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I'm naming these cookies ultimate because they have everything. They're made with oats, peanut butter, chocolate chips, zucchini (of course) and they are amazingly soft and chewy. I just do not like hard, dry cookies. I do not like them Sam-I-am. Now these, I would eat with a fox and in a box, on a train and in the rain...yeah, yeah...okay. You get the idea.
Ultimate Zucchini Cookies (adapted from here)
Makes 3 1/2 dozen cookies.
1/2 cup butter, softened to room temperature
1/2 cup peanut butter (I used natural)
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup rolled oats (not quick oats)
1 1/2 cup shredded zucchini
3/4 cup chocolate chips
In the bowl of your electric mixer, beat butter, peanut butter and both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla and beat well. In another bowl, combine flour, baking soda, salt and oats. Gradually add flour mixture to mixing bowl and beat until well combined. Fold in shredded zucchini and chocolate chips. Drop by tablespoon onto greased cookie sheets.
Bake at 350 degrees for 7-10 minutes or until the edges turn light brown. This is important: because they are a soft cookie, let them cool completely on the cookie sheets. Remove them when they are cool and store leftover cookies in the fridge between layers of wax paper (if there are any).
i can't wait to try this recipe.
ReplyDeleteOoo. We are going away this weekend for a few days. These will be perfect for a half-healthy snack/dessert! I was planning on making normal choco chip cookies but these will be much better. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteGood pictures! (I bet the cookies are good, too.)
ReplyDeleteThese sound amazing! Will. Make. Soon. I am obsessed with zucchini lately...not sure why. But I'm not complaining! :)
ReplyDeleteI am also starting to can some. Your stories have been most helpful and encouraging!
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ReplyDeleteThese sound really good...and good for you...mostly. :)
ReplyDeleteI don't like crunchy cookies either...if I want crunch I'll eat a cracker!
I wonder what my son would say about the green things in the cookie. Oh, I know, he'd say, "What are the green things in the cookie?"
ReplyDeleteAnd he'd scrunch up his nose.
But it might be worth a try!
Mmm, now that's my kind of cookie. Mrs. H is going to like this recipe.:)
ReplyDeleteAfter the last cookie recipe you shared, there is no way I am not making these! Thanks! :)
ReplyDeleteYum! I love zucchini bread and these cookies look like little bites of goodness. Thank you for the recipe.
ReplyDeleteDo these taste like regular choc. chip cookies? or does the zucchini taste come through to add to the regular ccc taste?
ReplyDeleteChuck,
ReplyDeleteI think they taste very different because of the oats and peanut butter. The zucchini helps keep the cookies moist, but the zucchini taste is not dominant. I hope this answers your question:-).
I'd like to use greek yogurt for the butter.
ReplyDeleteAnn
Thanks for another way to use zucchini! Just made this and added a smidge of cinnamon and then got crazy and added cocoa powder to last batch! yum. Any reason why these need to be refrigerated other than to hide them?
ReplyDeleteSherrill,
ReplyDeleteI kept them in the fridge because they were so soft (and to keep them out of my line of sight for most of the time:-)).