This week's Craving Ellie in my Belly recipe is from What's For Supper? Although I wanted to follow the recipe to a "T" (where did this phrase come from??), I decided to opt for the easier, lower calorie version that Johnstone's Vin Blanc put together. You can visit the blog to view that version of the recipe. Ellie's version includes bran flakes, carrot baby food, amongst some other things. I read Johnstone's Vin Blanc's post before making and decided to try her version out. It comes in at 50 calories per cookie (on their blog. I couldn't get 30 small cookies out of the batch, only 20.. so I'm guesstimating 75 calories per cookie). I really enjoyed how simple this version is. Simple ingredients: quick oats, apple sauce, dried cherries, honey, baking soda, canola oil, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, whole wheat pastry flour, and some vanilla.. all things I had in my kitchen already (I left out the flaxseed). Although my pictures don't do the cookies justice, these were really good! The applesauce made them super moist and the dried cherries add a nice tart kick. They reminded me of the consistency of a muffin, but overall really good. Kyle enjoyed them too. I packed them up for snacks for work this week and he always ate them so that's a good sign ;) Remember on this post how I said it was hard to find snacks for him... well, Ellie is doing a great job. So far he likes to eat the Nutty Granola and the Breakfast Cookies (modified version). I do plan to try Ellie's original recipe, but I like the idea of using un-refined sugars like honey and lower fats like applesauce. I recommend this cookie as a healthy snack for kids and adults a like. Thanks What's For Supper? !! To check out what everyone else thought of the recipe or to see the different variations, visit the blogroll on CEiMB.
One of these days I'll get a camera that takes better pictures ;)
One of these days I'll get a camera that takes better pictures ;)
they look great, glad to hear you both liked these. The blog looks so cute with all the 4th of july stuff. i love it!! :)
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You ccokies look great. In re to your comment about crumbling the cookies over baked fruit...what a super idea! I have some left over and that would be a perfect last minute dessert. Thanks!
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ReplyDelete'To a T' dates back to the seventeenth century in literary use and was undoubtedly common in everyday speech long before any writer dared to or thought to use it in print. But it is likely that the name of the instrument, 'T-square,' would have been in print shortly after its invention, yet the first mention is in the eighteenth century. The sense of the expression corresponds, however, with the older one, 'to a tittle,' which appeared almost a century earlier, and meant 'to a dot,' as in 'jot or tittle.' Beaumont used it in 1607, and it is probably that colloquial use long preceded his employment of the phrase..." From "2107 Curious Word Origins, Sayings & Expressions from White Elephants to a Song and Dance" by Charles Earle Funk (Galahad Books, New York, 1993). (extract from the "Phrase Finder" site)
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Glad you liked them. I just finished one while going through my reader and it was really good. Hope you have a great weekend!
ReplyDeleteThanks for baking along with me. Glad that you liked them.
ReplyDeleteThese do look great! I love how everyone took them in a slightly different direction.
ReplyDeleteI definitely think applesauce and honey in place of the oil and sugar is the way to go; it seems like those who made the substitution were very happy with the results.
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