Healthy Super Crunchy Oatmeal Cookies

Ingredients

• ½ cups All-purpose Flour
• 2 cups Quick Cooking Oatmeal
• ¼ teaspoons Baking Powder
• ¼ teaspoons Baking Soda
• ¼ cups Golden Raisin (soaked In Apple Juice For 15 Minutes And Drained)
• ¼ cups Grated Chocolate Bar (I Use Whittakers From Australia)
• ¼ cups Chopped Almonds
• 2-½ ounces, weight Unsalted Butter
• 1 Tablespoon Olive Oil
• ½ cups Granulated White Sugar
• 2 whole Egg Whites
• ¼ teaspoons Vanilla Extract
• ¼ teaspoons Lemon, Rind

Preparation Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 180ºC (about 355ºF). MIx the flour, oatmeal, baking powder, baking soda, raisins, grated chocolate, and almonds into a bowl.

2. In another bowl, beat butter, oil and sugar until pale and fluffy. Mix in egg whites, vanilla and lemon rind. Mix at medium speed until just smooth.

3. Add in the flour mixture to the butter mixture.

4. Using a 1-tablespoon measuring spoon, drop dough onto parchment-lined baking sheets, spacing each scoop about 2 inches apart. Bake until edges are golden, about 15 minutes. If you want crispier cookies, bake around 20 minutes. Keep your eye on the bottom of the cookies, you don’t want it to burn.

Note: Remember put the pan in the middle of the oven. If you are using 2 pans, evenly space the racks in the oven, i.e. one in the upper 1/3 and the other in the lower 1/3, swapping each pan in the middle of cooking.

Let the cookies sit in the pan for 5 minutes after taking them out from the oven. Then cool in a wire rack.