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When I was a small little baby girl, I was super stoked to grow up and:
Wear sunglasses like Jackie O. Stop doing homework. Shave my legs (um…. wwwhhhhyyyy!?). Stay up past 9:30. Watch all the Beverly Hills 90210 ever ever ever made. Do my own hair. Roller skate without a helmet. Play basketball better than my little sister (I can not. I mean… come on). Be a firefighter, writer, or veterinarian. Eat cookies for breakfast, Cheetos for lunch, and fried chicken and chocolate cake for dinner.
I’m a real-life grown-up now.
I’ve moved past my haphazard Jackie O phase. I’m pretty sure that email is the new homework. I shave my legs, but wow… the appeal of that pastime is loooong gone. I stay up as late as I want… because I’m grown. Beverly Hills 90210 has been replaced by Real Housewives of Minnetonka. I get my hair done did…. and that feels nice. I wear a helmet because I’m totally over trying to look cute. I’m totally into trying to look alive. I realized I don’t like fire, dictionaries, or sick animals. I don’t eat Cheetos for lunch. If I ate fried chicken and chocolate cake everyday I would be a happy and hefty lady.
But! but but but but but….. I can totally have cookies for breakfast.
I may have known absolutely nothing about my adult self as a young youth…. Meh! At least now there are cookies, and coffee, and iPhones.
These are happy happy cookies! Major.
They’re absolutely filled with good for you stuffs!
Whole wheat flour. Oats. Millet. Carrots. Dried cherries. Maple Syrup. Coconut oil. and Ginger!
Amazing!
I didn’t say any words like butter, chocolate, peanut butter, cupcake, nutella, marshmallows. I didn’t say aaaany of those words! It sorta made me twitch a little.
These breakfast cookies are entirely wholesome and totally delicious. They’re moist, soft, and cakey… like carrot cake with a crunch. They have just a hint of coconut flavor (from the oil), a little zip from the ginger, and a perfect tartness from the dried cherries. I am totally obsessed!
If you eat one whole rushing out of the house, into your car, into traffic, spilling your coffee, forgetting your cell phone, trying to get to work… I assure you, you’ll feel like a real-life grown-up. For better or worse.
Carrot Millet Breakfast Cookies
makes about 2 dozen cookies
adapted from 101 Cookbooks
1 1/2 cups whole wheat pastry flour (or all-purpose flour)
1 cup old-fashioned oats
3 tablespoons dry millet
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup coconut oil, melted
1/2 cup real maple syrup
heaping 1 cup shredded carrots
1/2 cup dried cherries, coarsely chopped
2 teaspoons fresh grated ginger
Place racks in the center and upper third of the oven and preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, oats, millet, cinnamon, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
In another medium bowl, whisk together coconut oil, maple syrup, shredded carrots, dried cherries, and ginger. Add the wet ingredients, all at once to the dry ingredients. Fold together until thoroughly incorporated. Let dough stand for 5 minutes before spooning by the tablespoonful onto the prepared baking sheets.
Bake for 10 minutes, or until just slightly browned and cooked through. I like these cookies a bit underdone. Remove from the oven, allow to cool on the cookie sheet for 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 4 days. The fresher the cookies are, the better the are… obviously.
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wow, I could so feed these to my pet parrots as well minus the oil part. def will have to try these. one batch for me and one batch for my birds.
I made these yesterday — I didn’t have coconut oil so I used butter. And I substituted dried cranberries for the cherries and I also added some shredded unsweetened coconut. Super good! They are addicting!!
I don’t have any millet but I have a big bag of amaranth lying around. Do you think you can substitute the millet with amaranth? I’ve never cooked with either.
i’ve never cooked with amaranth.. so i’m not entirely sure. sorry!
joy – i feel like i always say the same thing…THANK YOU!! i just made these for our 2cd thursday meeting for the docs and the midwives and they are going to be thrilled. i admit i cut the oil a little ( no coconut, used safflower) and the maple syrup a bit; added some candied and dried ginger. you are an amazing baker and you make a LOT of people happy.
This sounds pretty amazing. They look like some of the soft scones (of the non-triangular variety) that I’ve made in the past, only healthier but with more bad press (I mean, really, cookies makes it sound like it cannot ever in a million years be good for you). I have carrots from the farmer’s market and some wheat germ that I can use in place of the millet. Awesome!
Ok, I’ve just discovered your blog this morning and have already bookmarked about 3 recipes. It might be a new favorite. Thanks to Shutterbean for sending me over here. :-)
I made these today. I couldn’t find coconut oil or dried cherries so went with grape seed oil and raisins. Lots of spicy ginger (yum) and rice-chestnut flour with xanthum gum to make them gluten free.
They are sooo good!
(It was the millet that seduced me and that crunchy touch makes the recipe). (Oh, and I had a bunch of runt carrots from the garden to use up too).
I made these today and am keeping this recipe for life. So good! It took a while to find dried cherries but my local Whole Foods carries ONE KIND — the Eden brand and on the top shelf so they’re hard to find. I knew I wanted to hold out for cherries and not use a substitute and it was totally worth it.
I went to Minnetonka High School, so I just had a mini heart attack when I read “Real Housewives of Minnetonka.” Phew, they aren’t actually making that version!
These just came out of the oven! I substituted cranberries for cherries because my grocery store did not carry any, but they are still amazingly delicious! Thanks for yet another excellent recipe. I will be living off of these for the next few days :)
I just made this today. I had to sub. quinoa (for millet) and cranberries for the cherries, but these cookies are AMAZING! Woo Hoo!
yum! made with butter instead of coconut oil and came out great. next time I’ll spread them out a little more before baking b/c they stayed in almost the exact shape I put them on the sheet.
So I was hoping you could tell me what I can sub in for the whole wheat if I’m attempting to go gluten free for a bit… just an experiment mind you, so if I eat wheat I won’t puff up and die. So, I’ve got some barely flour and teff flour recently, have no idea why, they just looked good and I thought, why not? Can I use them in place of the wheat flour? Or do I have to add other things? (learning about potato starch, arrowroot starch, xanthum gum… what?)
Thanks!!!
I’m so excited to make these! I’ve been looking for a healthy breakfast cookie. This is perfect! Also, I too wanted to grow up and shave my legs and bike without a helmet. Of course, now shaving is dull and biking without a helmut is a nicht gut idea. Thanks for sharing!
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