Cookies for Cathi

Chocolate and Cathi are inseparable like mayo, or a roux, or me and my bicycle. Catching word that she has a fuji apple surplus (sounds like a home invasion of the best kind) I modified a traditional cookie recipe into a fuji apple, comice pear somewhat-healthful dairy free cookie recipe.

However, I know Cathi. What's dessert without chocolate? Why bother? There's a California Christmas Chocolate Love cookie awaiting departure from DCA and arrival in SFO.



Fuji Apple and Comice Pear Cookies
1/2 cup mashed/minced pear, peeled and cored (about 1)
1 cup apple, peeled, cored, and chopped
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 teaspoons cinnamon

1 3/4 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup rolled oats
1/2 cup unsweetened cereal
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon ground flaxseed
2 tablespoons ground pine nuts

1/3 cup canola oil
1 egg

Let the fruit stew in the sugar and cinnamon in a large bowl while you get the rest of the recipe ready.

Preheat your oven to 350F. Mix together the flour through pine nuts in a medium bowl. Beat the egg and oil in a small bowl, then add it to the apple and pear. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ones. If you'd like, fold in 1/4 cup of raisins.

Drop tablespoons of the batter onto a greased cookie sheet and bake 10-12 minutes.

Makes about 36 cookies.

Nutrition Estimate: Calories 71. Fat 2.8g. Saturated fat .3g. Total Carbohydrates 10.5g. Dietary fiber 1.4g. Sugars .2g. Protein 1.8g.