No Bake Cookies

No Bake Cookies

In the summer no one likes to get the oven going.  These are a perfect cookie alternative.  The granola healthy version

2 cups sugar

½ cup cocoa

4 tbsp butter

½ cup milk

½ cup crunchy peanut butter

1 tbsp vanilla extract

1 cup whole grain quick oats

2 cups granola cereal (Quaker Natural oats, honey & almonds)

Place sugar, cocoa, butter and milk in a medium sauce pan.  Bring to a boil, stirring mixture constantly.  Add peanut butter, vanilla, oats and granola.  Stir well and remove from heat.  Drop by spoonfuls onto wax paper.  Let cool completely and harden.

Yield:  40 cookies

© Crackerberries 2013

Granola Cookies

I really didn’t mean for these to come out the way they did, but they taste just like a granola bar made into a cookie.  I even crumbled one up and ate it in yogurt for breakfast the other day.

½ cup butter flavored Crisco

½ cup peanut butter (next time I will use a little more peanut butter)

1 cup brown sugar

½ granulated sugar

1 tsp pumpkin pie spice

1 tsp maple extract

1 tsp baking soda

2 eggs

¾ cup all purpose flour

¾ cup whole wheat flour

3 cups dry oats

½ cup dried banana chips

½ dried figs

Preheat oven 375º.  Cream the Crisco and peanut butter together for 30 second; add sugars together in large mixing bowl and beat until fluffy.  Add maple flavored extract and eggs one at a time, mixing well after each. 

Combine flour, pumpkin pie spice and baking soda together, slowly add to mixture and stir until well blended.  Add oats, banana chips and dried figs and mix well. 

Drop by scoops on ungreased cookie sheet two inches apart.  Bake 375º 10-12 minutes.  Remove from cookie sheet immediately and cool on wire racks. 

© Crackerberries 2011