The Kind Diet Thumbprint Jam Cookies - Alicia Silverstone Recipe

Featured on Oprah, from Alicia Silverstone's recipe - these would be a healthful, fast food alternative to toast and jam or sugar cereals for kids in the morning

• Ready In: 45 mins
• Serves: 30
• Yields: 30 cookies

Ingredients

• 1  cup rolled oats
• 1  cup  almonds
• 1  cup  spelt flour
• 1⁄2 cup corn or 1⁄2 cup  safflower oil
• 1⁄4 cup maple syrup
• 1⁄4 cup  brown rice syrup
• 1  cup  jam, of your choice

Directions

1. Combine the rolled oats and almonds in a blender or food processor and process until this is the consistency of flour.
2. Pour into a large bowl and add the spelt flour.
3. Combine the oil with the maple syrup and brown rice syrup. Mix well.
4. Combine the wet and dry ingredients and mix well.
5. Make 1-inch sized balls with your hands [you can use some oil on your palms, if needed] and press flat onto a lightly oiled cookie sheet.
6. Make an indentation with your thumb into the center of each cookie.
7. Fill each cookie with a teaspoonful of jam.
8. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes.
9. NOTE: Tiptree makes the best jams - with the purest ingredients -- the raspberry seedless is awesome, the morello cherry jam, all of them really - amazon.com has them online.
10. Also, you could substitute any nut flour or gluten-free flour [pamela's pancake and baking mix is widely accepted as one of the best - also available on amazon.com].