Tuesday Cookies

I'm making cookies today.  We have been working with someone down canyon on the project and the person has a no wheat flour diet.  I'm trying this recipe and going to see if we can add some fiber and natural sugars from our farm into the recipe.

First, I make an oatmeal cookie that we've taken to adding some combination of dried cherries, pecans, dried apple chunks and chocolate chips.  It usually has refined white sugar and brown sugar.  


Oatmeal Cookies                                                        Preheat Oven: 375 degrees F

1 cup softened butter
2 ripe medium bananas
1 cup apple sauce
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
Juice of one Mandarin orange
1 cup cocoa
1/2 cup chopped dried cherries, apples, or other fruit
Juice of one Mandarin orange
1 cup chopped pecan pieces
1 cup Almond Milk
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
6 cups whole oats
1 cup flax seed.

Mash ripened bananas into softened butter.  Add in Whip in each egg.  Add in liquids while stirring.. Mix in cocoa till thoroughly blended.
Stir in cherries, pecans, chocolate chips.  Sprinkle Baking Soda Add half of the whole oats while stirring completely.  Sprinkle on flax seed as you stir.  Add the rest of the oats.

Bake at 375 for 15 minutes for chewy or mash down a bit and cook for 20 minutes for crunchy exterior.
Let cool and store in container.  Refrigeration not necessary but may extend shelf life and firm up cookies.