YIELD: 30 Cookies Preparation time: 20 minutes
INGREDIENTS AMOUNT
| Whole wheat pastry flour[3] | 2 cups |
| Quick oats | 1 cup |
| Margarine (transfat free) or butter | 1 1/4 cups |
| Stevia 1/4 tsp (teaspoon)
or ½ tsp truvia Or 1 cup erythritol or xylitol* |
¼ teaspoon (tsp) |
| Honey[4] | 1 cup |
| Eggs | 2 large |
| Vanilla extract | 2 tsps |
| Applesauce | 1 cup |
| Ground flax seed | 1 Tablespoon |
| Wheat germ | 1 tsp |
| Kelp powder or dulse flakes | 1 Tablespoon |
| Cinnamon | 1 Tablespoon |
| Optional: Nutmeg | 1/4 tsp |
| Dried cranberries (soaked in hot water) | 1 ½ cups |
| DARK chocolate chips | 1 ½ cups |
METHOD:
- 1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
- 2. In mixing bowl with whisk combine flours and oats; mix well and set aside.
- 3. In electric mixer, cream butter/margarine, and blend in honey and stevia (or truvia, or other sweeteners). Scrape sides of bowl often, as needed.
- 4. Add vanilla and eggs, mix at medium speed until light and fluffy.
- 5. Add in sequence, without mixing, applesauce, cinnamon, flax seed, wheat germ, kelp, flour mixture, dark chocolate chips and cranberries.
- 6. Blend these all together. DO NOT OVERMIX.
- 7. Use a well-rounded tablespoon to place cookies on parchment paper or cookie tray about 1 ½ inches apart.
- 8. Bake at 300 for 14-18 minutes.
- 9. Cool on rack.
This recipe was created by Senior Living Residences. http://www.seniorlivingresidences.com/
[1] Developed following Memory Preservation Nutrition® program by Neville Cullen, Senior Living Residences’ (SLR) former corporate chef, and Kim Smith, current SLR Corporate Chef with a variety of adaptations from SLR’s talented chefs and food service directors.
[2] These are low sodium cookies as they are light and fluffy without baking soda or powder, and salt free.
[3] Some chefs prefer to use 1 cup white flour along with 1 cup of whole wheat pastry flour for fluffier cookies.
[4] For -SUGAR-FREE, low calorie version delete the honey and substitute ¼ tspn additional stevia or any of the other listed non-sugar sweeteners with the suggested amounts.
MEMORY PRESERVATION NUTRITION® provided by BRAIN HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER® OF HEALTH CARE INSIGHTS, LLC
HCI Acton, MA 01720 https://brainwellness.com
