WW Cranberry Apple Oatmeal Cookies Recipe

4.64 from 25 votes

WW Cranberry Apple Oatmeal Cookies Recipe

Healthy and delicious, these skinny cranberry apple oatmeal cookies bake up soft and chewy with just the right amount of sweetness and spice.

Prep Time15

Cook Time15

Total Time30

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: apple oatmeal cookies, cranberry oatmeal cookies, low fat oatmeal cookies

Servings:

Author: Martha McKinnon | Simple Nourished Living

Equipment

Ingredients

1/2 cup whole wheat pastry flour or white wheat flour
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1-1/2 cups old-fashioned oats, preferably toasted
4 tablespoons butter, softened
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 apple, peeled, cored and grated
1 large egg
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/2 cup dried cranberries

Instructions

Place rack in the center of the oven. Preheat oven to 350F degrees. Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper or spray them with non-stick cooking spray.
In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking soda and salt. Stir in the oats.
In another bowl, beat the butter and sugar with an electric mixer on medium speed, until light and fluffy. Add the apple, egg and vanilla and continue beating until well combined.
With the mixer on low, gradually beat in the flour mixture until blended, then stir in the cranberries.
Drop the cookie dough by tablespoonfuls about 1 inch apart onto the prepared cookie sheets, making a total of 24 cookies.
With the back of a spoon, or your damp fingers, flatten each cookie.
Bake, one cookie sheet at a time in the center of your oven, until lightly browned, 12 to 15 minutes.
Remove from the oven and let the cookies cool on the cookie sheets placed on wire racks for 2 to 3 minutes. Then transfer the cookies to the wire racks to cool completely.

Notes

Serving size: 1 cranberry apple oatmeal cookie

WW Points: 2

Check your WW Points for this recipe and track it in the WW app.
(Must be logged into WW on a smartphone or tablet.)

3 SmartPoints (Green plan)

3 SmartPoints (Blue plan)

2 SmartPoints (Purple plan)

2 PointsPlus (Old plan)

These cranberry apple oatmeal cookies will not spread during baking, so be sure to flatten them before putting them in the oven.

I used 1/8 teaspoon baking soda and 1/8 teaspoon baking powder with good results.

Try different spices: cardamom, allspice, ginger, orange zest, etc.

Different dried fruits: substitute the dried cranberries with raisins, dried apricots, dates, dried cherries, etc.

You can decrease the calories and WW Points even further when making these cookies by substituting zero calorie sweetener for the brown sugar. Right now, I am really enjoying baking with Truvia Sweet Complete Brown which is a calorie-free sweetener with a slight hint of molasses that measures cup-for-cup like brown sugar.

Other popular brown sugar replacements include Swerve Brown, Mankato Brown Monk Fruit Sweetener and Splenda Brown Sugar Blend.

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