Well, guilty, I like my morning coffee accompanied by cookie. To soften the blow to my health and figure, I'm in constant search of healthy cookie recipe. Here is the version I come up with recently. Yeah, it's vegan gluten- flour- sugar- bla- bla- bla- free.
For about 25 decent sized cookies:
- 3 cups unsweetened coconut flakes
- 3 cups pitted dates (I used Medjool kind)
- 1 cup pitted prunes (optional, they give a little sour note)
- 2 tsp cinnamon (I always use Ceylon one)
- 1/2 cup of water (to moisten enough to get the dough together)
1) Place all ingredients, except water, in a food processor. Process until all mixed together well for about 1 minute. Add water at the end. You should get sticky thick moist dough.
2). Scoup dough into covered with parchment paper baking sheet. Flatten with a bottom of glass. To avoid dough sticking to a bottom of glass, use plastic wrap (tip!).
3). Bake in a preheated to 359F oven for about 20 min.
4). When removed from oven, place on a cooling rack.
Notes:
- keep cookies in a covered cookie jar, they will be more chewy the next day.
- you can use vanilla instead of cinnamon.
- prunes totally optional. Also you can replace them with any other dry fruits or berries like cranberry, apricots, etc.
- you will need large capacity processor, or cut the volume of all ingredients in half.
- if you bake cookies without flattening them, you'll get soft cookies that are yummy too (see the last photo on this page).
