Campfire Oatmeal Cookies

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Magic Oatmeal Cookies

Never underestimate the power of a good cookie.  Chewy, gooey, and studded with chocolate chips, walnuts, and dried fruits!  They are a staple around here, simply because we usually have all the ingredients on hand anyway, and if we do not feel like eating those ingredients individually, we incorporate them in cookies.

Neither one of us is a big fan of oatmeal, but we do manage to eat it in our cookies!  So this is a perfectly acceptable and "healthy" *cough cough* way to fulfill our daily quota of whole grains, no?

Recipe
Campfire Oatmeal Cookies
3/4 cup of vegan butter, like Earth Balance*
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup turbinado sugar
2 tsps vanilla extract
1 eggs
1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
2 cups old fashioned oats
1 1/4 cups chocolate chips
1 1/4 cups walnuts, chopped roughly
1 1/4 cups dried fruit of your choosing (raisins, apricots, cherries, dates, etc., will do, or you can even mix and match)

*I don't like the taste of butter, but if you don't mind, feel free to use just butter.
Preheat the oven to 350 F.  Mix the vegan butter and sugars well, until even.  Add vanilla and egg.  Mix flour, salt, and baking soda well.  Stir in the oats, chocolate chips, walnuts, and dried fruits.  Mix the wet ingredients with the dry ingredients.  Form large balls (like ice cream scoop sized) and drop them onto a wax paper lined cookie sheet.  Bake for about 12 - 15 minutes or until golden brown.  Cool and then transfer to a rack.
Enjoy!

Just so you can see the inside gooey-ness