Cobble Creek Farm Chocolate Chipperz!

     These cookies are a healthy alternative to your average, store bought chocolate chip cookies! They contain tasty zucchini, oats and applesauce (in replace of butter or shortening)!! These cookies are not only nutritious, but they also fill you up. YUM!

Yields 80 cookies.

Ingredients:

-4.5 cups flour
-2 tsp. baking soda
-2 tsp. salt
-1 cup butter
-3/4 cup brown sugar
-1 tsp. water
-2 tsp. vanilla
-4 eggs
-2 cups grated zucchini (or yellow squash)
-12 oz. Chocolate Chips
-1 1/2 cups oatmeal

Directions: 

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

2. Sift flour, baking soda and salt, set aside. In a separate bowl, stir butter and sugars until creamy. Add water, vanilla and eggs. Mix in flour, then add zucchini, *applesauce, chocolate chips and oatmeal.

3. Bake at 375 degrees for 10-12 minutes. Allow to cool and enjoy with

*(Add 1/2 cup applesauce as well. The zucchini and applesauce replace 1 cup of butter/shortening and can make the cookies more moist. Sugar is cut in half, but can be adjusted as you like.)