I’ve decided that for the game tomorrow, I want to keep it social and watch it with boyfriend’s friends. When visiting people or participating in get-togethers, I feel obligated to come bearing gifts of sweets of some sort, so I spent an hour reading through cookbooks for a yummy, simple cookie. I wanted to make a cookie with “safe” ingredients because I don’t know these people well enough to know their picky tendencies…well, I’ve failed tremendously. In my efforts to avoid coconut and nuts, I’ve decided to make a cookie that has both! I came across a recipe that was a mix of dried cranberries and coconut that sounded so good. Plus, it only had 4 tablespoons of butter in the whole recipe so that struck my fancy.
So, with the soothing sound of Nigella making something sexy (sorry for lack of a better word…everything she makes, she drools and licks her fingers over!) in the background, I started tossing ingredients into my bowl. Now, by ingredient two, I’d decided to completely change the recipe and make these cookies completely my own (honestly, this time it’s because I realized I didn’t have as many Craisins as the recipe called for, and being selfish and knowing I’d still want some in my oatmeal over then next couple days, I decided do decrease the amount and throw in a bunch of other stuff to make up for it)…
1 cup mixed light and dark brown sugars
1 1/4 cup rolled oats
3/4 cup shredded coconut
1/4 cup dried cranberries
1/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1/4 cup pistachios, roughly chopped
~rough handful of crunched up bran-flakes cereal
1/2 tsp baking soda
pinch of salt
3 tbs water
4 tbs margarine, melted
1 tbs applesauce
2 tbs honey
>mix all dry ingredients into a big bowl. Stir wet ingredients into the dry ingredients until moistened.
>now, by this time, Giada is on and in a nasal tone, she is making an Asian food feast for her large Italian family and very odd aunt who loves sraracha sauce…with aide of a spoon, glob dough onto greased or lined baking sheet and press down so they’re about 2″ around and semi-flattened. This is a very sticky batter so try not to get too frustrated and fling the dough everywhere and just resort to eating it out of the bowl with a spoon. Bake ~10 min and then let cool on cooling rack!
Hopefully everybody will like these, but if not, I’ll eat um up with ice cream!
