Chewy Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies (GF)

These are a great alternative to those expensive breakfast bars you find at the store. And like the breakfast bars, they have a LOT of sugar. But at least it's the kind of low-glycemic level sugar that is more slowly absorbed by the body. And since there are a lot of nuts in this along with eggs--they balance the sugar out. So, no one eating the cookies will experience a huge sugar high and low! Especially if they are eaten with milk...

Note: These cookies are utterly addictive. They are very chewy--and they keep well. East some and freeze some.

Ingredients:

2 C Palm sugar
2 eggs
1/2 C butter and 1/2 C solid coconut oil
1 t salt
1 t baking soda
1 t real vanilla
1/2 C almond meal
1 C good GF flour (Pamela's or King Arthur's)
3 C oatmeal (preferably gluten-free but Quaker is fine)
Any two additions: 1 C raisins or cran-raisins and/or 1 C chopped almonds or walnuts and/or 1/2 C sugar-free coconut

Note: Do not chop the almonds in a food processor--it pulverizes them! Use a mallet and a paper bag if you have to.

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Beat sugar eggs solid coconut oil butter together at high speed. When well blended beat in 1 t salt and 1 baking soda with a slow mixer then add: 1 t vanilla. Then slowly add flour and oats. Mix in any additions and scoop onto a cookie sheet with a 1 3/4-inch ice-cream scoop or with a tablespoon. Make blobs the size of golf balls. Bake for 10-14 minutes until light brown. Cool and devour with a glass of ice -cold milk --for breakfast or anytime.