sandra dawn

A cup of tea, Glee and a plate of oatmeal cookies. So good.

Nadia can’t keep her hands off this batch I just made either. We’re having a kind of unofficial competition over who can eat more of these.

Nadia’s Lick out the Bowl Oatmeal Cookies (a recipe from our kitchen)

• 2 cups whole oats
• 1/2 cup flour (I mix flours, this time I used a bit of coconut flour and unbleached white flour. I also love teff, garbanzo bean, oat, etc.)
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 3 dashes cinnamon
• 2 dashes nutmeg

Mix dry ingredients and set aside.

• 1 medium-sized apple, grated with skin on
• 1/4 cup maple syrup
• 1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted (and cooled so it doesn’t cook the egg when you mix it together)
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla

Mix wet ingredients and add them to dry. Mix.

• 1/3 cup nuts
• 1/3 cup raisins (or chocolate chips)

Add nuts + raisins. Mix some more.

Bake for 15-20 minutes at 350 F.

This was my first go with this recipe. Next time I might halve the maple syrup and halve the butter and add another apple. Also thinking, if I used chocolate chips, it’d be good with two bananas instead of the apples. If anyone gives these a go before I do, let me know how they turn out. I made one batch of adult-sized cookies and another of small bite-sized ones to freeze for Nadia’s lunches + treats. (Though, I’m kidding myself really. I’ll get to them before she can!) Enjoy.