Oatmeal cookies with steel cut oats, coconut, and raisins
March 25, 2010 at 3:30 pm (C (2 stars, okay, edible), Cookies, Dessert, Website / blog)
I was trying to use up a container of very fine ground steel cut oats before Passover. I thought it would be interesting to try to use the steel cut oats to make oatmeal cookies, but I couldn’t find many such recipes. There are a few out there that call for a small portion of steel cut oats that are cooked before adding them to the cookie batter. I was looking for a recipe that used a larger quantity of uncooked oats. In the end I used a combination of these two recipes from the Anson Mills website: oatmeal coconut cookies and oatmeal raisin cookies. I didn’t have a full cup of coconut (and mine was unsweetened), so I added some raisins to compensate.
The cookies came out huge. They actually looked just like the cookies in the picture. The texture was very light and fluffy, and the taste was oaty but not very sweet. Derek said that they tasted more like scones than cookies. Maybe, but the recipe called for way more sugar than a typical scone recipe.
I served these cookies to guests at our poker game. I thought they tasted too healthy and no one would eat them, but all but two got eaten up. I sent the last two home with a guest who had really enjoyed them. Then the next day Derek asked where the cookies were. I told him I’d given the last two away since he didn’t seem to like them, and he about-faced and claimed that he did indeed like them and was not at all pleased that I’d given the last cookies away!
Still, I don’t think I’d make these cookies again. They were okay but they’re not healthy enough to be real food, and if I’m gonna eat a cookie it might as well be a marvelous one.
Rating: B-
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