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Oat and Fruit Breakfast Cookies
For desert, Colleen prepared a breakfast cookies recipe. Well, there is no Mexican flavours in this recipe.
The Oat and Fruit Breakfast Cookies are high in fiber just like the Jicama Salad and Black Bean Soup with Citrus Fruit. It is soft and chewy. This is a wholesome cookie that can occasionally take the place of a real breakfast.
Ingredients
- 2/3 cup whole wheat flour
- 1/3 cup all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt (ignore if you use salted butter)
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2/3 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup grated peeled apples
- 2 1/3 cups rolled oats or quick cooking oats
- 1/3 cup dried cranberries, chopped
- 1/3 cup currants
Currants, also known as Zante currants come from Black Corinth grapes (sometimes called Champagne grapes). Like raisins, they have a significant amount of fiber, iron and potassium.
Source: via Colleen
Yield 16 large cookies
P/S: the kitchen doubled the recipe
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No Bake Cookies
The second dessert prepared by Michelle in the South Arm Seniors Kitchen is a No Bake Cookie.
These No Bake Cookies freeze well. It is a healthy snack for your kids’ lunch box. You can substitute the peanut butter with sunflower seed butter if your kids’ school is a peanut free zone which most schools are.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 1 cup granulated sugar or cane sugar
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1/3 cup pure cocoa powder
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1/2 cup peanut butter
- 3 cups quick oats
- 1/2 cup chopped dried apricots, optional
- 1/4 cup flaxmeal
- 1/4 cup wheat germ
Source: via Michelle
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Amaretti Cookies
For dessert, Minoo prepared an Italian cookie called Amaretti Cookie at the South Arm Community Kitchen.
The Amaretti Cookie is chewy and has a strong flavour of almond. Minoo told us this cookie bakes better in a convection oven with even heat circulation.
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups almond flour or 3 cups of blanched slivered almonds, finely ground up
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 3 egg whites
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
Source: this recipe is adapted from simplyrecipe
Makes about 30 cookies
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Almond Thins
Michelle prepared some Almond Thins cookies for the Chinese New Year celebration at the South Arm Cooking Club for Seniors.
Michelle called it Monica’s Almond Thins. I guessed the recipe is from Monica. The Almond Thins are crispy and quite additive. They are great with a cup of tea.
Ingredients
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 4 tablespoons all-purpose unbleached flour
- 1 1/2 cups sliced almonds
- orange rind from one orange
Source: this recipe is adapted from Monica
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Dried Fruit and Spice Oatmeal Cookies
This Raisin and Spice Oatmeal Cookies ties up the spice theme in the Gilmore Park Church community kitchen. Besides the benefit of spices, this cookie also has the goodness from oatmeal.
Here is an excerpt that Minoo shared in the community kitchen on the reasons to eat oatmeal.
- Many studies show that eating oatmeal may help lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart disease. The soluble fiber in oats helps remove LDL or bad cholesterol, while maintaining the good cholesterol that your body needs. In January 1997, the Food and Drug Administration announced that oatmeal could carry a label claiming it may reduce the risk of heart disease when combined with a low-fat diet.
- The soluble fiber in oatmeal absorbs a considerable amount of water which significantly slows down your digestive process. The result is that you’ll feel full longer, i.e. oatmeal can help you control your weight.
- New research suggests that eating oatmeal may reduce the risk for type 2 diabetes. In fact, the American Diabetes Association already recommends that people with diabetes eat grains like oats. The soluble fiber in these foods help to control blood glucose levels.
- With the exception of certain flavoured varieties, the oats found in your grocery stores are 100% natural. If you look at the ingredients on a canister of rolled oats, you will usually see only one ingredients… rolled oats.
- According to recent studies, a diet that includes oatmeal may help reduce high blood pressure. The reduction is linked to the increase in soluble fiber provided by oatmeal. Oats contain more soluble fiber than whole wheat, rice or corn.
- Oatmeal contains a wide array of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants and is a good source of protein, complex carbohydrates and iron.
- the fiber and other nutrients found in oatmeal may actually reduce the risk for certain cancers.
- Oatmeal is quick and convenient. Every type of oatmeal can be prepared in a microwave oven. Even when cooked on the stovetop, both old-fashioned and quick oats can usually be made in less than 10 minutes. And what about instant oatmeal… a hot breakfast in under a minute.
Ingredients
- 2 large eggs
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2/3 cup raisins
- 1 2/3 cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 teaspoon ground cardamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 3/4 cups (packed) dark brown sugar
- 2 cups old-fashioned oats
Source: this recipe is adapted from Epicurious.com
Makes about 40 cookies
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Chocolate Banana Cookies
For dessert, Minoo selected a Chocolate Banana Cookies recipe to end the meal at South Arm Community Kitchen. This Chocolate Banana Cookies are great for breakfast or tea time snack. They can be easily packed into the lunch box.
This Chocolate Banana Cookie is soft and fluffy. It’s has a cakey texture. You may use various types of chocolate for this recipe, like milk, white, dark or flavoured chocolate. If you do not like banana, you may leave it out. To make this into a real chocolatey cookie, you may add 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder.
We made this recipe with dark chocolate which is produced by adding fat and sugar to the pure cocoa solids. Dark chocolate is believed to reduce the possibility of heart attack when consume in small amount regularly. This is due it’s dark chocolate is a rich source of epicatechin and gallic acid which possess cardioprotective properties.
Ingredients
- 1 large ripe banana
- 4 oz (100g) unsalted butter, cut into pieces
- 2/3 cup (100g) soft light brown sugar
- 1 medium egg, beaten
- 1 cup (100g) all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon (2.5ml) baking powder
- 1/3 cup (50g) oats
- 4 oz (100g) dark chocolate, broken into small chunks
We usually double or triple the recipe when we cook in the community kitchen. The left over food can be brought home for our family to try.
I love butter in the 1/2 cup stick. It is much easier to cut up the quantity required. I’m glad it can be found in the Real Canadian Superstore now.
Source: Minoo
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Oats Cake
The second recipe which Minoo demonstrated in the South Arm Community Kitchen is taken from Fresh Choice. Although it is called Oats Cake, it is more like a cookie or granola bar.
The Oats Cake is crispy when it’s fresh from the oven. I noticed that it turns soft the next day for those extras that we took home. These Oats Cake makes a great after school snack.
Ingredients
- 2 cups unbleached flour
- 2 cups rolled oats (we used quick cooking oats)
- 2/3 cups brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda (I’ll recommend reduce this by 1/4 teaspoon as the oats cake has a hint of bitterness to it but if you eat it with jam, you will not taste the bitterness)
- 1 cup butter
- 1/3 cup cold water
Source: Fresh Choice
Serves 8 portions
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Chinese Almond Cookies
Marian completes the Chinese theme cooking session at the South Arm Cooking Club for Seniors with a Chinese Almond Cookies. There are a number of the members who have sweet tooth like me.
The Chinese Almond Cookies are buttery and crisp. Love the presentation demonstrated by Minoo.
Stella also bought some Chinese New Year cookies for the Chinese New Year celebrations. There are some sesame balls called ‘Laughing Jo’ and some deep fried wonton skins like pastry.
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup sliced almonds
- 1 egg white
- 1/2 teaspoon water
P/S: The baking powder should not be in the photo. Also, the team doing this recipe had started creaming the sugar and butter before I took the photo of the ingredients.
Source: Marian
Yields 30 cookies
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