Cooking Easy Recipes

Quaker's: Chewy Oatmeal Spice Cookies

Servings:
42 Servings
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  • 3/4 c Firm packed brown sugar
  • 1/2 c Granulated sugar
  • 4 tb Margarine
  • 3/4 c Apple butter*
  • -or apple sauce
  • 2 Egg whites or 1 egg
  • 2 tb Skim milk
  • 2 ts Vanilla
  • 1 1/2 c All-purpose flour
  • 1 ts Baking soda
l ts ground cinnamon
l/2 ts salt (optional)
1/4 ts ground nutmeg (optional)
3 c QUAKER Oats uncooked
: -(quick or old fashioned)
l c raisins/diced dried mixed fruit

Heat oven to 350 F. Lightly spray cookie sheet with no-stick cooking
spray. Beat together sugars and margarine until well blended. Add apple
butter, egg whites, milk and vanilla; beat well. Add combined flour, baking
soda, cinnamon, salt and nutmeg; mix well. Stir in oats and raisins; mix
well. (Dough will be moist.) Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls onto prepared
cookie sheet. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until edges are light golden brown.
Cool 1 minute on cookie sheet; remove to wire rack. Cool completely. Store
in tightly covered container.

* Apple butter is usually available in your supermarket's jam & jelly
section.

Convenient Bar Cookies: Spread dough onto bottom of ungreased 9x13-inch
baking pan. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until edges are light golden brown.
Cool completely; cut into bars. Store tightly covered. 32 BARS

Nutrition Information: l cookie Calories 9O, Calories From Fat l5, Total
Fat 2g, Saturated Fat 0g, Cholesterol 0mg, Sodium 45mg, Total Carbohydrates
19g, Dietary Fiber 1g, Protein 2g

Note: For a no-fat-added cookie, omit margarine and increase apple butter
to l cup; and continue as recipe directs.

Nutrition Information: 1 cookie (made without margarine or butter)
Calories 9O, Calories from Fat 5, Total Fat 0g, Cholesterol 0mg, Sodium
30mg, Total Carbohydrates 19g, Dietary Fiber 1g, Protein 2g