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:
OMG! I would LOVE to see mint-chocolate chip cookies (I can only imagine the yumminess of the dough!) or cookies in a jar!
These look awesome! I can’t wait to make them. Also, my oven is broken so I was wondering what other recipes (besides the cookie dough dip – already made that!) I could make that don’t require an oven. Thanks (:
Oh, and the cookies in the jar sound AMAZING!
mint chocolate chip all the way!
Please, please, please do flourless sugar cookies! You would be my favorite person ever if you did! (Not that you already aren’t 😉 ) The mint chocolate cookies sound delicious too. As do the pecan pie babies. Pecan pie is one of my favorite Larabar flavors! I need to get in my kitchen sometime soon to do some cookie baking. Hopefully I’ll be able to this week.
Cake batter macaroons or flourless sugar cookie cutouts
The chocolate quinoa cookies sound very interesting.
I really can’t wait to try the mint-choc chip cookies and cake batter macaroons 🙂 I am also going to make either the peanut butter sandwich bread or banana bread soon and can’t wait! All of your recipes look amaaazing Katie! 🙂
Flourless sugar cookies!!! And chocolate quinoa cookies if you have time 🙂
The cookies I would love to see the recipe for are:
Mint-Chocolate Chip Cookies ( I’m obsesed with Mint)
Cake Batter Macaroons ( I’m also obsessed with cake batter AND macaroons;)
In order of preference:
1. Chocolate Quinoa Cookies
2. Flourless Sugar Cookie Cut-Outs
3. Mint-Chocolate Chip Cookies
4. Cake Batter Macaroons
5. Cookies in a Jar
They all sound super yummy! 😀