I was invited to participate in The Healthy Baking Challenge with Carrington Farms and T-fal to celebrate National Nutrition Month! My challenge was to use healthier ingredients like Carrington Farms Coconut Cooking Oil and Flax Chic Blend to create a homemade, guilt-free recipe and then bake it with my new T-fal cookie sheets. I decided to tweak my favorite recipe for Oatmeal Cookies and create something healthier (and yummier) with a few Carrington Farms products.
The products they sent to me to achieve this task included:
Carrington Farms Coconut Oil Cooking Spray:
Switch to a healthier cooking spray that is convenient, easy-to-use, and has zero calories! Carrington Farms Coconut Oil Cooking Spray is perfect for making every meal slide off any pan, from pancakes, eggs, grilled cheese sandwiches and of course, all your baked goodies! This all-natural coconut spray quickly and easily coats baking pans and cookie sheets to keep food from sticking.
Carrington Farms Coconut Cooking Oil:
Want to cook with the benefits of coconut oil without changing the flavor of your food? Finally, there is affordable, all natural, Gluten-Free, Hexane-Free, and Non-GMO liquid coconut oil is a fantastic alternative to all those traditional oils (vegetable, olive, canola, corn, etc.). You are going to want to use this in all your recipes since this liquid coconut oil retains all of the health benefits of traditional coconut oil without the odor/flavor of coconuts. Plus, it remains in liquid form regardless of your house temp. Carringtonโs Liquid Coconut Cooking Oil is even useful for frying since it has a higher heat point than traditional olive oils. Best of all, you can easily use it in all your baking as a sub for vegetable oil.
Carrington Farms Flax Chia Blend:
The best two seeds have come together in one bag as a Flax seed and Chia seed blend! Carrington Farms Flax Chia Blend is an excellent source of energy and nutrients that will give you lasting heart health and a boosted metabolism too. You can throw a handful of these into most of your baked goods for added nutrition without changing the flavor or texture of them. Try them in smoothies, oatmeal and yogurt too! So many possibilities and so yummy.
T-fal AirBake Natural:
T-fal’s AirBake cookie sheets are the go-to cookie sheet for any household because they provide an overall enhanced baking performance because of their unique, insulated design and MicroDome technology. This means you’ll get better browning, no burning, and even a decreased bake times. Your cookies won’t know what hit them!
Armed with my new T-fal Airbake cookie sheets and a variety of delicious Carrington Farms products, I set out to make my favorite Oatmeal Cookie recipe a little bit healthier.
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Here is my recipe:
Oatmeal Chia Flax Cookies
- 1 cup packed light-brown sugar
- 1 cup beet sugar
- 1 stick softened butter
- 1/2 cup Carrington Farms Liquid Coconut Oil
- 3 eggs, room temperature
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 3 cups rolled oats
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose gluten free flour (I use Namaste)
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 cup Carrington Farms Flax Chia Blend
- 12 ounces chocolate, chopped into chunks, or 1 1/2 cups golden raisins
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine the brown sugar, granulated sugar, coconut oil and butter in an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Starting with the mixer on low speed and increasing until it is on medium, beat it until the mixture is creamy and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add the eggs and the vanilla extract, then scrape the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula, and mix again to combine.
- Combine the rolled oats, flour, baking soda, and flax chia blend in a large bowl, and stir to combine. Add the dry mixture to the butter mixture, then mix on low speed just to combine, about 10 to 15 seconds. Remove the bowl from mixer stand, and stir in your choice of chocolate chips or golden raisins.
- Spray the baking pans with a light coating of coconut oil cooking spray. Use a large spoon to drop balls of dough onto the cookie sheet. Gently form into balls if they separate. Arrange the balls of dough about 4 inches apart on baking pans. Bake until golden and just set, about 16-18 minutes for large cookies and 14 minutes for smaller cookies. Remove from oven and let cool on pan for 4 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
Let’s get cooking!
First, get out your ingredients and preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
Next, combine the brown sugar, granulated beet sugar, coconut oil and butter in an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment.
Starting with the mixer on low speed and increasing until it is on medium, beat it until the mixture is creamy and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add the eggs and the vanilla extract, then scrape the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula, and mix again to combine.
Mix the rolled oats, flour, baking soda, and flax chia blend in a large bowl, and stir to combine. Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture, then mix on low speed just to combine, about 10 to 15 seconds.
It will look like this…
Remove the bowl from mixer stand and stir in your choice of chocolate chips or golden raisins. My kids voted for chocolate chips this time…
We used a mixture of Enjoy Life mini chocolate chips and chunks.
Spray the baking pans with a light coating of coconut oil cooking spray. Use a large spoon to drop balls of dough onto the cookie sheet. Gently form into balls if they separate. Arrange the balls of dough about 4 inches apart on baking pans.
Bake until golden and just set, about 16-18 minutes for large cookies and 14 minutes for smaller cookies.
They should look something like this…
Remove from oven and let the cookies cool on pan for 4 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
Serve cookies while still warm if you like them gooey. These become crispy at room temperature and are a little crumbly, but extremely delicious!
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