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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 Beverly Hills 90210 has been replaced by Real Housewives of Minnetonka.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.
Nikki @ The Tolerant Vegan
These look so good! I’d eat carrot cake 24/7 if I could and this seems like the perfect, responsible alternative.
Sarah-Anne
you are so grown up Joy…I mean: healthy cookies for breakfast?! you rock.
lynn @ the actor's diet
you had me at cookie…
B
The list of things I fantasized about as a young girl cracks me up now. Marrying Johnathan Taylor Thomas, getting boobies, and I totally wanted to shave as well (I remember fighting with my mom the second I graduated to middle school about this fact). I also wanted to wear bright red lipstick every day (ha!), and reallyreallyREALLY wanted to wear heels every day. These days it’s a dash of lip balm and flats but somehow I think 9yr old Beth would still think 23yr old Beth is cool regardless of how far I strayed.
Ps. I’m totally making these cookies, like, as soon as I get off work. It’s going to be delicious and my roommates are probably going to hug me for it :)
Becca @ Cook, Rejoice, Repeat
There seems to be an epidemic of breakfast cakes and cookies going around.
This is absolutely OK with me.
I love the idea of this recipe! There is so much healthy goodness going on in there. I’ll have to put them on my to-make list.
Gina @ Running to the Kitchen
I’ve made 101 Cookbook’s carrot oatmeal cookies before. Uh-mazing! So I’m sure these are great too. Sometimes no chocolate isn’t necessarily a bad thing ;)
Sarah
When you tweeted that you were making cookies into breakfast, my brain figured you had cookies of some sort that you were eating for breakfast thereby making them into breakfast. To your tweet I thought, “yeah…just add milk.”
These are actually breakfast cookies! Yay!
la domestique
When I was a kid, I really wanted to be a grown up. Now I like it, a lot. Especially the cookies for breakfast part.
Erika - The Teenage Taste
I’m not a fan of the whole Facebook comment thang…it’s a privacy thing. :-?
Anywho… those breakfast cookies look delish!
elisha ;)
agreed on the fb thang…I much prefer to read comments right here on your site!
A Tablespoon of Liz
These look so good! Any sentence with ‘cookie’ and ‘breakfast’ in it is for me! Carrot and cherry sound like such a winning combination of flavors as well.
Nicole @ Bake Me Blush
I could definitely go for some cookies for breakfast… Delicious AND good for you? Yes, please!
Emalee
I read your post and I went “What? Real housewives of Minnetonka?!?”
Is this a real thing? And are you talking about Minnetonka, MN?
Anyway, your breakfast cookies look delicious!
Michelle
Forget the real adult things like bills and stupid obligation that we feel. Other than that it is pretty awesome to ummmmm….. be around fun kids and live a little vicariously through them. …… I also just go ride my bike and forget all the real adult things for a few hours. Come home and eat cookies…..
char @ char on a mission
Wow, these look awesome. Totally agree with the cookie for breakfast thing – let’s break all the rules. What’s next on the list?!
Victoria (District Chocoholic)
I do not understand why the term “breakfast cookie” is not used more commonly.