Cheat cookies – school snack

I found this recipe on Pinterest yesterday and rushed home to make it.  (don’t mock Pinterest, it’s addictive!!)

The original version has banana and wheat-flour in that I just replaced with maize flour and an extra egg as we didn’t have any bananas.  We are also trying really hard to manage Daniel’s exzema at the moment, so I ended up replacing the peanut butter with Tahini.  The kids went nuts about it and I sent it to school today as part of their snack. I also left out the icing bit as we are on a go slow with sugar.

It was SO easy to make, even with interference help from the kids and rescuing half a box of Bicarb of Soda from being dumped in the mixer.  But we all had fun.  And they actually loved eating something that’s really healthy.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
• 60 ml soft butter
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup castor sugar
• 1/3 cup tahini
• 1 tablespoon honey
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 2 large eggs
• 2 cups rolled oats

Method:

Heat oven to 180 degrees Celsius

Combine butter and both types of sugar and mix until pale.

Add honey, tahini, vanilla essence and eggs.  Mix until smooth.

Add all the dry ingredients except the oats and mix until just combined.  Lastly add the oats.

The cookies increase in size by about a third when baked, so it’s up to you to decide how big you want them.  I use a heaped teaspoon, roll it into a ball and then flatten with a fork.

Bake for about 12-15 minutes, depending on the size of the cookies, until light brown.

ps. The cake mixture is almost better than the final product.  At least, Mignon thinks so 🙂