Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies

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• Who doesn't freaking love chocolate chip cookies? They are my favorite dessert, hands down. I have been in search of healthier choc. chip cookie recipes for quite some time now..like years. This is by far, the best. It's a combination of a few healthy recipes I've stumbled upon, plus my own tweaks. Let me just apologize to those of you who had to endure the various hearty-cardboard-biscuit-like  cookie recipes in the past. I was on a path to discovery... 
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• Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies
• 3/4 cup rolled oats
• 1 cup whole-wheat flour*
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup safflower oil*
• 1/3 cup turbinado sugar
• 1/3 cup brown sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup chocolate chips
• 1/2 cup crushed walnuts (optional)
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1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Coat 2 baking sheets with cooking spray.
2. Grind oats in a blender or food processor, or I use a coffee grinder. Transfer to a medium bowl and stir in flour, baking soda and salt. Beat oil, turbinado sugar, brown sugar, egg and vanilla until smooth and creamy. With the mixer running, add the dry ingredients, beating on low speed until just combined. Stir in chocolate chips.
3. Drop the dough by heaping teaspoonfuls, at least 1 inch apart, onto the prepared baking sheets. Bake cookies, 1 sheet at a time for about 10 minutes or to desired firmness.

*If you are opposed to the taste of wheat flour, you can do 1/2 c of white and 1/2 c of wheat

*Safflower oil is a much healthier alternative to butter. Look in the healthy/organic section of the grocery.

***Also, maybe most of you knew this trick, but I first discovered it this summer at the Maple family reunion. Once you have put the cookies in tupperware, stick a slice of bread in with them and they will stay very moist.

Nutrition

Per cookie: 90 calories; 3.5 g fat; 12 g carbohydrates; 1 g protein; 1 g fiber; 64 mg sodium; 55 mg potassium.