in my never ending quest to make yummy food that's also good for me and my baby, i've modified the oatmeal cookie recepie on the back of the canister.
3 cups old fashioned oats
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1 t baking soda
1/2 cup almonds (i threw mine in the food processor b/c avery's not so good with nuts, but you can leave them whole if you'd like them chunky)
2 pealed medium mashed peaches
some yogurt (fat free, french vanilla- you could use milk or water if you wanted this to be vegan)
1 egg
1 cup brown sugar.
mix dry ingredients together. then mix wet. mix both together.
i have a baby so I don't have time to do normal cookies, so i pour the batter into a greased baking dish and bake on 350 for like 25 minutes until brown and seem done.
I have also put them in mini-muffin and normal sized muffin pans. Once, I greased the inside of a (clean!) turtle shaped sand toy and baked it on a cookie sheet.
Sometimes I leave them plain on top; sometimes I crumble brown sugar before baking, or spread with cream cheese, or glaze with a melted cream cheese/milk/brown sugar situation.
if you don't have fresh peaches, i'm sure canned would be fine- though i wouldn't use them. Pears would do well. Bananas, apple sauce (canned or just mashed cooked apples) would too. I'd probably also do sweet potatoes or canned pumpkins. You could reduce the sugar too, or try honey, agave, stevia etc. If you go the vegan route, and eliminate the egg, I'd use an egg substitute or increase the baking soda by like a half teaspoon.
these passed the baby test, the dad test, AND the boyfriend who hates veggies test.
happy baking!
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