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Chocolate trail mix cookies

06 Friday Feb 2015

Posted by Zoli in cookies, dessert, kids, kids lunchbox ideas, Vegetarian

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homemade trail mix cookies

homemade trail mix cookies

These are quick enough to be done in the morning before school. 15 or 20 minute prep time and 10 minute cooking time. If you have the time…

Ingredients
1 cup (2 sticks or 220g) unsalted butter, at room temperature or melted
1 cup light brown sugar
1/2 cup caster sugar
2 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla or almond extract
1 3/4 cups whole wheat or spelt flour
1/4 cup nut meal such as almond meal (or ground nuts)
1 cup quick-cooking or old-fashioned oats
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup of chopped nuts and seeds (I used a mix of cashew and hazelnut)
3/4 to 1 cup dried fruit (such as raisins, apricots, mango, cranberries)
fresh grated coconut (optional)
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

1) Preheat the oven to 325°F. Bake on cookie sheets or thin baking trays, lined with parchment paper.

2) Whisk the melted butter and sugars until smooth.

3) Add the eggs and vanilla and whisk together.

4) Add the dry ingredients and mix well with a wooden spoon.

5) Mix in the nuts, dried fruit and chocolate chips until everything is thoroughly incorporated. Scrape the bottom and sides of the bowl, and mix briefly.

6) Drop large teaspoons of cookie dough onto the trays and bake in the oven for about 10-12 minutes, watching that the bottoms don’t burn.

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Oh gluten free… what a cookie you are to me

11 Wednesday Sep 2013

Posted by Zoli in comfort food, cookies, dessert, gluten free, kids, kids lunchbox ideas, peanut free, quick and awesome, snacks, Vegetarian

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chocolate chips, cookies, dessert, gluten free, kids lunch box, no flour cookies, oatmeal cookies, sunflower cookies, trader joes, vegetarian

gluten free oatmeal cookies

I am never excited saying ‘gluten free’. It sounds so pedestrian, so sterile, so unhomecookedfoodery. Maybe it’s music to someone’s ears. Not mine, though. However there are many many things I cook that just happen to be gluten free–the phrase certainly doesn’t mean untasty. I think you have to stick with what works though. Brown rice tortillas? Bleck! Gluten-free oatmeal and sunflower seed butter cookies? Yes, please!

My husband is almost gluten free, almost. He’s kind of a no-wheat vegetarian. Makes things slightly tricky. But we love rice, yes we do, and farro and quinoa and oatmeal.

So there I am at 7:30 on a weekday morning, making my son oatmeal when I start reading the back of the Trader Joes oatmeal bag and huh, I never noticed before, but there is a recipe there for gluten-free oatmeal cookies.
‘Not even a little flour?’ I scoff to myself.
‘I’ve never made oatmeal cookies without flour before. Won’t they fall apart?’ I say to myself.
‘One cup of peanut butter,’ I read on.
‘Hmmm. That’s unusual. I don’t have peanut butter but I do have sunflower seed butter. (Which my kids think is gross.) But maybe maybe maybe if I add in chocolate chips they would eat these.’

So I made them. And they were good. Quite delicious. Except for the sugar and the chocolate chips (optional), they struck me as being kind-of-pretty-much healthy. Husband, kids, grandma and grandpa all approved. One child ate four. Well done Trader Joes!

gluten free cookies

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