Recipe Ingredients
Making these delicious oatmeal cookies is pretty straightforward and you need only a handful of ingredients to make them. As always make sure to check the full list of ingredients in the recipe card below.
- all-purpose flour – you can also substitute with whole wheat flour to make them even more wholesome
- oatmeal – it’s best to use rolled oats for these cookies. You can also use quick oats but the cookies will be a bit softer
- apple – any kind of apple will work in this recipe, so pick your favorite. Changing the apple for pear is also a great idea
- egg – you will need one medium egg
- honey – the only sweetener used in this recipe is 2 tablespoons of honey. This can be replaced with maple syrup if you prefer
The cookies are pretty much perfect as they are but if you want you could add some warm spices.
How To Make Healthy Apple Oatmeal Cookies
Making these delicious cookies is quite easy. You start by adding all the dry ingredients to a bowl. Now add the butter and rub it into the dry ingredients with your fingers. Cut the apple into small cubes and add the diced apples into the flour mixture.
In a separate bowl you whisk honey, egg and vanilla until the honey melts into the other ingredients. Now add the wet ingredients to the flour and incorporate. It will be quite a sticky dough and that is exactly what you want.
Now take a large baking sheet and line it with parchment paper. Using two spoons, divide the dough into 16 small mounds and gently flatten them a bit. They won’t really spread out too much so you don’t need a huge gap between the cookies.
Bake the cookies for roughly 15 minutes in a preheated oven or until golden brown. Let them cool down on a wire rack and enjoy!
