Heart Healthy Walnut Chocolate Chip Oat Cookies

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Destri and I must be on the same wave length – two chocolate chip cookie recipes back to back!  I have a heart healthy version for you today, so really we’re just making sure you have options . I saw the recipe for these cookies back in the Summer time from a great food blogger Frieda Loves Bread and wanted to try it ever since. With walnuts and oats, I was a little leery as to how my family would like them.  I finally got around to making them, and had I known how good they were I would have done it a lot sooner!  I have to say, pecans are my favorite nuts so I wondered how much I would like these cookies, guess what?…I love them and am making them again for sure. Even the nut hating kids couldn’t tell they were made from walnuts.

These cookies are full of flavor, chewy not hard and the chocolate chips make them extra special.  So if you want to feel good about eating a cookie (or two, or three), and a healthy treat to serve your family, give these a try.

Heart Healthy Walnut Chocolate Chip Oat Cookies

This recipe interested me for a few reasons 1) they are not made with regular flour and my mom is gluten free (some people are still allergic to the type of gluten in oats, but my mom is not) so I like to find recipes she can have, 2) they have no cholesterol 3) walnuts are the most healthy nut 4) oats are full of fiber and are heart healthy as well.

Ingredients:
2 cups of walnuts
3 T. canola oil
1/2 cup water
1 cup brown sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. salt
1 1/2 cup of oat flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. cinnamon
2 cups oatmeal
1 1/2 cups mini chocolate chips

Directions:
Step 1: Put the walnuts in a food processor and process until they are chopped fine. Add the canola oil and process until it begins to look like peanut butter. Transfer walnut butter to a mixing bowl.
Step 2: In a small saucepan whisk together brown sugar and water and heat to a boil. Pour over walnut butter, add vanilla and stir.
Step 3: Whisk together oat flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Stir into walnut mixture. Cool for 10 min.
Step 4: Fold in rolled oats, then chocolate chips. Shape cookies into 2” balls or use 2 T. cookie scoop, 2” apart on lightly greased baking sheet or put on parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.
Step 5: Bake at 350ºF for 8-10 minutes and cool on baking sheet for 3 minutes. Transfer to wire rack to completely cool.

Check out the nutritional info.here, there is actually nutrients in these cookies!

Nutrition Information:
Calories 132.7
Calories from Fat 63 47%
Total Fat 7.0 g 10%
Cholesterol 0.0 mg
Potassium 113.8 mg 3%
Saturated Fat 0.6 g 3%
Sodium 123.3 mg 5%
Magnesium 37.5 mg 1%
Monounsaturated Fat 1.6 g 8%
Total Carbohydrate 16.1 g 5%
Polyunsaturated Fat 4.2 g 21%
Dietary Fiber 1.6 g 6%
Trans Fat 0.0 g 0%
Sugars 7.5 g 30% (Use Splenda, sugar is cut down to 4.9g)
Protein 2.8 g 5%

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