Well Rounded Oatmeal Cookies

Makes 16 cookie balls

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup all purpose flour
• 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
• 2 tablespoons raw wheat germ
• 2 tablespoons ground flax seed
• 1 heaping teaspoon baking powder
• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon

• 1 large egg
• 1/3 cup plus 1 tablespoon vegetable oil (made from soybeans)
• 1/4 cup natural unrefined sugar (1/2 cup if you like your cookies sweeter)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

• 3/4 cup old fashioned oats (not instant)
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans
• 1 tablespoon soy milk

Directions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees and place rack in the center of oven.

• Mix first 6 ingredients in a medium size bowl. Stir well with a wire whisk to incorporate all ingredients.

• In another medium bowl, mix egg, oil, sugar, and vanilla until well blended.

• Add flour mixture to egg mixture and stir well with a sturdy spoon.

• Add pecans and oats and mix well.

• At this point the mixture will be very stiff (Place moist dish rag underneath your mixing bowl to keep it from sliding around on the counter).

• Add 1 tablespoon of soy milk to mixture and stir well.

• Using a non stick cookie sheet or a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper, scoop out dough in 2 tablespoon measurements, roll dough into a ball and place on cookie sheet 1 inch apart.

• Cook in center of oven for 14 minutes.

• Remove immediately from oven and let cool on cookie sheet for 5 minutes.

• Place slightly cooled cookies on a wire cooling rack to cool completely.