Delicious Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Here's a recipe for some delicious, moist, and healthy chocolate chip cookies. The recipe is a bit of work, there's some serious hand-stirring, but it's well worth it. They're the best cookies I have ever made.

2-1/2 cups quick cooking rolled oats
1 cup unbleached all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground all spice
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons unsalted butter at room temperature
2 tablespoon canola oil
1 cup firmly packed brown suger
1 large egg white
1/3 cup applesauce
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2/3 cup chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350.

In a bowl stir together oats, flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, allspice, and salt until well mixed. In a different large bowl, using a wooden spoon, cream together the butter and canola oil until blended. The mixture will be oily. Add the brown sugar and beat with the spoon until the mixture is fluffy and clings together, about 3 minutes. Mix in the egg white, applesauce, vanilla, and chocolate chips. The mixture may look slightly curdled. Add the dry ingredients and mix until a sticky dough forms.

Spoon onto cookie sheet. For a crisper cookie flatten the cookie, for a softer cookie, do not flatten as much. Bake cookies for 15 minutes, or until they are cinnamon brown (it took mine longer than 15 minutes). Remove from oven and transfer cookies to wire rack. The cookies will crisp as they cool.

bom apetite!