March’s CLC recipe selected by: Small Fry, a children’s lifestyle blog based in Utah County that is all about celebrating parenthood and childhood. They feature DIY projects, fashion, food, parties, sweet films and so much more! Created just over a year ago, their blog has blossomed into the place to be for hip and adventurous living.
Small Fry (contributors pictured from left to right Emily Frame, Nicole Christensen and Jenna Rammell): we love a good cookie, and, of course, so do our kids. If you have a great recipe they love, why not throw in some healthier additions? We call this the Kitchen Sink cookie because it has just about everything in it except the kitchen sink, as they say. To give these delicious cookies a little healthy edge, we added apple juice, raw oats, carrot shavings and ground flax seed! They’re definitely not good for you, but they’re a little bit better with these additions! Even better, you’ll hear all about Emily’s super-secret, no-fail golden brown cookie and the easiest alternative to store-bought brown sugar. Hint: She makes her own, and
she made believers out of us!
Do you sneak in healthy ingredients to your cookies? Tell us about it here.
Small Fry loves this recipe from: Mique, who write the adorable blog 30 Handmade Days. She tweaked this recipe for her family here.
Check it out!
KITCHEN SINK COOKIES
3/4 c. butter
3/4 c. brown sugar
1 egg
1/2 c. apple juice
1 t. vanilla extract
1 c. all-purpose flour (Depending on your preference, we substituted three tablespoons of ground flax seed for 3 tablespoons of flour-you can definitely do more or less!)
1 t. salt
1 t. baking powder1 c. chocolate chips
2 c. raw oats
1.5 c. crispy rice cereal
1/2 c. fresh grated carrot
Making your own Brown Sugar:
Using a fork, mix together one cup of regular granulated white sugar with 1 Tablespoon of unsulfured molasses until it’s fully combined.
Directions:
– Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
– Cream the room-temperature butter and brown sugar together. Beat in the egg. Stir the apple juice and vanilla into the mixture.
– In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, salt and baking powder.
– Add chocolate chips, Krispy rice cereal, carrot shavings and ground flax.
Tip! If you like fluffy and golden-brown cookies, but keep getting flat and burnt edges, put your cookie batter in the fridge for 20 minutes before baking. The butter hardens a bit keeping the batter better intact during baking!
Use a small ice cream scoop to transfer the mixture to a greased sheet pan, bake at 350 degrees fahrenheit for 8-10 minutes!