Recipes/Cooking/Baking
  
  Breakfast Cookie
  
    When I'm working hard to watch what I eat, I often crave sweets—but I don't want anything too sweet.
    This is not a sweet cookie—I'll call it a ‘breakfast cookie’—it's halfway between a cookie and a biscuit.
    No granulated sugar, no flour.  It uses Crisco—but only because I had bought a can for a particular recipe, and am trying to use it up.
    Often, my cooking experiments are disasters—but these actually turned out great, so I'm adding this to my recipe
    collection, so I can remember what I did!
  
  
  
  Preheat oven: 325°F
  
  Ingredients:
  
  2 cups quick-cooking oats
  1/4 cup brown sugar
  1/2 cup Crisco (butter-flavored)
  1/4 cup water
  2 eggs
  1/4 tsp salt
  1/2 tsp almond extract
  1/2 to 1 cup of added ingredients (mix-and-match, as desired):
  
    - chopped dates
- nuts
- coconut
- raisins
- dried fruit bits
Put all ingredients in a
  Kitchenaid mixer bowl and stir (on 2-3 setting) until thoroughly combined.
  
  Drop by generous mounded teaspoons onto parchment paper on a baking sheet.
  
  Bake at 325°F for about 15 minutes.
  
  Enjoy with a cup of herbal tea!
  
  I put 23 in individual little baggies in the freezer.
  This helps me resist the temptation to eat too many at once!