Looking for something to bake with your kids? Baking together can be a great bonding activity.
There is almost nothing better than the smell of freshly baked cookies! Your kids will be delighted to see a homemade cookie as dessert in their MOMables lunch.
Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk Cookies are simply my favorite cookies ever. I tend to make up to two batches a month, and we eat them as snacks or as dessert throughout the month. I absolutely love making cookies from scratch.
Not only is it better for you than store-bought cookies, because you know every ingredient that goes into the cookie, for some reason, I find the whole process of making them and watching the dough turn into cookies therapeutic. Oh and, of course, eating cookies is very therapeutic too. ;)
Now, I have made these same cookies for years, but this time I decided to try something different. I wanted to make these cookies healthier, so I decided to switch some of the butter for applesauce. After that switch, I found that my batter seemed a little runny, so I added a little bit more flour and more oats.
The finished result was perfect. The cookies had a cake-like texture and they were delicious! You could take it a step further and substitute some of the all-purpose flour for whole wheat flour as well. Everyone in your family will love them and ask you to make them again!
The best part about these cookies is that they are so easy to make. Once you measure out all the ingredients, you’ll see that everything goes into one bowl and your dough comes together very quickly.
Tip: Use an ice cream scoop for perfectly shaped cookies.
Cookies are always a yummy addition to the lunch box—if they last that long!
PrintOatmeal Chocolate Chunk Cookies
- Yield: 2 dozen large cookies
- Cuisine: Treat
Ingredients
- ¼ cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- ½ cup applesauce
- 1 cup brown sugar, packed
- ½ cup sugar
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- 2– 2 ½ cups quick oats
- 2 cups chocolate chunks
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F, and line cookie sheets with parchment paper, or silpat liner.
- Cream the butter with a mixer.
- Add the applesauce, sugars, salt, cloves, baking soda, cinnamon, and baking powder to the butter, and mix well.
- Add the vanilla and eggs, and blend.
- Add the flour, a little at a time, and mix until fully blended.
- Add the oats, and mix with a spoon.
- Add in the chocolate chunks, and mix with a spoon.
- Using a 3-tablespoon ice cream scoop, drop the cookies onto the cookie sheet.
- Bake the cookies for 12 to 13 minutes.
- Leave the cookies on the cookie sheet to cool for a few minutes. Then remove the cookies from the cookie sheet onto a cooling rack, and allow them to finish cooling.
Notes
If the batter seems too thin, you can add more oats if necessary, one spoonful at a time.
Cindy
Thanks! Perfect for her class. They look great. (Haven’t had one – I forget how many kids there are!)
Kaela
Just because oatmeal is an ingredient doesn’t always equal healthy. These are packed with sugar and calls for all purpose flour. Not to mention the butter and chocolate chunks. These are far from healthy. It is a shame you are marketing a lot of your recipes as healthy to unsuspecting Mms who might not know any better, when most of the recipes aren’t healthy.
MOMables
I didn’t say these were healthy cookies. I said these were healthier than store bought ones with mystery ingredients and that I changed the traditional recipe with added apple sauce. Real ingredients = much healthier than the ones from the store with unidentifiable preservatives, stabilizers and more. This isn’t a low fat, low sugar, low low low low website. This is a “I can identify the ingredients in the recipe” website.
Kaela
Sure it is healthier then store bought, everything is when you make it yourself and there are billions of blogs and websites that have recipes for cookies and any other meal or snack. I guess I was just misled by a friend who told me this was a healthy food blog for kids lunches.
MOMables
there is nothing misleading about our website. I believe homemade with simple and real ingredients is best.
Kaela
I never said your website was misleading. I said I was misled by a friend who told me this was a healthy eating website. No one is to blame.
Kelly
Sorry about that comment!!! Oatmeal cookies are hands down the most delicious cookie, ever…well, so are no bakes! You always preface if a recipe is healthy, and your post wasn’t misleading in the least! Enjoy your emails & blog immensely!
Danica
Any suggestions on how you would make this recipe egg free?
Michelle
Danica, I would recommend replacing the eggs with mashed riped banana, or using ground flax to make these egg free. You can take 1 Tablespoon of ground flax and combine with 3 Tablespoons of warm water. You mix it and then set it aside for 5+ minutes until it becomes “gel-like”. Usually when making a recipe with flax “eggs” you will need to put a little extra baking soda too. I hope this helps!
Kelly
Flax meal is an awesome egg replacer. Best part…salmonella free cookie dough!!!! :-) :-) :-)