Food and Drink
Organic Christmas Breakfast Cookies
Organic Christmas Breakfast Cookies
• 2 sticks butter
•1-1/4 cups brown sugar
•1/4 cup granulated sugar
•2 eggs
•1 teaspoon vanilla
•1 cup flour
•1 teaspoon baking soda
•1/2 teaspoon sea salt
•2-3 cups uncooked oats (quick or old-fashioned)
•2 cups favorite trail mix or 1 cup dried cranberries and 1 cup chopped nuts
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Beat together butter and sugars until creamy. Stir in eggs and vanilla. Combine flour, baking soda, and salt. Add flour mixture to egg mixture. Stir in oats and trail mix. (The amount of oats you use will be determined by the type of trail mix. A chunky trail mix will require fewer oats. More oats will produce a thicker cookie; fewer oats will produce a cookie that spreads more during baking.)
Drop rounded tablespoons on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 8 minutes or until golden brown. Cool a minute or so on the cookie sheet (too long and they'll stick), then remove to a wire rack. Makes about 4 dozen cookies.
- From Mickey Lawler, Flagg Road United Church of Christ
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