First attempt at no-sugar oatmeal cookies: SO Yummy! - Page 2

[ATD_Mom]

Originally Posted by mama2tzatziki

Mmm. These sound super yummy! I do have a question though. Are "thick cut oats" regular rolled whole oats, or are they something else (more like steel cut oats??)? TIA!

Rolled oats (also known as oatmeal, "old fashioned oatmeal", etc.) Definitely not steel cut oats, though. (Tried that once in a cookie - about broke a tooth!)

[mama2tzatziki]

Rolled oats (also known as oatmeal, "old fashioned oatmeal", etc.) Definitely not steel cut oats, though. (Tried that once in a cookie - about broke a tooth!)

Oh good. I've got *lots* of rolled oats. Now I can try these sooner! I wonder why I've never heard that name before...

[maxwill129]

Originally Posted by ATD_Mom

Shannon, I'm finally back home with my beloved cookbook, so I can post the carrot cake recipe.

nak

omg! how did i miss that u r expecting? congrats!!!

thanks for the recipe i'll give it a go (thanks robin )

[TinyFrog]

I tried the choc. peanut butter oatmeal ones and I give it and

I used some white choc and some milk choc, probably about 10-11 oz all together as that's what I had on hand and they're still

[cuttiebearmom]

I tried both of these recipes - oh my, too good !!!!

We had the carrot muffins with a homemade potatoe and corn soup. Dipping them in the soup was just about as good as it gets. DD1 said 'Mama this is better than pb&j'. That is a real accomplishment to any toddler (we only pb that is fresh crushed peanuts - nothing else allowed!).

I didn't add the chocolate to the pb/oatmeal cookies and they were still out of this world.

Thanks so much ATD_Mom !!!!

[VikingKvinna]

Ohhh, will definitely try these -- we (OK, not me, but DP! ) are going sugar-free, sorta. Anyway, always looking for good treats for the kids, and I do love carrot cake. Thanks, Mama!

[Severine]

Resurrecting... I made the 1st recipe today (Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Flaxseed Meal Cookies) using whole wheat pastry flour instead of the all-purpose. YUMMY!!!! I will definitely be making these again! I also wanted to mention that I got just shy of 3 dozen out of it, so unless you make really big cookies, this actually goes pretty far.

Thanks for sharing with us!!!

[lilsparrow]

Boy, I hit the jackpot when I found this thread!!

[ATD_Mom]

I could not be any happier to hear people like this stuff! So glad to share the yum.

I must also add this option: The first cookies - oatmeal choc chip - are usually made at my house not with chocolate chips, but with white chocolate chips and dried cherries. (about 3/4 C total)

Yummmy! My only advice there is this: Do not use Nestle white chocolate chips (they have an odd petroleum after taste to me), and I chop the dried cherries in half before putting them in.

Suddenly I'm inspired to cook again!

[BeingMe]

I have everything but the flaxseed meal, what can I use instead?

[ATD_Mom]

Originally Posted by shannyshan

I have everything but the flaxseed meal, what can I use instead?

The flaxseed meal is used as a substitute for fat in the recipe: 1 Cup of flaxseed meal will replace 1/3 C butter (or 3 Tbsp of flaxseed meal will replace 1 Tbsp of butter, etc.)

So I guess you could try adding 1/3x more of butter (or oil, in the case of the muffins - the original recipe called for oil, not butter) when you don't have flaxseed meal. (Where x is the amount of flaxseed meal called for in the recipe.)

I'm not sure exactly how the cookies would turn out, but I'm sure they'd be just fine. Maybe a little bit more wet when mixing and forming, but they'd probably turn out the same when it's all said and done. There isn't too awful much flaxseed meal in any of the recipes.

[lerlerler]

thanks for sharing... now i need to get to the grocery!

[ATD_Mom]

Who's up for chocolate chip banana muffins?

Yyyuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmy!

[ATD_Mom]

I'm sorry for being a tease!

After further review (ahem, scarfing) of the muffins I made today, DH and I have decided they need further tweaking before sharing the recipe. I'll be back!

[BeingMe]

I got some flaxseed today, do I just grind it up to make it into a meal?

[ATD_Mom]

Originally Posted by shannyshan

I got some flaxseed today, do I just grind it up to make it into a meal?

I've always bought flaxseed meal already ground up, but I just found through a Google search that you can just throw flaxseeds into a coffee or seed grinder for 5-10 seconds and it becomes flaxseed meal.

[devster4fun]

OK...I'm like a die-hard sugar addict/fiend! I ate my way to 50 extra lbs during my pregnancy. I'm losing the weight now and doing great...eating healthy etc....I was SO skeptical of this recipe....maple syrup, flax seed??

OMG!!! I made the oatmeal/choc chip cookies this morning...they are truly wonderful. I like them better than the regular ones with sugar and oil.

YOU are awesome and should publish a book. I would by several copies

I'm going to try the carrot cake recipe next. I'm a carrot cake connisseur and very picky about my carrot cake.

Thank you for sharing.

[ATD_Mom]

Originally Posted by devster4fun

YOU are awesome and should publish a book. I would by several copies

I'm going to try the carrot cake recipe next. I'm a carrot cake connisseur and very picky about my carrot cake.

Thank you for sharing.

Wow, thank you so much! But really, all I did was adapt other people's recipes. Okay, I adapted them a lot...

Warning about the carrot muffin recipe: Doing the substitution for sugar doesn't translate as well for muffins/cakes as it does for cookies. They will taste very different from regular carrot muffins, and will be more dense, I believe. Definitely can tell you're eating the "healthier" variety. If you'd like, I can post the original recipe, oil/sugar and all. It really is a yummy basic carrot cake on its own.

[mllrym]

Is there a substitute for butter in recipes?

[AngelBee]

Can't wait to try this :