HONEY APPLE BREAKFAST BALLS
“So I have been using an app for my phone to help me lose weight (I like to call my app, ‘Fred’). As part of the app, ‘Fred’ shows me little articles every day to help me live a healthier life. Well, I usually just ignore the articles (no offense, ‘Fred’) and go on about my day (way to change your ways, ‘Dave’). Any who, yesterday’s article talked about breakfast cookies. Needless to say, I clicked on the article (way to meet me where I am at, ‘Fred’). Sure it is a recipe for a healthy cookie (‘Blasphemy!’ you say, but just wait. They are after all a ‘cookie’ for ‘breakfast,’ so they are certainly worth a try), but I trust ‘Fred’ and so should you.
These little cookie bites have a welcoming Autumn flavor, plus the healthy ingredients don’t make you feel the least bit guilty for eating cookies for breakfast (plus they are only about 50 calories per cookie). Now if you are still offended by the idea of a ‘healthy cookie,’ feel free to sin them up a little with the addition of either white chocolate chips or a complete substitution of semi-sweet chocolate chips. ‘Fred’ doesn’t need to know.”
1 Apple (in order to make the cookie more worthy of the “honey” name, I used Honeycrisp apples)
1 cup Unsweetened Applesauce
1/3 cup Vegetable Oil
¼ cup Honey
½ cup Flour
½ cup Whole Wheat Flour
½ teaspoon Baking Powder
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
½ teaspoon Nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon Salt
1 cup Quick Cooking Oats
½ cup Craisins (or if you want to indulge, feel free to substitute Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Grate the apple and use a strainer to squeeze out as much juice as possible.
Mix together the grated apple, applesauce, vegetable oil, and honey.
Mix in the flour, whole wheat flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt.
Mix in the oats.
Stir in the craisins.
Drop tablespoon sized balls of dough onto parchment paper lined baking sheets.
Bake for 10 minutes or until the cookie bottoms have lightly browned.
Makes about 46 breakfast balls.
Revised Source: https://blog.myfitnesspal.com/apple-cinnamon-breakfast-cookies/