Cookies - Banana Date Raisin OatmealCookies - Banana Date Raisin Oatmeal
From All-Creatures.org Vegan - Vegetarian Recipe Book: How Mary and Frank and Friends Eat

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Ingredients

Cookies - Banana Date Raisin Oatmeal
1 cup Spelt or Whole Wheat Flour
3 cups Rolled Oats (oatmeal), quick
1/2 tsp. Nutmeg, ground
2 cups Raisins
4-5 Bananas, medium size, ripe
1 cup Dates, pitted
Apple Juice, as needed

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Preparation

Banana date raisin oatmeal cookies are a delightful treat for any time of the day. This relatively easy to prepare vegan recipe will make 12 large or 24 small cookies. Preparation time is about 15 minutes and baking time is about 20 minutes. Since this recipe contains to preservatives, we suggest storing any leftover cookies in a covered container in the refrigerator.

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. (175 degrees C.)

Place the spelt, or whole wheat flour, and the quick rolled oats (oatmeal) in a bowl and mix together.  Add the nutmeg and mix well.  Add the raisins and mix well to ensure that the raisins are not sticking together, and that they are thoroughly coated with the flour mixture. 

Place the peeled bananas and dates in the container of a high speed blender.  Cover and run at high speed until all the ingredients are thoroughly blended and smooth. 

Add the banana-date mixture to the flour mixture and mix thoroughly with a stiff spatula or spoon.  If the cookie dough is too stiff after adding all the liquid mixture, you may add a little apple juice. A thinner dough will make a flatter cookie.  A stiff dough will make irregular thick cookies like the ones shown in the photo.  (To test for dough stiffness, we stick a soup spoon upright into the dough.  If the dough is stiff enough, the spoon will remain upright.)

On a non-stick or lightly oiled baking sheet, place the cookie dough in twelve or twenty-four equal sized "mounds."  Smooth and shape each cookie with a spoon or spatula, as desired. 

Place the baking sheet in the preheated oven and bake at 350 degrees F. for 20 minutes.  Various ovens bake differently, so we suggest that you begin checking the cookies after 15-20 minutes of baking.  The cookies should be firm, but not hard.  Be careful not to over-bake.  When the banana date raisin oatmeal cookies are baked, remove from the oven, cool, and enjoy.

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Vegan FlagThe above recipe is in keeping with God's creation intent (Genesis 1:29-31): 'Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground-- everything that has the breath of life in it-- I give every green plant for food." And it was so. God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.' (NIV) Let no animal suffer or die that we may live!