Side note:
Yes, I’ve gone back to the old blog header.
This change isn’t permanent. Currently I’m working with a web designer the most patient person in the world to completely overhaul the site’s layout, making it much more user-friendly (including a print option for the recipes). Hopefully it will all be completed soon. New year, new blog?
Now back to your regularly-scheduled cookies…
Pecan pie cookies you can make in minutes.
Delicious and good for you at the same time. If you’ve ever had a pecan pie Larabar, that’s exactly what these pecan pie energy bites taste like.
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Pecan Pie Babies
(raw and gluten-free)
- 1/2 cup raw pecans (For all substitutions on this recipe, see nutrition link below) (52g)
- packed 1 cup pitted dates (I use Sunmaid, found in regular grocery stores near the raisins, as they are softer and stickier than the ones found in natural food stores.) (160g)
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract
- optional: chocolate chips (or mini chips, or a piece of your favorite chocolate bar)
Combine all ingredients in a food processor until it makes a crumbly dough. (You can add the optional chocolate chips either before or after blending.) Pour crumbles into a bag and smush into one big ball. Remove from bag and form little balls. Or you can make bars or cookie-cuttered shapes if you prefer. This can also be made in a Magic Bullet: halve the recipe for best blending in a bullet.
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Question of the Day:
Christmas is coming up too quickly, and I have quite a few cookie recipes left to post, meaning some of them will have to wait until next year.
If you have a preference, please let me know which ones you’d most like to see:
- Flourless Sugar Cookie Cut-Outs
- Mint-Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Chocolate Quinoa Cookies
- Cookies in a Jar
- Cake Batter Macaroons
Link of the Day:
1. cookies in a jar
2. mint chocolate chip
Flourless sugar cookie cutouts! They all look amazing! I love your blog, and cannot wait to see more recipes. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas + New Year!
Please, please, please (with chocolate on top!) include Flourless Sugar Cookie Cut-Outs & Chocolate Quinoa Cookies in upcoming recipes. I need a cutout cookie that isn’t junky, and I need to find more uses for quinoa–chocolate+quinoa sounds like it has seriously good possibilities!
These pecan bites look delish! Question of the day – and the answer is – flourless sugar cookie cut outs. I had to go gluten free 18 months ago and really need a sugar cookie that can be used for holidays.
Would love the see the Sugar cookie recipe or the quinoa ones.. love learning new things that you can do with that item. I just came across your blog the other day and am loving it.. thanks for all the new ideas 🙂
I would really like to see the quinoa recipe if its gluten free, sugar free, and ideally free of any of the grass grain family (gluten grains, rice, cane sugar, etc). Thanks!
Sugar cookie:)
Just made these, they are fantastic 🙂
I added ~1 t of cinnamon, it made it even more pecan-pie like. I’m wondering if there will be any left by the time my family gets home or if I’ll eat the whole batch first (oops!). Love your blog, Katie. As a college girl who loves her sweets, all of your recipes prove I can have my cake and eat it too! Thank you!
I would like to see the flourless sugar cookies!! I love these pecan balls. I added 2 T cocoa because everything is better with some chocolate 😉
chocolate quinoa cookies! please 🙂