you know, cinnamon is antioxidant queen (and if you didn’t know, now you do) … and what better way to get your daily dose than through a cookie?

I found the recipe years ago in a magazine, but it has become my own design after years of tinkering it to the perfect balance of cinnamon and oats.

Ingredients:

• 3/4cup old fashioned oats
• 3/4cupwhole wheat pastry flour
• 1 1/2tsp baking powder
• 1/2tsp sea salt
• 1/2tsp ground cinnamon
• 2tbsp unsalted butter, softened
• 2 tbsp applesauce
• 3tbps apple butter
• 3/4cup sugar
• 1/2cup light brown sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 1/2tsp pure vanilla extract

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350. In a bowl combine oats, flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon; set aside.
2. In a larger bowl blend together apple, butter, butter,applesauce and sugars until smooth. Add egg and vanilla- blend. Add oat mixture, blend well.
3. Drop batter, 2tbsp lumps onto greased baking sheets(or on parchment paper-lined sheets).
4. Bake 18 minutes, let cool.