Oatmeal Raisin For the Win :)

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Choose Oatmeal Raisin Cookies!

Ingredients:
-3 cups of old-fashioned rolled oats
-1 cup all-purpose flour
-2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
-1/2 cup toasted wheat germ
-1 teaspoon baking soda
-1 teaspoon baking powder
-1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
-1/2 teaspoon coarse salt
-1 cup unsalted butter, softened
-1 cup granulated sugar
-1 cup packed light-brown sugar
-2 large eggs
-1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
-1 and a half cup of raisins

YUMMY!! Who doesn’t love cookies? Why not eat some with nutritional benefits! This is an amazing oatmeal raisin recipe that you can use to bake over the holiday’s! The oven gets set to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, you start out throwing the oats, flour, cinnamon, baking powder, wheat germ, baking soda, butter, and sugar. Once these are all thrown in you mix them all together until pale. Then you mix in the eggs and vanilla and mix slowly. Mix in the raisins and oat mixture!
Grab about one and a half inches of dough and put it on parchment paper on a baking sheet with them 2 inches apart. Cook them for about 14 minutes!

WOO! It is just as easy as that!!   

Raisins are dried grapes and are whole fruits that count towards your daily intake of fruits! Oats are a part of the grain’s category on MyPlate! This cookie provides nutritional value that other cookies cannot give your body! Like I said, choose the oatmeal raisin!!

AM

https://www.marthastewart.com/332409/oatmeal-raisin-cookies
https://www.choosemyplate.gov/preschoolers-food-groups

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