One Awesome Health Cookie Recipe

Want to try a yummy gluten free, dairy free, sugar free cookie? Yes? Well great! Today I wanted to share a delicious recipe for Health Cookies. Yes, I did say health! Years ago a bakery was going out of business in a local natural foods store. My Mom asked for the recipe for the Health Cookies. The recipe was kindly written down and handed to her. What a treasure! My brother, sister, and I loved those cookies and she bought those for us as often as she could. They were a wonderful treat.

I recently pulled them out of my recipe file and made a batch. They were just as good as I remembered. These cookies are dairy free and sugar free. For those of you who can’t have gluten products simply change the wheat flour into a gluten free flour of your choice and you are ready to go. As far as I understand bakeries measure their ingredients by weight, not measuring cups and spoons. So pull out your kitchen scale and have a yummy healthy treat!

From Jennifer Allen

Grind up separately then mix together:
¼ lb whole pitted prunes
½ lb whole pitted dates
¼ lb raisins
Have a little helper for extra fun.

Add 1 lb of bananas

Mix it all together

Then add:
1 oz wheat germ
½ oz Baking Soda
½ lb peanut butter
½ lb & 1 oz whole wheat flour

When your done mixing it will look something like this.

Eat some batter on your way to the oven. Hey, no fears, no raw eggs.

Bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes on a lightly greased cookie sheet.

Before you know it you'll be enjoying some delicious guilt free cookies. :-)

Health Cookies

Grind up separately then mix together:
¼ lb whole pitted prunes
1 lb bananas
½ lb whole pitted dates
¼ lb raisins

Mix in to the ground mixture:
1 oz wheat germ
½ oz Baking Soda
½ lb peanut butter
½ lb & 1 oz whole wheat flour

Bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes on a lightly greased cookie sheet.

To make these gluten free you could try using: Oatmeal flour, rice flour, barley flour, or another gluten free flour of your choice.