My son and I worked on some holiday gifts yesterday. We thought we would make cookies in a jar for our friends. But then I have to be a killjoy, and see how healthy we can make them! We made a batch of these cookies to ensure they taste deceivingly good, given the whole wheat flour, less sugar than most cookies, and the flaxseed. And they passed the taste test! Delicious!
Healthy Kids Oatmeal Raisin Cookies (Cookie Mix in a Jar)
Ingredients:
1 cup whole wheat flour
1.5 tsp apple pie spice (make your own!)
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
3/4 cup raisins
1/2 cup ground flaxseed
2 cups rolled oats
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup white sugar
Directions:
Mix together first four ingredients to create the whole wheat flour mixture.
Layer ingredients into a wide-mouth (preferably) quart jar in the following order: flour mixture, raisins, rolled oats, brown sugar, white sugar, flaxseed.
Attach a tag to your cookies in a jar with the following instructions:
Healthy Kids Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line cookie sheet with parchment paper.
2. Empty jar of cookie mix into a large mixing bowl and mix.
3. Add to it: 1.5 sticks butter, softened; 1 slightly beaten egg; 1 tsp vanilla extract. Mix until blended.
4. Shape cookies into balls, place on parchment lined cookie sheet, 2 inches apart. Bake for 10-14 minutes, until edges are slightly browned. Cool for 10 minutes.
My son and I made these yesterday and I’ve yet to have the time to cover them in some sort of holiday-y fabric at top, and hang the instructions from them. But you get the picture!
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This looks good, but could you make it without the flax seeds?
Absolutely. I’m just a mean mom and like to sneak flaxseed to my kids! haha! If I was making them for myself…no flaxseed.