Best Gail Scotts Healthy Cookie Bars Recipes

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Provided by Gail Glickman Horwood

Yield Makes approximately 48 cookies

Number Of Ingredients 8

1 cup plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 stick unsalted butter
6 tablespoons granulated sugar
6 tablespoons brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg
1 cup semi-sweet morsels

Steps:

1. Preheat oven to 375°F. Prepare baking sheets by spraying lightly with Pam.
2. Cream butter, both sugars, and vanilla. Beat in egg. Add baking soda and flour mixing only until smooth. Fold in chocolate chips. Use 16x24-inch baking sheets and drop cookies in 3 rows of 4.
3. Bake cookies, two baking sheets at a time. After 5 minutes take cookies out of the oven and rap on the stovetop until they deflate. Then return sheets to oven, placing the top sheet on the bottom rack, and the bottom sheet on the top rack. Continue to bake until cookies are golden brown, 4-6 more minutes.
4. Transfer immediately from cookie sheet to wire rack for cooling.

GAIL SCOTT'S HEALTHY COOKIE BARS image

Yield 10 people

Number Of Ingredients 15

Grain (2 cups) old fashioned oats quick oats crisp brown rice granola
Sweetener (3/4 cup) honey agave nectar brown rice syrup pure maple syrup
Nut Butter (1 cup) natural peanut butter almond butter cashew butter sunflower nut butter
Seeds or wheat product (1 cup except for 1/4 chia seeds) ground flaxseed whole sesame seeds wheat bran wheat germ pepitas(pumpkin seeds) chia seeds
Powdered protein (1 cup) vanilla whey protein powder nonfat dry milk powder
Nuts or Chips (1 cup) chopped walnuts almonds cashews sunflower nuts dark chocolate chips carob chips
Dried Fruit (1 cup) raisins dried cherries dried gogi berries chopped dried apricots chopped dates chopped prunes chopped figs
A winning mix?
QUICK OATS
HONEY
ALMOND BUTTER
WHEAT GERM
VANILLA WHEY PROTEIN POWDER
1/2 CASHEWS 1/2 WALNUTS
CHOPPED PRUNES

Steps:

Pick one ingredient from each group. Mix with your hands; do not use as much sweetener as is called for. Put the almond or peanut butter in the microwave on low to soften to make it easier to mix. More fruit will make it sweeter.