Rachael Ray: Audrey Johns’ Giant Breakfast Cookie Recipe

Rachael Ray: Audrey Johns’ Giant Breakfast Cookie

Can you imagine losing losing 150 pounds without being hungry? Author of “Lose Weight by Eating” Audrey Johns explained that for her, it was all about using real, whole ingredients. She was eating the wrong foods, while starving herself, until she changed the way she was eating and lost more than 100 pounds in just one year. She attributed her weight loss to her work in the kitchen and her recipes like her Giant Breakfast Cookie. She created a healthy recipe that allows you to feel like you’re eating dessert, when you’re actually eating what’s essentially a bowl of oatmeal in cookie form!

To get the recipe for these healthy breakfast cookies, click next page.

Rachael Ray: Audrey Johns’ Giant Breakfast Cookie Recipe Ingredients

• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 2 tbsp unsalted butter – at room temperature
• 1 large egg
• 1/2 C applesauce
• 1/2 C dried cranberries
• 3/4 C all-purpose flour
• zest of 1 orange
• 1/2 C packed brown sugar
• 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
• 2 C old-fashioned rolled oats
• 1/4 C sliced almonds

Rachael Ray: Audrey Johns’ Giant Breakfast Cookie Recipe Directions

1. In a small bowl, combine the baking soda, flour, and orange zest
2. In a large bowl of the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, whipe the sugar and butter until pale and fluffy
3. Mix in the egg, then the applesauce, vanilla, and 1/3 C water
4. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and whisk until combined
5. Mix in the cranberries, oats, and almonds until just combined, but don’t overmix or you’ll be left with tough cookies
6. Cover the dough with plastic wrap, then store in the fridge for at least 15 minutes, or overnight
7. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
8. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper
9. Use an ice cream scoop to put tennis ball-size balls of cookie dough onto the lined baking sheets, leaving 1 1/2 inches between each cookie for them to spread
10. Bake for 15-18 minutes, until golden brown
11. Transfer the cookies to a wire rack so they can cool (if you don’t have a wire rack, carefully lift the parchment paper with the cookies on it to the counter-top to cool)