Recipes/Cooking/Baking
Breakfast Cookie
When I'm working hard to watch what I eat, I often crave sweets—but I don't want anything too sweet.
This is not a sweet cookie—I'll call it a ‘breakfast cookie’—it's halfway between a cookie and a biscuit.
No granulated sugar, no flour. It uses Crisco—but only because I had bought a can for a particular recipe, and am trying to use it up.
Often, my cooking experiments are disasters—but these actually turned out great, so I'm adding this to my recipe
collection, so I can remember what I did!
Preheat oven: 325°F
Ingredients:
2 cups quick-cooking oats
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup Crisco (butter-flavored)
1/4 cup water
2 eggs
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp almond extract
1/2 to 1 cup of added ingredients (mix-and-match, as desired):
- chopped dates
- nuts
- coconut
- raisins
- dried fruit bits
Put all ingredients in a
Kitchenaid mixer bowl and stir (on 2-3 setting) until thoroughly combined.
Drop by generous mounded teaspoons onto parchment paper on a baking sheet.
Bake at 325°F for about 15 minutes.
Enjoy with a cup of herbal tea!
I put 23 in individual little baggies in the freezer.
This helps me resist the temptation to eat too many at once!