Name: Healthy Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: Wet Ingredients:; 100 g / 3.5 oz pitted dates (1 heaped packed cup); 1/3 cup / 85 ml boiling water; 1 egg; 3 tbsp maple syrup or honey (Note 1); 3 tbsp coconut oil , melted, or other plain oil (Note 2); 1 tsp vanilla essence (Note 5); Dry Ingredients:; 1 1/4 cups rolled oats; 1/2 cup flaked almonds (Note 3); 1/4 cups desiccated coconut (Note 3); 1/2 cup raisins or sultanas (Note 3); 3/4 cup almond meal (almond flour) (Note 4); 1/2 tsp baking powder; 1/2 tsp cinnamon (Note 5)

1. Sweetness: Can use anything sweet in liquid form eg agave, golden syrup. 3 tbsp makes these cookies a bit sweet but not like normal cookies. Use 4 tbsp if you have a sweet tooth or reduce to 1 tbsp if you don't have a sweet tooth (still get sweet from the dried fruits)

2. Oil: Can use any oil, use a flavourless or neutral one. Or melted butter or margarine.

3. Add Ins: Use 1 1/4 cups in total of your choice of flaked or chopped nuts, desiccated coconut and chopped dried fruit (or small fruit like raisins, cranberries, blueberries) - or CHOC CHIPS!! If you skip the coconut, use at least 1/4 of fairly finely chopped nuts (to ensure cookie holds together properly).

4. Almond meal: aka Almond Flour. Can also use hazelnut meal/flour. Do not sub with normal flour - makes cookie cardboardy.

5. Flavourings: Use whatever you like. For spice: all spice, nutmeg, cardamom, mixed spice. Essence: orange blossom, lemon, caramel, coconut, almond.

6. GLUTEN FREE option - ensure the oats are gluten free.

7. STORAGE: good for 5 days in a super airtight container, though the outside of the cookies do soften, like any homemade cookie. Haven't tried freezing yet - would love to know if anyone does!

8. Nutrition per cookie (6 big chunky cookies):

Healthy Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies

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