Remember last week when I was talking about my “cooking lesson”?  Well, for our dessert, I was looking for a healthy recipe that we could still count as dessert.  In fact, these cookies were so good that I saved some to bring home to the family this weekend and they devoured them! 

Sister M says that they aren’t very “oaty” so if you don’t love Oatmeal Raisin cookies, I would still encourage you to give these a try.  The other problem (if you want to call it a true problem) is that the dough is pretty stiff so I used my hands to fully incorporate the blueberries without crushing them by batter.  Using a spoon will just never work as well as your appendages.

To be honest, cookies should take you no more than 30 minutes from start to finish.  They are only 8-12 minutes to bake (usually) and really shouldn’t be difficult to whip up.  That’s what I was trying to show my “student” this week.  Anyone can make cookies.  And yes, while you do need to get the ingredients and their measurements right, we don’t need to spend 5 minutes measuring and packing brown sugar.  Again, confidence.  Don’t disregard the recipe entirely but we don’t need to measure that teaspoon of vanilla either.  Cooking is supposed to be fun and if you can let go and have fun, well, you’ll be making more recipes like this one!

Blueberry Oatmeal Cookies (adapted from here)