Corona Cookies
I really didn’t want to end up calling them Corona Cookies… but it’s what I’ve been calling them. In our house, the name has stuck. Sorry. Though the cookie name isn’t spectacular, what they represent to me is special. They are also delicious.
Our new normal?
Rob and I live in Boston, MA. As with most folks these days, the new normal is starting to become normal… I’ve shifted in my cooking and grocery shopping habits a lot in these last 8-ish weeks… Once upon a time I sought new recipes, new ingredients, new anything! I was constantly experimenting with food and no two weeks were the same. I stuck to regimented meal plans and was essentially a planning addict. After a long day, my most favorite thing to do (besides spending time with Rob) was browsing Instacart to see what ingredients existed for recipes I hadn’t yet dreamed of. Ah! Those were the days.
Fast forward to now. I basically have 3 categories of food: pantry items, vegetables, and meat. As long as I can obtain a food distribution in those 3 categories, I seem to be able to put meals on the table. It sounds terrible. It’s not. Actually, some of the best meals I’ve had recently have not come from recipes. They come from using ingredients I have on hand so that nothing goes to waste.
Cookies, cookies, cookies…
Rob and I were craving cookies. I have no idea why. I couldn’t find a recipe that encompassed our available ingredients (and our nutrition needs) so I was pleasantly surprised when this concoction seemed to work out! Wow! If you don’t know us – Rob and I live with Type 1 Diabetes so we don’t usually keep white or brown sugar in our house and Rob has a serious egg allergy. Rob loves oatmeal and I love peanut butter. Sooo… when I opened our most recent tub of Quaker Oats Quick 1-Minute Oats, there was a lovely recipe for Vanishing Oatmeal Cookies:
However…
I made some serious (very serious!!) adjustments! The Quaker recipe was simply my starting point. Enjoy!
Corona Cookies
Ingredients
- ½ cup peanut butter
- ½ cup apple sauce
- ½ cup cottage cheese
- ½ cup stevia
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1½ cups all purpose flour
- 3 cups oatmeal
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350°F. Combine peanut butter, cottage cheese, apple sauce, stevia, and vanilla in a large bowl.
- Add combined flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and oatmeal. Mix well.
- Mix in chocolate chips.
- Drop dough by rounded tablespoons onto greased cookie sheet (I like to use parchment paper instead). Gently flatten with fork.
- Bake 10 minutes or. until golden brown on the edges. Cool for 5 minutes.
Notes
Store in a tightly covered container.
Before baking, depress cookies with your thumb and add a small blob of jam for thumbprint cookies!
