Pure Food's Recipe

Here is a Pure Food recipe favorite. You will love this scrumptious, yet healthy treat!!!!

Stacy’s Chewy Unrefined Oatmeal Cookies
Use organic products whenever possible:1 1/2 cups old-fashioned regular or thick cut rolled oats

1 1/4 cups whole wheat pastry flour 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg ½ cup unrefined coconut oil 3/4 cup dark muscovado, demerara, or sucuant sugar 2 eggs (free range if possible)
1 teaspoon real vanilla extract 1/4 cup whole or lowfat milk (grass fed if possible)
1 to 1 ½ cup raisins 1 cup chopped walnuts

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Whisk together rolled oats, flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg in large bowl. Using an electric mixer, cream the coconut oil with sucuant sugar until smooth, add eggs and vanilla and blend. With the mixer on low speed, add oat mixture and milk, beating until well combined dough forms. Stir in raisins and nuts. (If not using immediately, refrigerate for up to 12 hours.) Drop by tablespoonfuls onto cookie sheets, spacing about 2 inches apart. Press tops to slightly flatten. Bake until the edges are brown and the centers are still soft and puffy, about 11 to 14 minutes. Cool and store in a covered container for up to 3 days or freeze.

Be creative with variations:
· Use brown rice flour instead of whole wheat pastry for wheat free
· Use dried dates, cranberries, blueberries or cherries in place of raisins
· Use butter instead of coconut oil
· Use maple Syrup or turbinado sugar instead of sucuant
· Use ¼ cup peanut butter or almond butter in place of walnuts
· Use pecans, almonds, pistachios, sunflower seeds or other in place of walnuts
· Use soy or rice milk instead of milk
· Use all spice in place of nutmeg
· Add dried raw coconut (1/3 cup)