Granola chocolate chip cookies

I had planned to go for another low-fat recipe for this week's bake. However, I was a little short of time for a cake - some friends were coming over to our neighbourhood for lunch and I wanted to quickly prepare something in case we decided to come back to ours for coffee (you should always have something at home to give to guests, rights?). I was tempted to go for the peanut butter choc chip cookies from the Primrose bakery cookbook because I have made them before and they are truly yummy, but in the spirit of being adventurous I decided to try the granola white choc chip cookies instead (from the same book).

I have wanted to try these for a while, but granola is not cheap, and somehow it felt like a bit of a waste to use it for cookies. The book suggests making your own and includes a recipe for this, but I still haven't gotten round to that (will certainly write about it if I do anyway). So I bought probably one of the cheapest boxes of granola I could find that still looked pretty tasty (in case I wanted to eat it for breakfast) and came in one of my favourite flavours - apple and cinnamon. I really dislike white chocolate (its not chocolate, its sugar!) so instead I used some regular chocolate chips, but not that many so as to not overpower the granola flavours. The recipe also calls for almonds, which I did not include.

(I quick clearly need to start taking better pictures!). 

Ok they do look a bit wonky, but I was in a rush so I basically just dumped a spoonful of dough on the baking sheet rather than make nice symmetrical cookie balls. They also look a bit paler than I expected - I contemplated leaving them in for longer than the recommended 10 minutes, but then you run the risk of them drying up.

Verdict: I thought they were pretty tasty and the right level of chewiness, with a good crunch  and a nice cinnamon-y flavour from the granola. Next time I would probably either opt for a plainer granola and add more choc chips (or maybe just oats, that's a classic too although you lose the crunch ), or omit the choc chips and use a tasty granola like this one. 

PS. I debating whether it was ok to post my 'adapted' recipe here. I read through some articles about the rules of copyright and recipe re-posting.  Although technically what I made is sufficiently different from the recipe in the book, I feel that it is a bit wrong to republish something that is not freely available without permission (my line of work has probably instilled some copyright guilt in me...). At least for now anyway.