Breakfast Cookies

I have been working on this recipe for a while. It's hard to get a cookie texture without using any flour or butter. But I finally did it. It's perfect with coffee or just as a little pick me up snack. Warning: These guys are little, but eating two equals eating a full breakfast. They are packed with fiber though (eating 2 gives you 50% of your daily fiber intake), so you won't find yourself feeling hungry anytime soon.

Ingredients
4 Cups Old-Fashioned Oats
2 Cups Flax Seed
1 Cup Almonds
1/4 Cup Coconut Oil
1 Cup Apple Sauce
1/2 Cup Dark Brown Sugar
1/4 Cup Craisins
1/4 Cup Dark Chocolate Chips
2 t. Cinnamon
2 t. AllSpice
2 t. Nutmeg
1 t. Salt
4 Eggs

Preheat oven to 250 F.
Mix oatmeal, flax, and almonds in a large casserole dish. Melt the coconut oil and mix in with oatmeal. Put apple sauce, brown sugar, cinnamon, allspice, and nutmeg in a saucepan and heat over medium heat. Stir constantly until the mixture is reduced by half. Remove from heat an stir in with oatmeal mixture. Place in oven for 1 hour.

Remove from oven and allow to cool. Sprinkle with salt. If you just left it here, you would have some pretty great granola. But that's not us. We don't just stop all willy-nillie. We must soldier on! Mix the eggs and pour them over the granola that you just made. Now add the craisins and chocolate chips. Mix it all up. Get your hands all up in there (just make sure everything is coated with eggs).

Preheat your oven to 350 F.
Spray a 1/4 cup measuring cup with cooking spray and pack in some of the mix fairly tightly. Drop the mix out onto a cookie sheet (it should hold it's form). Bake the cookies for 15 minutes.

yields 24 cookies.

Nutrition per 1/4 cup cookie:
calories 250 - sugar 8g - (good) fat 13.6g -(bad) fat 1.4g - fiber 7g


(you can eliminate all of the bad fat by not adding the chocolate chips, but I think that they are worth it)