Healthy Deep Dish Cookies

I'm not a fan of Pinterest, but I do love that friends get on there and find good recipes. This one sounded really weird, but I gave it a try. It's actually good. It's not exactly like the flour/egg/butter deep dish cookie I've posted on here, but considering how much more healthy it is, I think it tastes pretty great. The kids and hubs loved it, and this may become our new favorite desert.

Perhaps I'll make it a few more times before deciding that...

Healthy Deep Dish Cookie

Skillet Chocolate Chip Cookie

Skillet Chocolate Chip Cookie

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It was just a sad, sad day when I found this recipe. A sad day for the jeans in my closet that are too small and think they might see the light of day again soon. So sad for me and for them.

Oh well! I'm happy, and I have other jeans!

No bake chocolate cookies

My friend calls me up and tells me that she's doing a fast. A "no dairy, no wheat, no meat" fast. It was for 40 days. She went on to say in no uncertain terms that unless I wanted to end our friendship immediately, I would do the fast with her. 

I think that's what she said. I can't imagine under what other circumstances I would have agreed to do a fast of that sort for that long.

Yeah, as I think back on it, I'm pretty sure that's how it went down.

As I look back on it, seriously, I learned a lot about food- Why I eat, what I eat and when I eat. It wasn't a spiritual fast at all, but it really turned out to be one for me. I realized that for me, food wasn't just for nourishment. And that can be a bad thing.

I also learned that there are times that if I don't have something chocolate, I will sprout horns, foam at the mouth and decimate anything in my path.

That's how it feels anyway.

So in the midst of this fast, I ran to my computer to search for some sort of something I could whip up that would satisfy my sweet tooth, and I found this recipe. It was so good that I kept it and continue to make them. The kids like them, and I was surprised at how good they were, considering how healthy they are!

No Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies

Ingredients:

2/3 cup maple syrup 

1/4 cup oil (I use coconut)

5 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/2 cup peanut butter (natural with no hydrogenated oils)

1 cup rolled oats

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

In a saucepan over medium heat, combine the maple syrup, oil, cocoa and cinnamon. Boil for three minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and stir in the peanut butter, rolled oats and vanilla until well blended. Drop by heaping spoonfuls onto waxed paper and chill to set, about 30 minutes. 

No Bake Chocolate Cookies 

It's a really good cookie that will satisfy you even if you are in the midst of a fast to save a friendship. :)