Milk and Cookies Anyone??

First - greetings! I am sorry it has taken me sooo long to get a new post written :( I have had a lot going on and it's been all I can do to get the cooking done and meet my other obligations. So I have decide to update one saved sentence at time - LOL!
Sweets have been one of my down falls for most of my life - LOL! It's not until I hit my 30's did the my sweet tooth start to catch up with me. You have heard me rail against high fructose corn syrup and this is not another rant against it, though I did see another MANIPULATIVE tv ad the other day......
Most everyone has made cookies before - it's a right of passage in the kitchen whether you are a child, baker, Mom, Dad, etc... But how about really good all natural cookies?? Homemade is better than store bought in terms of knowing what is going in your cookies. But what about knowing what is going into the ingredients that is going into your cookies?? LOL - if you don't care, don't bother to read further, it's no big deal. But I do have a good recipe at the end ;)
Instead of white granulated (over processed) sugar, I use either raw sugar (the coarse variety) or evaporated cane juice (organic cane sugar). ECJ had us going one time when we were reading a recipe! We couldn't figure out what exotic ingredient it was - LOL! It was sugar cane, but not the white processed stuff! I use also organic brown sugar, whole wheat flour, grass fed chicken eggs, real grass fed cow butter instead of margarine, organic chocolate chips, organic rolled oats and coconut oil instead of shortening. The end result - a delicious chocolate chip oatmeal cookie that is good for you! Well, good for you in terms of not using preprocessed or artificial and good for your sweet tooth soul! These are awesome cookies and paired with a glass of cold fresh low pasteurized, non homogenized milk and you have a delicious "traditional" (for the last century or so) snack! It's not full of vegetables kind of good for you - but it's an enjoyable good for that allows you to feel good about what you and your family are eating. Below is the recipe:

1/2 cup of organic evaporated cane juice
1/2 cup of organic brown sugar
1/4 cup of sweet cream butter
1/4 of coconut oil (a little more if you find your mix is too dry)
1/2 teaspoon of baking soda
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon of vanilla
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 egg
1 1/2 cup of natural rolled oats
1 cup of whole wheat flour
1 cup of organic chocolate chips or raisins

Heat oven to 375, drop cookies 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 10-13 minutes or until done. You can bake longer for crisper cookies or less for chewy.

Enjoy!