Ingredients
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5 tablespoons butter or 5 tablespoons margarine
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1/2 cup packed brown sugar
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1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
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1/2 cup whole wheat flour
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1/2 cup white flour
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2 tablespoons flax seed meal (optional(adds fiber and omega 3s)
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1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
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1/2 teaspoon salt
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1 3/4 cups uncooked old-fashioned oatmeal
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1 cup trail mix
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1 banana, mashed
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1 egg white
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1/2 cup chunky peanut butter
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Cream butter and brown sugar until smooth.
- Add peanut butter and blend well.
- Mix in egg white, banana and vanilla.
- Add flours, flax seed meal, baking powder and salt and stir until well mixed.
- Add oatmeal and stir until soft dough forms.
- If the trail mix has large chunks (like dried pineapple), cut into smaller chunks, then measure to make 1 cup.
- Stir trail mix into the batter.
- You can either drop the dough by heaping teaspoonsful onto the cookie sheet (sprayed with cooking spray) or shape the batter a litte into flattened balls of dough. I like to shape them a bit.
- Place the cookies about 2 inches apart on the cookie sheet.
- Bake for 8 - 12 minutes or until set.