No Sugar Fruit Cookies
photo by kelly in TO
- Ready In:
- 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Yields:
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2 dozen
- Serves:
- 24
ingredients
- 1 cup chopped dates
- 1⁄2 cup finely chopped peeled apple
- 1⁄2 cup raisins
- 1⁄2 cup water
- 1 cup flour
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons liquid sweetener
directions
- In large saucepan, mix dates, apple, raisins and water.
- Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer 3 minutes.
- Cool.
- Mix flour, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt.
- Stir into date mixture.
- Mix well.
- Mix eggs and sweetener; add to batter.
- Drop by tablespoons on nonstick sheet.
- Bake at 350* for 10 minutes.
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Reviews
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The texture is more muffin-like than that of a cookie, but, nevertheless, great tasting and so healthy too!!! I was just shy 1 cup of dates so I threw in a few dried apricots, used golden raisins, and didn't bother peeling the apple (which I grated). After reading other reviews, I used whole wheat flour. I subbed strong coffee for the water, replaced the cinnamon with a generous tsp of 4-spice, and used blackstrap molasses for the sweetener. Scooped into mini muffin pans, so I had to bake them for 15 minutes, and they turned out wonderful! Thanks MizzNezz :)
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Excellent cookie recipe. I chose these because of the list of ingredients and because they were not like other cookie recipes I have seen. I made a few subs on the recipe list in order to be able to use all organic ingredients and because my 4 yr old daughter helped make them and wanted her favorites in: organic dates, organic granny smith apple, organic raisins, organic apricot and organic papya. I also subbed the flour with white whole wheat flour and used black strap molasses as my liquid sweetener. I was not sure what to expect with these but wanted something healthy for my daughter and I. We were not disappointed at all. The texture was not as dense as I would have liked but that is only to prevent me from eating them all which i pretty much have done. I plan on using these for breakfast for myself and late nite snacking so I need them to fill me up on just one or two; but if that wasnt an issue the texture would be more than fine. The taste doesnt taste sugar free. They had a nice light natural sweetness to them. I love the nutrition facts on them and the ease of the recipe. My daugher even added a few carob chips to a few before we threw them in the oven. We will be making these on a regular rotation. Thanks so much for sharing!
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The texture is more muffin-like than that of a cookie, but, nevertheless, great tasting and so healthy too!!! I was just shy 1 cup of dates so I threw in a few dried apricots, used golden raisins, and didn't bother peeling the apple (which I grated). After reading other reviews, I used whole wheat flour. I subbed strong coffee for the water, replaced the cinnamon with a generous tsp of 4-spice, and used blackstrap molasses for the sweetener. Scooped into mini muffin pans, so I had to bake them for 15 minutes, and they turned out wonderful! Thanks MizzNezz :)
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Excellent cookie recipe. I chose these because of the list of ingredients and because they were not like other cookie recipes I have seen. I made a few subs on the recipe list in order to be able to use all organic ingredients and because my 4 yr old daughter helped make them and wanted her favorites in: organic dates, organic granny smith apple, organic raisins, organic apricot and organic papya. I also subbed the flour with white whole wheat flour and used black strap molasses as my liquid sweetener. I was not sure what to expect with these but wanted something healthy for my daughter and I. We were not disappointed at all. The texture was not as dense as I would have liked but that is only to prevent me from eating them all which i pretty much have done. I plan on using these for breakfast for myself and late nite snacking so I need them to fill me up on just one or two; but if that wasnt an issue the texture would be more than fine. The taste doesnt taste sugar free. They had a nice light natural sweetness to them. I love the nutrition facts on them and the ease of the recipe. My daugher even added a few carob chips to a few before we threw them in the oven. We will be making these on a regular rotation. Thanks so much for sharing!
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Yummy soft cookies. I did find them a bit bland and not particularly fruity tasting, but they're still pretty good. The fat content is so low, these will never bee crispy cookies, but they're nice as-is. I used honey as the liquid sweetener and subbed half of the water called for for apple cider. I think this is a nice basic recipe, but could use some kicking-up, with some more spices.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
MizzNezz
United States
After DH and I moved away from the farm, and to the city...I haven't done as much cooking and very little canning. But I do come to Zaar and look for new recipes once in a while. I'm still cooking Zaar!!
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