Positively the My Favourite Cookie so far! Fruti and Nut Cookies

This reciped comes from Melanie's cookbook. One of our dear friends Robin, gave it to her this past Christmas. It's called the Kid's Fun & Healthy Cookbook. Ok well, I love it, and Mella is warming up to it - but I made these ones by myself. But the whole family and friends and co-workers .... all enjoyed them.

Fruit & Nut Cookies (adapted from the Kid’s Fun & Healthy Cookbook)

Makes 18 big cookies

Ingredients:

½ cup chopped dried apricots

¾ cup whole wheat flour

¾ whole oats

½ cup chopped almonds

1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter

5 tbsp brown sugar

2 tbsp honey

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350F and lightly grease baking sheet. Cut the apricots into small pieces and put in large mixing bowl. Add the flour, oats and nuts to the bowl and mix all together. Cut the butter into small chunks and put into a saucepan. Add the sugar and honey to the saucepan and heat over low heat. Stir  gently until the butter and sugar have melted.  Add the butter mixture to the bowl and mix.

 I made some Almond Apricot.

And some Dark chocolate chips and dried cherries.

Put a spoonful onto the cookie tray and flatten the cookies so them about 1 cm thick.  Bake for 15 minutes or until they are light golden.   

Here are the chocolate/cherry cookies. Melanie and I's favourite.

And here are the apricot/almond cookies. Brent's favourite.

Remove the trays from the oven and leave the cookies to cool slightly. Then transfer the cookies to a cooling rack to cool and become crisp.

Tasty twists:

Instead of the apricot and almond you could change it up. I used dried cherries and dark chocolate chips (even better). You could use raisins, cranberries, dates, other nuts.

Nutritional Information:

126 calories, 15g carbs, 7g fat , 2g protein , 1g fibre, 7g sugar

Delicious and buttery!

Dark and mysterious!