Breakfast Cookies - Weekend Recipe

Today I want to share a recipe you can make ahead and chill overnight and bake fresh in the morning or even freeze for future use.  These cookies are filled with nuts and fruits for anti oxidant power. And are very filling.  Each cookie is 324 calories with Vitamin D, iron, potassium and calcium.

Breakfast Cookies

• 3/4 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 stick butter, room temperature
• ½ cup coconut oil
• 1/2-1 Tbls BYP Cinnful dessert blend or ground cinnamon
• 2 eggs
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 1/2 c ground oat flour
• 2 c flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp sea salt
• 1/2 cup dried cranberries
• 1/2 cup dried cherries
• 1 cup walnuts
• 6 oz. chopped Belgian chocolate (milk or dark)

Directions:

1. If preparing within the hour, preheat oven to 375°. Begin by combining the sugars, butter, oil and spices in large bowl.  Whip together by hand or with a mixer. After whipping these ingredients together, add eggs & vanilla.
2. To prepare the oat flour, pulse old-fashioned oats in a food processor until the oats are ground into a fine powder.
3. Add oat flour, flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder to the creamed mixture. Mix to combine, stopping to scrape the sides and continuing to mix until evenly incorporated.
4. Then stir in the dried fruit, nuts & chopped chocolate.
5. Using a 2-ounce scoop, drop dough onto a parchment-lined baking sheet and refrigerate 1 hour to overnight. At this point you can either store in freezer bags and freeze up to 3 months or bake.
6. To bake, place 5-7 cookie dough balls onto a parchment-lined baking sheet 2″ apart.
7. Before baking in a preheated 375° oven, press the bottom of a drinking glass in granulated sugar and then press the glass onto the cookie, slightly flattening the cookie. Repeat until all cookies have been pressed. NOTE allow frozen balls to thaw before baking.
8. Bake cookies for 14 minutes or until lightly golden around the edges.
9. Allow to cool for 5 minutes before serving.
10. Makes 20 2-ounce cookies.

 

 RECIPE THEME

Each month a theme is chosen and a number of recipes on that theme from my massive archive will be shared.  This year we have 12 new topics, different from the topics of last year.  

To find the recipes of last year, check out this recipe link or search the blog with the topic Recipe2018, Recipe2019, or Recipe2020.

 
You can search the monthly theme by looking for the theme keyword in the search box and it will pull up the recipes on that theme as posted, so look at the bottom of the recipe in each posting for the KEYWORD for each month.  All recipes this year will be tagged Recipe2021 so you can find them all.

The themes are:
Jan 2021 – Baked Items
Feb 2021 – Breakfast Dishes
March 2021 – Italian Dishes
April 2021 - Chicken Recipes
May 2021 - Appetizers
June 2021 – Mediterranean Dishes
July 2021 – Pork Recipes
August 2021 - Seafood
September 2021 - Pizzas
October 2021 – Mexican Dishes
November 2021 - Cookies
December 2021 – Gift Recipes