Thursday, January 20, 2011

Oatmeal Cookies With Cranberries and Chocolate Chips

Cake. It's all I think about these days. I dream about it. I eat a healthy lunch, and I want to sully it with a funfetti boxed cake with funfetti icing. Could it be that my mind is filling itself with thoughts of cake in order to defer thinking about the baby coming in 11 weeks, 1 day? Probably. I'm ok with that for now. I've not indulged as much (thankfully!) - those Dove dark chocolate squares have kept most of my cravings at bay. But sometimes, a girl just needs some cake. 

Sadly, today is not that day. I made these Oatmeal Cookies With Cranberries and Chocolate Chips from Women's Health. They were tasty and also functioned as a craving curber. Can't say that they are a perfect substitute when you need a decadent dessert, but they certainly work as cookies, as opposed to 'healthy' cookies. Know what I mean?

The end product is sort of a mixture between granola and a cookie. But anything with chocolate chips takes it out of the healthy category in my mind so this is definitely not granola. I might even add more chocolate chips next time. But the cranberry/chocolate combo worked perfectly and I would definitely make these again. Maybe with white chocolate chips next time?? 


(Sorry no picture- these cookies are not very photogenetic and my iphone sucks for food porn.)
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8 comments:

  1. LoulouJanuary 20, 2011 at 1:33 PM

    is your iphone good for regular porn?

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  2. MichelleCJanuary 20, 2011 at 1:56 PM

    HAHAHA lou! {you know it! sooo just kidding}

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  3. bethJanuary 20, 2011 at 2:01 PM

    there's gotta be some kooky LA spot for "healthy" cakes... i'll be looking into this before my visit next week.

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  4. LoulouJanuary 20, 2011 at 2:03 PM

    "healthy" cakes... lame.

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  5. MichelleCJanuary 20, 2011 at 2:06 PM

    hahaha nothing vegan. i'm not down with that.

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  6. bethJanuary 20, 2011 at 2:08 PM

    when i was little my mom used to make these chocolate pudding pies with graham cracker crust-- we could totally remake that with fatfree/sugarfree chocolate jello pudding and the low fat graham cracker crust.

    some vegan cakes are really good--- they still have chocolate and flour and sugar! just no butter or eggs. those scones that i sent you are heatlhy, yummy, and dairy-free, too!

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  7. LoulouJanuary 20, 2011 at 2:10 PM

    i had some of those scones in LA and they were delish!

    i'll have that pudding graham cracker treat!! mmmmm....remember the pudding with the crunched up oreos that you'd put in a pot with gummie worms?!?

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  8. MichelleCJanuary 20, 2011 at 2:15 PM

    oh i'm totally down with the jello/graham crackers. let's do it.

    not with the gummy worms, though.

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