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Monday, December 12, 2011
Apple Butter Flax Seed Cookie
by Erika Nicole Kendall
Long live the “potty cookie!”
- 2tbsp butter, softened
- 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
- 3tbsp flax seed
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup oats
- 1/3 cup apple butter
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon milk
- 1/4 cup raisins
Pre-heat your oven at 350 degrees. Mix your wet ingredients together in one bowl, except for the milk. Mix your dry ingredients together in another bowl. Slowly pour your dry ingredients into your wet ones, and then pour the milk over the top. Mix together, and stir until you get a good thick mixture. Form your inch high cookie balls, and line them up on your non-stick pan (if you don’t have non-stick, that’s ok – you’ll just have to use a little extra oil to keep your cookies from sticking. Just use the oil to grease the pan a bit.)
Bake for approx 15mins, or until you gauge that the cookies aren’t raw on the insides. Before you know it, pow – yummy cookies that have plenty of fiber in them and good stuff for your tummy!
No, you may not eat the entire batch!
Looking to count the nutritional info? Grab a SparkPeople account or a calorie counting app and plug in the ingredients!
Try this recipe, take a photo and send it in! E-mail your photo to photos@blackgirlsguidetoweightloss.com or send it via twitter to @inetespionage!
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Thanks Erika! I’m putting the ingredients on the shopping list and looking forward to trying the recipe this weekend.
Happy 4th of July to you and your family!
—Rita
Yes! Tell me how it goes!
—Erika
They sound delicious! What’s the oven temperature? I didn’t see that listed anywhere.
—Sarah
Whoops! 350!
—Erika
@Erika: Thanks so much! I have a lot of flaxseed that I’m trying to incorporate into my eating plan, and I also have some homemade apple butter in my fridge, so this recipe came st the perfect time!
—Sarah
Yes! I looooove homemade apple butter. Makes me want to go have a sandwich now, LOL!
—Erika
Whoa! How’d I miss this? Are the flax seeds still whole or milled? Or does it matter? (I have both in my cupboard, along w/ flax seed oil in the fridge. I’m a little obsessed
)
—EmilyLovida
They’re whole – milled ones don’t have the same amount of fiber in ‘em.
Perfectly “healthy” obsession.
—Erika
I am trying this recipe ASAP. I love apple butter!!! I’m new the flax seed…but I will give it a try.
—Erica
What will happen if I use the cold flaxseed oil from the fridge?
—Amora
In place of the flax seeds? It’s not the same effect – you need the actual seeds.
—Erika
How do you make apple butter? I haven’t seen it in the store and I wanted to make these for my holiday cookies!
—kanguru
I made these cookies last night I really enjoyed them I use milles flax seed because that was all I had but the were still very good my baby girl loved them.
—Sadiyah
I haven’t seen apple butter in years. Can applesauce be a substitute?
—Vicx
Yeah, but you can also always make your own apple butter, especially since the apple butters I see in the stores nowadays have high fructose corn syrup in ‘em.
—Erika Nicole Kendall
Erika,
Can you give us the recipe for apple butter? Also, what about peanut butter? Do you have a brand/type that you prefer? There are so many to choose from and the ones I have tasted without sugar are not very tastey. Any suggestions?
—Karen G
I am definitely going to try these, but a couple websites I’ve been to suggested that flax seeds should be ground first since most you eat whole go out whole as well. (Hey, if we’re talking about pooping…) Do you grind yours? I don’t have a coffee grinder, so it might be time to find my friend’s old mortar and pestle…
—Bannef
I find that the least ground-up they are, the stronger they are in the cookie (and in your system.) Just sayin’. LOL
—Erika Nicole Kendall
I made the cookies tonight and they are DELICIOUS!!!
—Tracey
Just made a batch. OMG! They are de-li-cious!!! I am a sweets girl, cookies, cakes, all types of pastries and have not had any baked sweets in at least a month since finding the site and starting clean eating. These cookies are just the occasional treat I have been hoping to find so I can stay on track. Awesome recipe! Thanks so much for sharing.
—TLS
I made a batch of these tonight, and they are delicious. But they came out in a cakey, bready texture. I followed the instructions and the ingredient list. I’m not complaining, I like the cookies. But are they supposed to come out bread-like? Just curious.
—kimsy
I cannot WAIT to make these cookies. A healthy treat that serves a bigger purpose!
Could you share your apple butter recipe?
Thanks!
—Whitley Brooks
These sound gorgeous! I do have a question though – I live in the UK and have never heard of apple butter (I had to google it!). I wondered if you have a recipe for it – even if it is a link to another website or something – because I’m a little unsure how to go about finding a good recipe, mainly because I have no clue what the end result will even look like, nevermind how it will taste! Thanks so much for sharing this recipe with us!
—Starry
Here’s the recipe I use to make mine, but I use granny smith apples and add, maybe, a fourth of a cup of honey to get it done.
—Erika Nicole Kendall