Granola Oat Cookies

Ingredients (serve 24 cookies)

• 1/3 cup Hu baking gems (good chocolate is so important…these are the best for baking and taste)
• 1/3 cup nuts (walnuts, pecans or macadamia nuts)
• 1/3 cup dried cherries or dried cranberries
• ¼ cup of shredded unsweetened coconut
• 2 cups of gluten-free old fashioned oats
• 3-4 tablespoons of milkadamia Unsweetened milk
• 1 tablespoon of flax meal (soak flax meal in 3 tablespoons of water for 10 min. prior to adding. The flax mixture behaves like an egg)
• ¼ cup of coconut sugar
• ¾ cup dark brown sugar
• 1 ½ teaspoons cinnamon
• 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla
• ¼ teaspoon Himalayan salt
• 1 cup of gluten free flour
• ½ teaspoon baking powder
• ¾ teaspoon baking soda
• ½ cup of milkadamia buttery spread

How to make

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Mix fruit, nuts and coconut in bowl, set aside.
3. Mix butter, sugars and vanilla and flax mixture for 30 seconds on medium
4. Fold in dry mix of flour, soda, salt, cinnamon – mix on medium or low (not too much, maybe 30 seconds to a minute max)
5. Remove mixer from the stand and fold in the oats and fruit/nuts until it is all mixed together (use your hands and add enough milk to make the dough pliable but not still solid enough to form balls)
6. Scoop round balls (cookie scoop or a tablespoon rolled by hand) and place on parchment lined cookie sheet
7. Bake 15-17 minutes (check bottom of cookies after 15, the cookies will look and feel raw from the top until they cool)
8. Cool on wire rack for at least an hour.