Recipe - Chewy Oatmeal Spice Cookies

Three fourths cup Firmly packed brown sugar
One half cup Granulated sugar
4 tablespoon Margarine
Three fourths cup Apple butter* or apple sauce
2 Egg whites or 1 egg
2 tablespoon Skim milk
2 teaspoon Vanilla
1 One half cup Allpurpose flour
1 teaspoon Baking soda
1 teaspoon Ground cinnamon
One half teaspoon Salt; (optional)
One fourth teaspoon Ground nutmeg; (optional)
3 cup QUAKER¨ Oats (quick or old
fashioned; uncooked)
1 cup Raisins or minced dried mixed
fruit

Heat oven to 350¡F. Lightly spray cookie sheet with nostick cooking spray.
Beat together sugars and margarine until well blended. Add apple butter,
egg whites, milk and vanilla; beat well. Add combined flour, baking soda,
cinnamon, salt and nutmeg; mix well. Stir in oats and raisins; mix well.
(Dough will be moist.) Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls onto prepared cookie
sheet. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Cool 1
minute on cookie sheet; remove to wire rack. Cool completely. Store in
tightly covered container.

ABOUT 3One half DOZEN

* Apple butter is usually available in your supermarket's jam & jelly
section.

Nutrition Information 1 cookie: Calories 90, Calories From Fat 15, Total
Fat 2g, Saturated Fat 0g, Cholesterol 0mg, Sodium 45mg, Total Carbohydrates
19g, Dietary Fiber 1g, Protein 2g

Note: For a nofatadded cookie, omit margarine and increase apple butter
to 1 cup; and continue as recipe directs. Nutrition Information: 1 cookie
(made without margarine or butter) Calories 90, Calories from Fat 5, Total
Fat 0g, Cholesterol 0mg, Sodium 30mg, Total Carbohydrates 19g, Dietary
Fiber 1g, Protein 2g

Recipe by: www.quakeroatmeal.com

Posted to MCRecipe Digest by Diana Stephens mdstephe@ix.netcom.com on
May 5, 1998