I’ve had an ongoing challenge with mornings for months now – I wake up in the earlier hours of the morning, too early to feel like waking up, but feeling really awake. I finally get back to sleep, and when I wake up again, it’s much later than I like. This morning when I woke up the first time, I decided to just get up. It’s not even so early, it was 5:30 when I fed the baby and it was after 6 by the time I got out of bed. But since at this stage of my life I’ve become a night person, this is early for me!
Last night ds8 and I made a no bake cookie recipe that we tried for the first time on the weekend. I recently copied this one into my notebook, thinking it sounded vaguely familiar, and then found I had already copied the exact same recipe down another time from somewhere else! I guess it shows that I have an idea of the kind of thing that I like, since I don’t copy large numbers of new recipes. 🙂 It’s a great recipe to make with your kids, and so I’m sharing it here with you:
No Bake Oatmeal Cookies
- 2/3 c. maple syrup (I used honey)
- 1/4 c. coconut oil (butter would be fine, too)
- 4 T. cocoa
- 1 t. cinnamon
- 1/2 c. peanut butter
- 2 c. rolled oats (I used organic)
- 1 t. vanilla
Melt maple syrup with cocoa over low heat, then pour over other ingredients and mix well. Drop onto wax paper in small teaspoon size blobs. Refrigerate 30 min. Keep stored in fridge or freezer.
This recipe was so delicious (and healthy!) that it immediately made it onto the list of ‘must make again very soon’. Last night I decided on the spur of the moment (at 9:30 pm) to make them with ds8, who I decided needed some extra mommy time. It’s a quick and easy recipe since there’s no baking and you basically just mix everything into the pot that you heat up the sweetener and cocoa. Because I have a large container of blackstrap molasses, which is lots less expensive than honey, I decided to try substituting it for 3/4 the amount of honey, still using honey for the other 1/4. It came out….well, they’re okay. Blackstrap molasses has a strong and distinct flavor, so it didn’t add much to this recipe. I won’t do it again next time (I will try using regular molasses, though), but I still think that the kids will be willing to eat it. I’ll see when they wake up. I’m having a few of these for breakfast while I write this; it’s a good high energy breakfast, with good healthy fat, fiber, and iron.
Avivah
