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Granola Cookies with (Optional) Chocolate Chips

April 3, 2015 by Allison Hudson

Happy First Friday of April! Aka the first Friday of the month, when a health(ier) cookie is featured here at From the Athlete’s Kitchen. This concept came to be when I resolved to find a middle ground between over the top sugar bombs and clumps of sawdust claiming to be cookies. In March, a few less successful granola cookie tests finally led to the angle of modifying an oatmeal cookie recipe, namely by replacing the oats with granola. I turned […]

Categories: Baked, Cookies, Desserts • Tags: Cookie Recipe, Cookies, Desserts, Food Photography, Granola Cookies, healthier cookies, Recipe

Double Chocolate Cookies with Orange Zest

February 6, 2015 by Allison Hudson

For a little while now, I’ve dabbled with ‘healthy’ cookie recipes and have come to one main conclusion – this is by and large a recipe for dissapointment. There are a myriad of ‘Healthy Cookie’ recipes floating around in the ether, ranging from one that includes two sticks of butter to those that look like a haystack (and not the lovely coconut kind) and taste like a two by four. And after testing several HC concepts with no break for […]

Categories: Baked, Cookies, Desserts • Tags: Cookies, Double Chocolate, Food Photography, Orange Zest, Recipe

Healthy Holiday Biscotti

December 17, 2014 by Allison Hudson

Happy Holidays from From the Athlete’s Kitchen! Oh, and happy new name for my blog! To celebrate both, it’s cookie time!! I’ll feature cookies this week and next. Today it’s biscotti, which I love for many reasons, not least of which is that by design, biscotti is a little more palatable from a waistline-watching perspective than other cookies. There is little to no oil in traditional biscotti, and you can use a variety of mix-ins for flavor, allowing for a […]

Categories: Baked, Cookies, Desserts • Tags: Biscotti, Cookies, Food, Healthy Baking, Photography, Photography (2), Recipes