Saturday, September 21, 2013

Oatmeal-walnut-prune cookies

Last night we had Adam's parents over for dinner to celebrate their 35th wedding anniversary which was 9/17. Adam has become the head chef our house and I'm mostly in charge of appetizers and dessert. This is what I decided to make for the sweet treat of the night :)

Dry ingredients
1 cup rolled oats
3/4 cup spelt flour (or whole wheat flour, barley flour, brown rice flour, unbleached all-purpose flour)
1/4 cup date sugar (or maple sugar or any sugar of your liking)
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp fine sea salt

Wet ingredients
1/2 cup safflower oil*
1/3 cup maple syrup 
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp molasses

about 1/4 cup walnuts chopped
about 1/4 cup prunes chopped
I didn't measure the walnuts or plums so do what you think is the right amount...

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. Combine the dry ingredients in one bowl and mix.
3. Combine the wet ingredients in another bowl and mix.
4. Combine wet and dry ingredients and mix. Then add the chopped walnuts and prunes.
5. Form into cookies and bake for 10-12 minutes.

*I found the dough to be a bit oily but the cookies turned out perfectly. I do recommend using parchment paper because it makes for an easy clean up!

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