The Haduken Brothers' Oatmeal Cookies

* 1 cup whole wheat flour
* 1 cup unbleached all purpose flour
* 4 tsps baking powder
* 2/3 cup unsweetened apple sauce
* 1 Tbs olive oil
* 1 1/3 cup brown sugar
* 2 eggs (laid by your own pet chicken, if possible)
* 2 tsps vanilla
* 1 cup old fashioned oats
* As many chocolate chips as you can get in the mixing bowl before Mom yells, "Ahhh, God!  Stop!  STOP!  That is more than enough!"


1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  In a largeish stainless steel bowl (so that Mom doesn't freak out about you possibly breaking her pretty pink ceramic bowls) add ingredients one at a time, mixing merrily all the while.  Try to get as little of the mixture as possible all over the counter tops, yourself, and/or your brother.

2) Line baking sheets with parchment paper.  Mom used to think parchment paper was a wasteful environmental assault but after she used it once and learned that everything is better with parchment paper she never baked cookies without it again and focused on other ways she could maintain a dainty carbon footprint.

3) Use a spoon to drop the dough onto the sheet. Do not lick the spoon until all of the dough you will be baking has been transferred to the baking sheet.  Dough drops should be placed an inch or two apart on the sheet to prevent the dough from forming into one, giant, cookie; which, honestly, isn't the worst thing that could happen in the world, so don't worry too much about it.

4) Have Mom put the sheet in the oven even though you really want to be the boss of the oven.  Bake cookies for about 15 minutes, until lightly browned.

5) Cool on wire racks.  Store in clear glass cookie jar.  A big, old pickle jar works well for this.  If you store the cookies in an opaque container nobody will remember they exist and Mom will find them molding weeks later.  She'll have to compost all of them.  In a clear container they will be eaten so quickly that you might get to bake a second batch later the very same day as you baked the first batch!

6) Eat at a table or running around the yard.  Mom has better things to do than spend her life vacuuming up cookie crumbs off of all of the carpets in the house so keep the cookies in these two areas ONLY.


The Haduken Brothers are five year old, Israel and two year old, Basil.  They love baking (or Making, as Basil calls it) lots of yummy treats to eat themselves and to share with family, friends, and their cats.  They are more likely to eat whole grains when they prepare them themselves and mix lots of chocolate into the recipes.