Wheels of Steel Cookies

I halved the recipe. I used figs, dried apricots, raisins, wheat germ, coconut, oats and lots of sunflower seeds. I didn't use any choc chips or carob chips.I found my dough to sticky for rolling so I used a cookie scoop and then flattened them. I got about 35 cookies and baked for 12 min. but I found the bottoms a little too brown on the first batch so I lowered the temp. to 350 for the rest. I didn't use any sesame seeds. I am eating them now and they are very good. Thanks Winkki for the great recipe.

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When the chef tells you that their recipe makes a lot of cookies, you should probably believe them. This one over-ran my mixer's largest bowl and I had to move it to my huge tupperware bowl and finish it by hand. I followed the recipe quantities as written and ended up with something like 14 dozen (which is a HUGE quantity for the two of us). The next time we make them, I'll make sure to halve the recipe for a more normal sized batch. I doubled up on the sunflower seeds because I like them (Winkki said that this recipe is very forgiving of substitutions), subbed quinoa seeds for the sesame seeds (because I had them on hand), and butter scotch chips for the carob (for the same reason). I also found that the cookies turned out better baked (for me, anyway) if they were baked at 350° for a minute or so longer than the recipe calls for.

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I used to make a similar recipe when my kids were small. Recently my daughter who is grown and in an intense accelerated college program asked me if i remembered them and would I make them again? Apparently the stress was slowin things down....I put flax and poppy seed in these. If they are too sticky, refrigerate them for a couple of hours or overnight.

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My 3 yo is having "trouble" lately :) so I decided to try these. They taste like healthy peanut butter cookies. I made 1/2 batch of larger cookies and got 18. Baked at 375° for about 15 min. Used dried cranberries, apricots, flax seed, oat bran, extra sunflower seeds. Used baby food prunes (4 oz) for milk. My 3 yo ate them, but started picking out all the fruit! At least he got the wheat, flax and bran! My 12 yo likes them and my picky 7 yo wouldn't try them (no surprise there.)

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These are SO yummy! My husband, 3 yr old(she has "trouble" too),and my 1 year old loved these. I followed the recipe and also used the prune baby food instead of the milk(had some left over from my son's baby food days). For the fruit I used bagged dried mixed fruit and craisins.I also had half a bag of the freeze dried Gerber banana and strawberries so I threw that in too! I rolled mine in cocount and flattened before cooking. I also froze half of the cookies(uncooked) because of the large quantity. I baked at 350 for 13 minutes. I would say the best way to describe these would be "trail mix cookies". Thanks for such a good recipe Winkki.

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I have made these twice, both times keeping to the spirit of the recipe, but both times different, depending what I had in the house to add. Both were much tastier than I expected. I tried to up the fiber in each recipe with more oats, date purée, more whole wheat flour, then adjusted the other ingredients til I had the right consistency. I made a half recipe each time and made 1/3 cup cookies I rolled in unsweetened coconut and flattened by hand. Doing this, I got about 18 breakfast sized cookies out of a half recipe. It took longer to bake them, of course, but the result gives me a breakfast with plenty of fiber. I also used honey instead of the brown sugar. Lots of possibilities with this recipe, can't wait to try more. You should keep extras in the fridge or freezer I think to keep fresh. A good one.

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