Mondays have taken on a new level of fun and silliness for me the past month or so; I've been participating in a Flickr group called Bench Monday. My set is here; a great pool of others can be found here. The rules: "Stand on a bench. Make sure it's Monday. Wear something pretty. If you have no bench, improvise. Only pictures taken and added to the group on Monday will be accepted. Extra points for live props, double points for chickens." Take a look at the creativity out there!
After some play time at the beach and taking my Bench Monday photo, I tried out a cookie recipe I read about last week on 3191. The recipe intrigued me because of its many interesting flavor twists not usually seen in cookies: toasted nuts, coconut, maple syrup, 1 TABLESPOON cinnamon...no refined sugar, no eggs, no butter (and can be made without wheat flour). We all found them to be really delicious. Alexi promptly ate three of them, and he is normally very disciplined about what he eats (I have never seen him eat three cookies!).
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip (or raisin) Cookies
By Terry Walters, Clean Food Cookbook
2 cups rolled oats
1 cup unbleached white flour or brown rice flour
3/4 cup shredded coconut
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup maple syrup
1/2 cup canola oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup toasted walnuts, chopped
1/2 cup dark chocolate chips or raisins
Oven: 350ºF / 180ºC
Combine oats, flour, coconut, cinnamon and salt. In a separate bowl whisk syrup, oil and vanilla. Pour wet ingredients into dry and combine. Fold in nuts and chips/raisins. Press dough together into small balls and place onto parchment-lined cookie sheets. Bake 16 minutes or until lightly browned.
These get unmanageably sticky to roll unless you wash your hands every six cookies or so.
Happy eating! And happy cinco de mayo.
21 comments:
I love bench Monday! Unfortunately, I haven't participated but love to view all the photos. The cookies look delicious and from you post, they were a big hit. I've got to try them. Thanks for sharing the recipe. :-)
I just love all of the images.
The cookie recipe sounds really yummy! I'll try that one with Erin.
Gorgeous picture and thanks for sharing another great recipe! My husband has been begging for oatmeal cookies!
Beautiful images and yummy cookies. I say add the chocolate chips and raisins. I'm going to give it a go!
i can never resist a cookie recipe. have got to try it.
Lecia,
you always have a way of raising the bench-mark.
I have just the perfect bench in mind for monday!
(made these cookies before and I love the coconut!)
pve
i've been thinking about trying that recipe, too. they look so delicious and seeing them twice is very, very tempting!
Another yummy looking recipe and I love your very creative bench-standing photo!
oh I plan to make those cookies. I am curious to see what 1 Tbl of cinnamon does to the recipe. xoxo
I will have to try the brown rice flour for a gluten-free version. Thanks for sharing the recipe. I should read that blog more...
And I do always appreciate your bench shots!
oh yumm.... how's your finger??? (ouch!)
Oatmeal cookies might be just the ticket to pick up my spirits!
Thanks for this! Really- I gave up sugar and white flour and am always looking for new recipes. I´m going to make these tonight!
i read about bench monday on maya*made's blog and love that idea! thanks for the cookie recipe. sounds delicious and moderately healthy. i have a healthy cookie (not an oxymoron!) recipe i use a lot now, so i am happy to mix it up and try this one!
nicola
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I loved your bench Monday shot.
I'm baking banana bread right now and the smell is nearly killing me. mmmm....
ohhhh, thank you, lecia. i'm going to make these cookies with my egg-allergic class this week. so great, and yum
love the photos! yum
yum.
Vegan goodness!! I can't wait to try these...with dried cranberries, maybe?
they look so delicious & healthy... however i'm on a (high) protein diet until i leave to the US but in case i give up (and honestly i might)or if i'm brave enough to bake this for my family and just watch then eat them (they call it mental torture) i keep this recipe in mind !
we made these in class, lecia... but, um, i dolled them up a bit. posted today. thank you so much again. i always find something inspiring when i read your blog. xoxo
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