Apple Oatmeal Cookies Recipe

This apple oatmeal cookies recipe is really good for a semi-healthy dessert or for cookies to keep around the house that you can eat  instead of downing Twinkies or something atrocious like that.

The brown sugar is essential to making these taste right, so make sure you don’t use white sugar instead.

This reminds me of the first time I decided that I was old enough to ride a horse by myself; no adult holding the lead rope. I was at my grandma’s house. I was seven. The steed that I chose for this rite of passage was named Henry, a 15 year old Appaloosa. Henry was supposed to be the tamest of the tame, the epitome of a child-friendly horse.

Without telling anyone, for the post-ride bravery points, I mounted old Henry boy and started with a lap around the house. I wanted everyone to see me doing this, so I made sure to pass by the big window a few times. But I didn’t look in; that would have been too approval-seeking-ish.

On the second pass, I walked Henry under the big willow tree. This move ended up costing me my dignity.

For some reason, in his mind, those thin, hanging branches ran down Henry’s back like the breath of a llama (Henry’s greatest fear).

Suddenly we were galloping, which caused my inner baby girl to come out. Instead of strutting by the window with the coolest look on my face that you have ever seen, I had a death clutch on the saddle horn with both hands, screaming for my dad.

As if the full speed gallop wasn’t enough, Henry decided that he needed to start bucking and rearing up on his back legs.

The story ends with me in the rose bush bleeding and sobbing, with snot and tears all over my face.

My grandpa’s advice was to quit being a sissy, get back on the horse, and run him up and down the field until he understood that “I was the boss.”

I admit, at seven years old, I was weak. Instead of doing what my grandpa said, I went inside and continued to cry while my grandma fed me apple oatmeal cookies.

Here’s the recipe:

Ingredients:

• 1 c. butter
• 2 c. brown sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 c. finely chopped apples
• 3 c. oatmeal
• 1/2 c. chopped nuts
• 1 1/3 c. flour (can be whole wheat flour)
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp nutmeg
• 1/2 tsp cloves

Directions:

1. Mix together the butter, sugar, vanilla and eggs in a bowl.
2. Then add the diced up apples.
3. Then mix in the flour, salt, soda and spices to apple mixture.
4. Stir the oatmeal and the nuts.
5. Mix it all together real well.
6. Put tablespoon-sized balls onto a cookie sheet.
7. Bake in the oven at 350 degrees, 15 to 18 minutes.

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