The Cookie Recipe

from Recipes for a Small Planet
discovered during my no processed sugar experiment

Kitchen Sink Cookies
A little bit of everything makes these so good!

* 1 cup whole wheat flour
* 1/4 cup soy flour (makes the dough taste icky, but adds greatly to the nutritional value of the cookies)
* 1 1/3 cups rolled oats (or mixed rolled grains, which is what I use. quick or not doesn't matter)
3/4 cup unsweetened flaked coconut
* 1/4 cup milk powder (or 1/3 instant)
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp powdered ginger (pumpkin pie spice works really well for the cinnamon and ginger)
2/3 cup raisins (I hate raisins in cookies, so I always substitute chocolate. But to each their own.)
2/3 cup chocolate chips (if substituting chocolate for the raisins, only put in one cup of chips total, or they fall out of the cookie batter and burn on the pan.)
*1/4 cup peanuts, chopped
*1/3 cup sunflower seeds
1/4 cup oil (canola works well or you can melt butter)
1/4 cup molasses (if you don't have this around you can just add a little more honey)
1/4 cup honey (darker honey is better for cooking)
*2 eggs, beaten

1. Stir together all of the dry ingredients
2. Beat the eggs in a small bowl; measure the oil then the honey and molasses in the same measuring cup. (the oil makes the honey Slide out). Beat all the liquid ingredients together thoroughly.
3. Pour the liquid ingredients into the dry ingredients and combine until the dry ingredients are moistened. If the mixture seems too dry add some milk or water until the dough is of drop cookie consistency. (It's a pretty dry dough. and mixes most easily by hand.)
4. Drop the cookies on to an unoiled cookie sheet. Bake at 350*F for 10-12 minutes. (two spoons work well for dropping the cookies. but mostly I use wet hands.)

The recipe says this makes 4 dozen cookies, but I've never gotten that many, unless I double or triple the recipe, which works well.

* These ingredients combine to make a high protein/energy cookie.