Completely Vegan Oatmeal Cookies
I adapted this recipe tonight from one in the Pillsbury Complete Cookbook; by adapted I mean I pretty much just tried to loosely follow the proportions; however, I have found they are not entirely useful...more to follow below.
Ingredients:
1/2 Large Banana
1 container Puréed Prunes (from your babyfood aisle)
Scant 2tbs Peanutbutter
1/4c Brown Sugar
3/4c Unbleached All Purpose Flour
3/4tsp Baking Soda
1/2tsp Cinnamon
1/4tsp Salt
1 1/2c Rolled Whole Oats
1/2c Raisins
1/4c Soy Milk
Method:
Mash up the banana good, like whip it. If you have a food processor or blender, give it a good whirr in that so it's nice and gooey. Mix the banana goo with the prune goo, the peanutbutter, the sugar, and the vanilla until smooth-ish. Add the flour, soda, cinnamon, and salt. Mix until it comes together; add soy milk slowly until the batter smooths out and is a little liquidy. Then stir in your oats and raisins.
Bake in a 375F oven for 9 - 12 minutes until the oats on top start to brown and they are squishy but not sticky.
What I learned from this go around: way too much oats. If you want these to flatten out like cookies are supposed to, I'd recommend seriously going with 3/4s - 1c of oats rather than the full cup and a half. I'd also recommend trying applesauce instead of mashed bananas. Though the bananas were there partially as a binder (egg substitute), the peanutbutter and prunes might be enough to fill this role. Apple sauce generally has a much milder, less obvious taste when added to baked goods (especially complimentary when cinnamon is involved) than banana. These have a slight, but noticable, banana flavour to them that I would prefer to not have (it somewhat overpowers the raisins).
This is a fairly dense batter which makes fairly dense cookies. If you want round, flat disk cookies, I'd recommend using more processed quick oats (as opposed to whole oats that I used) as they will suck up less moisture and are generally smaller so the cookies will flatten out more.
Mine are mighty tasty, but also very filling. I think they are healthy enough to be on par with most commercial granola bars only without all the unhealthy stuff and preservatives.
Ingredients:
1/2 Large Banana
1 container Puréed Prunes (from your babyfood aisle)
Scant 2tbs Peanutbutter
1/4c Brown Sugar
3/4c Unbleached All Purpose Flour
3/4tsp Baking Soda
1/2tsp Cinnamon
1/4tsp Salt
1 1/2c Rolled Whole Oats
1/2c Raisins
1/4c Soy Milk
Method:
Mash up the banana good, like whip it. If you have a food processor or blender, give it a good whirr in that so it's nice and gooey. Mix the banana goo with the prune goo, the peanutbutter, the sugar, and the vanilla until smooth-ish. Add the flour, soda, cinnamon, and salt. Mix until it comes together; add soy milk slowly until the batter smooths out and is a little liquidy. Then stir in your oats and raisins.
Bake in a 375F oven for 9 - 12 minutes until the oats on top start to brown and they are squishy but not sticky.
What I learned from this go around: way too much oats. If you want these to flatten out like cookies are supposed to, I'd recommend seriously going with 3/4s - 1c of oats rather than the full cup and a half. I'd also recommend trying applesauce instead of mashed bananas. Though the bananas were there partially as a binder (egg substitute), the peanutbutter and prunes might be enough to fill this role. Apple sauce generally has a much milder, less obvious taste when added to baked goods (especially complimentary when cinnamon is involved) than banana. These have a slight, but noticable, banana flavour to them that I would prefer to not have (it somewhat overpowers the raisins).
This is a fairly dense batter which makes fairly dense cookies. If you want round, flat disk cookies, I'd recommend using more processed quick oats (as opposed to whole oats that I used) as they will suck up less moisture and are generally smaller so the cookies will flatten out more.
Mine are mighty tasty, but also very filling. I think they are healthy enough to be on par with most commercial granola bars only without all the unhealthy stuff and preservatives.