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): 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 2–3 in individual little baggies in the freezer.
This helps me resist the temptation to eat too many at once!