(new) Apple Sauce and Oatmeal Cookies

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This is a recipe I'm creating and improving, and sharing live the work in progress to easily bake fluffy, light, soft and not too sweet cookies, perfect (for me) for breakfast. Also, please excuse my French accent, English is not my main language and I know my sentences have a French flavour.

So I needed to fix my breakfast for today (okay that was last week) and the next couple of days, so I decided to bake another batch of my new original recipe I created last week of Oatmeal Apple Sauce Cookies.

But since I wasn't totally satisfied with the recipe -I thought there was too much oatmeal-, although there were very tasty, I decided to tweak it and make it a new recipe.

First of all, I found half a cup of granulated sugar in my cupboard; as I said last time, any type of sugar can be used for these recipes, and I was using dark brown sugar, the only sugar I thought I had. But I wanted to see them with regular sugar so I was glad to find this end of bag of sugar.

Then, grabbing the egg in the the fridge, I realized that on such a small recipe, the size of the egg matters, and my batter ended up very, thick, I thought too thick, so I added a 7th TBspoon of apple sauce; that egg was smaller so I needed to adapt.

So it'll be 6-7 TBspoons of apple sauce, according to the size of the egg. The batter should be very thick, but not too thick that you cannot mix it manually (with difficulties though) with a wood spoon.

I added cinnamon, but it can barely be tasted because either my cinnamon is too old (just bought it, but the store maybe...), either and most likely it's rather that I never used Ceylon cinnamon before, I'm reading that its taste isn't as strong as other cinnamon like Chinese cinnamon, which is much less expensive and probably what people usually use, and probably what I always used. So one teaspoon of Chinese cinnamon could be a lot for this recipe, but if you use Ceylon cinnamon, it could be doubled.

I'll need to experiment more with different types of cinnamon, but I'm reading that only Ceylon cinnamon can be trusted to feed birds (I searched that before sharing a dried out cookie with my birdie friends in the backyard).

The result is a very fluffy, light and soft cookie, lightly sweet and perfect for breakfast; they are very good hot from the oven, and the day after, either reheated or as is, they are perfect too; they can keep for a while and are still soft.

I'm thinking... next time I might skip the oatmeal or replace it... But for now,

Let's bake:

2 TBspoon butter
1/2 cup sugar
6-7 TBsp apple sauce
1 egg
1 1/4 cup flour
3/4 cup oatmeal flakes
1/3 cup mini choco-chip
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon

gives 17-22 cookies

Fork in butter with sugar, add egg, then apple sauce, then flour, baking powders, salt and optional cinnamon, then fold in oatmeal flakes and chocolate chips; drop on cookie sheets with 2 spoons, ideally with parchment paper.

In details:

Butter on the counter is still hard, but with the help of a fork, and my wood spoon, I managed to mix it in with the sugar, and this time I didn't add prematurely the apple sauce.

 Add the egg

 

and mix in, then add

 

the apple sauce

 

and mix in, then add

the flour and baking powders, the salt and cinnamon, mix in then add the oatmeal and the chocolate chips, and blend in; it should be a very thick dough and difficult to mix with a wood spoon.

I succeeded in detailing (excuse my French but English is lacking a word here: détailler) this into 22 cookies on two baking sheets with parchment paper; I usually make them too big.

 

Bake 10-12 minutes @ 350 F

the larger ones and the smaller ones are cooked pretty much the same.

I forgot to mention that any kind of wheat flour can be used, I used unbleached white flour.

again the recipe

(new) Apple Sauce and Oatmeal Cookies, by Dominique Rock

2 TBspoon butter
1/2 cup sugar
6-7 TBsp apple sauce
1 egg
1 1/4 cup flour
3/4 cup oatmeal flakes
1/3 cup mini choco-chip
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon

gives 17-22 cookies

Fork in butter with sugar, add egg, then apple sauce, then flour, baking powders, salt and optional cinnamon, then fold in oatmeal flakes and chocolate chips; drop on cookie sheets with 2 spoons, ideally with parchment paper.