Freezer cookies

[kareina]

When I got home from Durham last weekend it was unusually hot, not just for Luleå, but hot enough to be called rather hot pretty much anywhere on the planet, and there was no wind and the humidity was also kinda high, making it rather oppressive both outside and in the upstairs of the house (thank goodness we have a basement, which remained pleasant—I have been sleeping there. Since then the temperatures have eased a bit and there is now a breeze, so we have gone down to only “hot for this far north”, but my friends in Australia or California would call it a nice late spring/early summer day. However, I am a delicate flower who doesn’t care for even this much heat, so I am not willing to do any baking yet. Furthermore, my stash of baked goods in the freezer has been mostly eaten, and needed replenishing. Therefore I have just invented a yummy freezer cookie recipe.

Freezer cookies
2 c bananas, mashed
1 c strawberries, chopped
3/4 c almonds, chopped
1/3 c almond meal
4 cups rolled oats

Mash the fruit together, stir in the nuts, blend in the oats. Press into silicon muffin cups. Freeze. Makes 18 (1/4 cup dough each)

These were even better than yesterday’s little test version (which was 1 banana, about the same amount of chopped walnuts, and enough oats to bring the total to 50% oats)

Comments

[katerit]

Nice adaptation. Being a Californian I will have use for this.

[kareina]

Making them this large gives big chunks of cookies that one has to nibble slowly as they thaw enough to sink one's teeth into. I suspect that if one made flattened balls of dough around 1 tablespoon of dough they would be easier to eat. (I think I will keep making them large--they last longer that way, and one doesn't feel as tempted to eat something else straight away.)