Breakfast Cookies - CEiMB

I was the lucky one to choose this week's recipe for Craving Ellie in My Belly. Sara and Nick wanted to allow some older members to be able to choose again, thus starting at the top of the list. Thanks!! I chose these yummy breakfast cookies.

Breakfast Cookies
2007 Ellie Krieger

Serves:
12 cookies, serving size 1 cookie

Ingredients
3/4 cup whole-wheat pastry flour
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1/4 cup canola oil
1/4 cup dark brown sugar
3 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 egg
1/4 cup (1 small jar) strained carrot baby food
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup rolled oats
1/2 cup bran cereal flakes
1/3 cup raisins
1/3 cup walnut pieces, lightly toasted in a dry skillet for 2 minutes, until fragrant and chopped

Directions
Place rack in center of oven and preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Whisk together flours, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt in a medium-sized bowl. Combine butter, oil and sugars in the bowl of a stand mixer and mix on high speed, scraping down sides if necessary, until sugars have dissolved and mixture is light in color, about 1 minute. Add egg, carrot puree and vanilla and beat an additional 30 seconds. Add flour mixture and beat an additional 30 seconds. Add oats, flakes, raisins and walnuts and mix over low speed just until incorporated. Dough will be slightly sticky and less cohesive than traditional cookie dough. Line a large cookie sheet with parchment paper. Using between 3 to 4 tablespoons of batter, form a ball and place on cookie sheet. Repeat with remaining batter, leaving about 3 inches between cookies. Wet hands and use palm of hand to flatten cookies until about 1/4-inch thick. Bake for 12 minutes, until cookies are fragrant but still soft. Let cookies cool slightly, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

The cookies are good. However, walnuts are not a hit in our house. So I used chopped peanuts instead. I think that next time I will completely exclude any nuts. I think that they would be perfect without the nuts. Unfortunately, I was the only one in my household who liked the cookies. The boys don't like nuts or raisins. And my husband thought was scared of the baby carrots. I just froze them and am going to pull them out one at a time to enjoy for breakfast.

Thanks for baking these along with me!

Fiesta Scrambled Eggs

These scrambled eggs were so good. I made them for supper with whole wheat english muffins the other night. I was worried that the jalapeno pepper would be too much and almost only added 1/2 of it. I was glad that I decided to go for it and use the whole pepper. It was perfect. We will be making this recipe again!

The original recipe came out of the Taste of Home Simple and Delicious Cookbook.

1/2 cup chopped onion

1/4 cup chopped sweet red pepper

1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and chopped

8 bacon strips, cooked and crumbled

8 eggs, lightly beaten

1 cup (4 ounces) shredded cheddar cheese, divided

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon pepper

Salsa

DIRECTIONS: In a large, nonstick skillet coated with non-stick cooking spray, saute the onion and pepper until tender. Sprinkle with bacon. Pour eggs over the top; sprinkle with 1/2 cup cheese, salt and pepper. Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until eggs are completely set. Sprinkle with remaining cheese. Serve with salsa.

YIELD: 6 servings.

Pecan Honey Sticky Buns - TWD

The TWD group made these buns back in May. It was chosen by Madame Chow. She has the recipe posted HERE if you want to try it. I decided to make these up because I had the dough frozen in the freezer since I made the Brioche Raisin Snails a few weeks ago.

My dad was in town for a late Christmas dinner so I decided to make these sticky buns up for breakfast. They were quite delish. I even liked the toasty pecans when they came out of the oven. I usually am not a nut fan in the slightest so I was quite surprised. The sticky part was probably the best tasting part of the rolls though. My dad must have thought so too. I think that he ate 3 of them!!

My "catch up" TWD recipe list is getting smaller.