Christmas Cookies

We found a new website! He won't know it's Paleo (unless he's the one that found the recipes!).They have a pumpkin cookie that I want to try, but I need a bigger food processor to make it easy, and I won't get it until Christmas! 

We made some "morning glory" cookies yesterday from this site.

Ingredients

• ⅓ c dates, chopped
• 1 green plantain
• 2 tbsp coconut oil
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• ½ tsp baking soda
• pinch of salt
• 1 medium apple, peeled and grated (about ½ c)
• 1 medium carrot, peeled and grated (about ½ c)
• ½ c unsweetened medium shredded coconut
• ¼ c coconut flour

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. Process plantain until the consistency of a paste (or at lest very finely chopped). Then add chopped dates. Pulse a few times until plantain and dates are well combined, but dates are not pureed. Add oil, vanilla, cinnamon, baking soda, salt, and coconut flour. Pulse to combine.
3. Add the shredded apple, carrot, and coconut. Pulse a few times more, but, again, be careful not to over process.
4. Drop batter by heaping tablespoonfuls onto parchment-lined baking sheet. The shape will not change during baking.
5. Bake for 10 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool completely in order to firm up.
6. Store in the refrigerator. These can also be frozen.

I didn't think the cookies held together very well - too much apple? Steve said they're better today. If they had raisins or chocolate or something, I think they'd be really good! When I was looking for the recipe again, I found a lot of different variations, with sweet potato, or banana, or zucchini. I think we'll be experimenting to find the best one!

I'm looking at pumpkin cookies and snickerdoodles from the first site for Christmas, and I might break down and make some chocolate chip cookies with gluten-free Bisquick and some sugar cookies with gluten free all purpose flour. The gf flour tastes more "cake-y" to me, but that doesn't mean they'll be bad!