Thursday, July 2, 2009

CEimB: Breakfast Cookies

This is my first week participating in Craving Ellie in my Belly. Hi, gang! What's for Supper? is hosting this week, serving up the Breakfast Cookies. I'm so happy this was my first recipe, because I've actually been looking for a good breakfast cookie recipe. Delma eats her breakfast at daycare every morning, so we try to send her easy-to-pack stuff that's relatively healthy. Packing 2 meals plus snacks every day is a lot, especially since we try to keep it pretty simple and we don't want her to get bored with all the repeats of meals. Like when we make a box of Annie's, and then she has mac 'n cheese (with lots of frozen wee peas tossed in to make us feel like she's eating something healthy!) for lunch for 3 days...

So, breakfast cookies. Easy to pack, chock full of stuff I feel good about her eating. I didn't have time to try to stage a photo that would make some big lumpy cookies look lovely. They taste great, though -- not very sweet at all, lots of good stuff that will have you picking at your teeth for ages after eating one of these bad boys.



We only had a sad bag of basically walnut crumbs left, so I used half walnut and half pecan, toasted and then chopped into oblivion. I usually leave nuts in cookies or muffins sort of chunky, but I wasn't even paying attention tonight when I was pounding on that chopper (that sounds dirty), and they ended up practically powder. That's fine, though. And we also didn't have any bran or other flake cereal in the house, so I used Grape Nuts. Oh, and I didn't have pastry flour, so I just used regular whole wheat and all-purpose. I have no clue how that may have changed the final outcome.

This is a great, super-easy recipe and lends itself to countless variations. I'll definitely try with dried cranberries, and with some fruit-sweetened chocolate chips. Yum!

10 comments:

Pamela said...

Pounding on the chopper is a good way to get your frustrations out, even if it sounds dirty. :o) Hope your little one likes the cookies. Grape Nuts sound like a good sub, too.

Anonymous said...

Your cookies look like real oatmeal cookies. Yum!
Like the grapenut idea.
Welcome to the group!

Bella Baker said...

Welcome to CEiMB!!! Wow, Grape Nuts are a total blast from the past!! I bet that was a great sub! Your cookies look awesome!

Anonymous said...

Welcome to the group; I'm glad you enjoyed your first recipe!

Mary said...

Welcome to CEimB...I am so glad you are doing this too...my short people liked it too...and I had a whole bunch of them :).

nick said...

LOL at this; "I didn't have time to try to stage a photo that would make some big lumpy cookies look lovely."

... and don't sweat it. I'm sure if you tell kids they are getting a "cookie" for breakfast so long as it doesn't have hair on it, they'll be happy to eat it!

Sara said...

great job! I hope the girls like these.

I think that the pastry flour just makes the cookie more tender, kind of like how cake flour makes a lighter more tender cake. I did have some WW pastry flour and my cookies came out very puffy and cakey, which I THINK is partially from that flour.

Alyssa said...

Welcome to CEiMB! You can never go wrong with cookies.. !

Did your daughter like them?

What's for Supper? said...

Great job and welcome to CEiMB!

Leslie said...

Your changes sound great, and I agree that adding chocolate chips can only enhance these guys!