Oatmeal Pumpkin White Chocolate Chip Cookies and Plated!

The food that came in the box all packaged up

Tonight we tried Plated for the first time! My dad gave us a gift to use it and so we ordered two meals for the week and have more coming later.  The way it works is you go on the website and pick meals you want for the week.  I chose 2 per week because you have to order at least 4 plates per box.  You can order as much as you want.

When you look at the meal choices they include the ingredients, if it's gluten free, meat free, etc.  and the calorie count.  You then select your delivery day for Tuesday or Friday.  It will arrive the day you selected in a box with all the ingredients and the instructions! It tells you the few things you need like salt, a baking sheet, etc. when you chose what you're going to get that week.

The first one we tried were the Asian Duck Tacos. They were VERY good and it was so easy to put together.

Left: finished tacos. Top right: ingredients are all labeled. Bottom right: scoring the duck breast

We have Beef Moussaka for later in the week. This can be kind of pricey but it was a very nice gift!

I want to share with you a pumpkin cookie recipe I created this week. I'm going to call them 

Oatmeal Pumpkin White Chocolate Chip Cookies

These are ALMOST Vegan 

(just leave out white chocolate chips and I know some vegans don't eat honey, that can be left out also)

I really wanted to bake.  I didn't have all the right stuff for every recipe I found so I decided to give take some recipes and change them around. These were pretty good! The original recipe wanted eggs and butter but I substituted banana for the egg and applesauce for the butter. I also made some other changes like using less brown sugar, using less pumpkin, using whole wheat flour, etc. I'm sure if you cooked them with the butter and egg they'd be a different consistency but these were SO good. I brought them to watch American Horror Story with some of my RAs and we could NOT stop eating them. They are about 90 calories a cookie. 

Here is the recipe!

Oatmeal Pumpkin White Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients: 

1 c applesauce (unsweetened)

1/2 c unpacked brown sugar

1/2 splenda sugar blend

1 T honey

1 mashed banana

1 tsp vanilla

a little over 1/2 a can of pumpkin 

2 c whole wheat flour

1/3 c old fashioned oats

1 1/4 tsp baking powder

1 1/2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

1 tsp salt

1/2 tsp nutmeg

1/2 bag of Nestle white chocolate chips

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees

In a stand mixer, use the paddle attachment to beat the applesauce, brown sugar, sugar blend, and honey on medium high for about 5 minutes.  Scrape the sides with a rubber spatula.

While this is mixing mix the flour, oats, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger, salt, and nutmeg together in a separate bowl with a whisk.

Next, add the mashed banana and vanilla on medium low letting it mix until incorporated. 

Turn the mixer to low, take the dry ingredients and add them to the wet ingredients in small amounts in the bowl alternating with the pumpkin, scraping the sides in between additions (basically put like 1/2 the dry, 1/2 the pumpkin, 1/2 the dry, 1/2 the pumpkin). 

When mixed use a cookie scooper to put the dough onto a cookie sheet sprayed with nonstick spray (I use Pam coconut oil). Don't put them on parchment paper like in the picture, it didn't work very well.

Bake the cookies for about 22-25 minutes until golden then cool! Makes about 32 cookies.

Voila! Enjoy! I'm sorry there were no after pictures, we ate them all!