Tag Archives: oatmeal

These secretly Healthy Nutella Chip Oatmeal Cookies are sweet, chewy, addicting, and PACKED FULL of chocolatey-hazelnutty goodness.  You’ll be in utter shock when you taste these because they don’t taste healthy — not in the slightest! Awwww yissss! These Nutella Chip Oatmeal Cookies are refined sugar free, gluten free, dairy …

I’ve always had trouble healthifying cookies because cookies always contain ingredients I don’t use, in large quantities, such as butter, sugar, and white flour.  But ALAS, I have finally perfected the recipe for these Healthy Chewy Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies!  These secretly guilt-free cookies are refined sugar free, gluten free, dairy free, …

It is most definitely Autumn with the apples popping up on the trees, leaves changing to beautiful golden colors and my kitchen smelling like Autumn all rolled up into a cookie. Last week I had this craving for an oatmeal cookie. But I wanted something special, something that was warm, …

My husband is actually quite easy to predict most of the time when it comes to his treats. He has his favorites, two of them being brownies and cake-like cookies. So when my three year old begged me to bake on a rainy day, I decided to make some chewy …

There’s no question about it: Oatmeal is a nutritional powerhouse. “Oats not only provide filling fiber, but are also rich in b-vitamins and minerals to aid in boosting your metabolism and providing stable energy throughout your day,” says Ali Miller, RD, LD, CDE, owner of Naturally Nourished, a functional medicine …

Oatmeal and raisin has had the spotlight for years.  Let’s screw the raisins for a while and give chocolate its chance to shine (since chocolate has been under appreciated for so, so many years). Sometimes chocolate chunks have a place, and when it comes to oatmeal, it basically always has …

Dates, huh? Oh yes. If you, like me, love stuffing a good handful of raisins in your mouth- because they’re really just candy dressed as heathy, dried up fruit- then hold on tight.  Dates are even better. Remember when I made the Date Squares?  (If not, drop everything, go the the …

Sometimes I surprise myself, and not in a good, surprise-party sort of way. Sometimes I do stupid things, which isn’t news to you (like almost burning down our condo, or regularly burning everything I put in the bottom rack of our devil’s-spawn-of-an-oven, or forgetting the date of my Grandmother’s 101st birthday …

I needed a recipe to remind me why it’s worth it to bake with yeast again.  Because sometimes yeast and I don’t get along… like when I made these Hot Cross Buns (which ended up not so hot… a lukewarmish success at best.  Lukewarm Cross Buns.  Not Hot.). I found it. …

If the idea of a fudgy, creamy, almost-inch-thick layer of bittersweet chocolate makes you feel funny inside (in that good way), then try to imagine this lovely layer sandwiched between what is essentially a buttery, crumbly, oatmeal cookie.  The cookie knows enough in this recipe to yield to the beauty …