I was invited to be a part of the Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap last month and of course I said yes! Whenever food bloggers get together there is something delicious involved. Each person was given the task of making 12 cookies and then carefully shipping them to 3 other food bloggers. The chocolate biscotti from Little House, Big Alaska made it to us on the East Coast in perfect condition! My kids were SO excited to be eating cookies from Alaska. We received two other delicious treats, a salted rolo thumbprint cookie from Take Two Tapas and also a raspberry almond thumbprint cookie from Pale Yellow. Every day my kids would run out to get the mail and wonder if there would be cookies inside. It was really an exciting time to be the Mailman in our house.
We chose to make Graham Cookies and then mailed ours to 3 lovely ladies, Kate’s Recipe Box, Hall Nesting and Sarah Cooks the Books. We enjoyed baking love into our cookies (my daughter says she can taste when there is enough love inside) and today I am sharing the Graham cookies recipe with you. The base for this cookie is my favorite graham crackers from Mary’s Gone Crackers. I am not sure you can buy these graham crackers anymore, but they are by far my favorite. I really hope they come back in stock at my store soon. Feel free to substitute any graham crackers you have in your house. These graham cookies are a family favorite and a great way to use up the leftover grahams when making smores.
Graham Chocolate Chip Cookies for the win
Ingredients
- 4T. butter
- 1/2 cup applesauce
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 T. vanilla paste
- 1 egg
- 1.5 cups graham cracker crumbs
- 3/4 cup flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Cream together the butter, applesauce and brown sugar until creamy.
- Add in vanilla and egg and combine.
- Slowly stir in all your dry ingredients.
- Lastly stir in the chocolate chips.
- Bake on a non-stick pan for 6-8 minutes. Cookies look soft when they come out but they harden as they cool.
Those cookies look so good! I started doing cookie swaps a couple of years ago, and the first thing I learned was that you need a recipe that’s easy and fast but that is also delicious. Love it!
You are so right! Cookie swaps are the best. I hope you have a happy holiday!
Adding these to our baking list! This year we are giving out some sweet treats to friends and family to help them get in the Christmas spirit and this would be the perfect addition to our list!
Thank you! I hope your family and friends love these cookies as much as we do. Happy holidays!
I love participating in cookie exchanges. Not only do you get to give your friends a delicious treat, but you get to learn so many new recipes!!
Cookie Swaps are the best! I agree with you, tasting all the goodies and gaining all the new recipes is priceless.
Oh These Look So Yummy I Can’t Wait To Make With My Girls!!
`I hope your family will enjoy our recipe this holiday. Thanks for stopping by!
These cookies sound really good! I have never heard of having graham crackers in cookies like this before.
Graham crackers are delicious in cookies! You must try them.
I think these sound so delicious! I will have to arrange a taste test 😉
I wish I could send you some to try!
Cookie swaps seem so fun! I’ve never done one, but I’ve always wanted to. These look great! I can’t wait to try this recipe out!
You must sign up for a cookie swap! You can do one with other bloggers and you each send each other some holiday cookies. It is so much fun!
This sounds super fun! I wish I could participate next time. I love trying out different choco chip cookie recipes, so I’m definitley trying this one. Thanks for sharing.
This is a fun new twist on chocolate chip cookies! I hope you enjoy them as much as we did.
My kids loves to eat cookies. This is a great recipe to add on my list. Thanks for sharing your ideas.
Your recipe is so easy to follow and I love it. Sounds so delicious. Thank you for sharing your recipe.
Thank you for stopping by! I hope you try this recipe.
These look and sound so delicious! I love the flavor of graham crackers, so I can only imagine how good these taste. I bet they smell fantastic too!
These cookies do smell amazing when they are baking! I hope you give them a try.
Such a good recipe for cookies my two boys was a huge fan of cookies! I should try this for them
I bet your boys will love this recipe!
I am going to try this recipe this week. I have a cookie swap coming up soon. These will be a great addition to my platter.
These cookies are perfect for a cookie swap! I hope you add them to your recipes.
These look really good. I’ve never done a cookie swap before, but I really want to. I may need to start one this year!
It is so easy and so much fun to have a cookie swap! I hope you organize one with your family and friends.
These cookies sound divine. I am seeing so many sweets in my feed today which is making it tough to ignore my cravings. lol
December is a hard month to avoid sweets.
These sound really good! I’m going to try them out for sure!
Thanks Jess! I hope you enjoy them as much as we did!
Mmmm these sound delicious! Thanks for participating in the cookie exchange. 🙂
Thank you for organizing such a fun cookie swap, it was great fun!
Omg these cookies sound absolutely delicious!!! I just love anything gram!!! So yummy!!! Must give your recipe a try
Thank you so much! They really are so delicious. I hope you try this recipe.
These sounds absolutely delicious! I would love to try these kinds of cookies, and I love that you used applesauce in the recipe.
I try to make our cookies a bit healthy, but shhhh don’t tell my kids!
Oh man, these look super good! I love baking and these are the perfect cookie for a swap.
Thanks Debra! These cookies are super delicious. I hope you try them.
So yummy looking, perfect for a cookie swap. I love graham crackers, I can’t wait to try this twist on chocolate chip cookies.
Thanks! It is a fun way to eat chocolate chip cookies!
Another recipe to add to my sweets list! I think I’m going to gain weight this Holiday season. LOL. Thanks for the recipe!
Haha! We all will probably gain a bit of weight. Thanks for stopping by.
What a fun cookie! Just the other day, I thought about adding some graham cracker crumbs to a batch of cookies. Now I have to try it – yum! 🙂
Great minds think alike! I hope you give it a try. Grahams are delicious in cookies.
I’ve never used grahams in cookie, but these look delightful. I’m going to try these with my grandchildren! #FBLCookieExchange
Thank you Tina and thanks for stopping by! I am coming to visit and see what you made for the cookie swap!
Your Graham Chocolate Chip Cookies look delicious. I’m always looking for new cookie recipes to add to my cookie platters.
Thank you so much! I hope you try this twist on a classic chocolate chip cookie.
I think that would taste awesome, I’m definitely going to try these out this holiday baking time… I’ll maybe even share them with others (don’t quote me on that though!) ha!
Thanks for the laugh! Once you see how good they are, you might not have any left to share.
I haven’t made my christmas cookies yet this year! These would be a fun and unique option for us!
This is a fun new recipe to try this year! I hope you enjoy them.
I am going to bookmark this because I haven’t tried using graham in my cookie recipes yet. This looks like something both kids and adults would enjoy! Got to check my pantry if I have all the recipes in stock.
All the kids and adults enjoyed this recipe in my house! Thanks for stopping by.