good for you chocolate chip cookies

These are actually really really good!

Good For You Chocolate Chip Oatmeal "Cookies"

makes 20-24 cookies

Ingredients 

1/2 cup coconut oil

1 cup peanut butter

1/2 cup raw honey (this makes them very lightly sweetened--add more honey if you want more of a sweet cookie)

2 large eggs

2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 

3 cups rolled oats 

1 cup unsweetened shredded coconut

1/4 cup ground flax

1 teaspoon baking soda 

1 teaspoon baking powder 

1/2 tsp salt

1 1/2 tsp cinnamon 

1/2 cup chopped almonds

1/2 cup dark chocolate chips
edited to add
lately I've been adding:
1/2 cup hemp seeds
1/4 cup chia seeds
extra almonds

preheat oven to 350°

In an electric mixer, combine coconut oil, peanut butter, and honey. Add in eggs and vanilla and beat on high speed for a few minutes. 

In a separate bowl combine, oats, coconut, flax, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Mix. 

Slowly add in dry mixture to peanut butter mixture, mixing slowly. Stir in chocolate chips and almonds. 

Drop by the spoonful onto parchment, and then smash down with a spoon 

(these don't spread while baking)

Bake for 8 minutes.

Now as tempted as you will to eat these straight out of the oven......don't do it! They LOOK like a cookie. They SMELL like a cookie. But they aren't a cookie, and need to cool first, I promise. 

My kids devoured these after school and begged to take them for their snack tomorrow....so I think they passed the test. 

from here: http://inthelittleredhouse.blogspot.com/2013/08/my-hunger-games.html