One cookie, two cookie, / banana cookie, apple cookie.

Cookie Uno: de banano

Cookie Deux: aux pommes

In honor of my nephew and my childhood, and as a tribute to the Dr. we met before Dr. Who, Dr. No, Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz, and Dr. Ozzy, I offer this little ditty:

One cookie, two cookie,

banana cookie, apple cookie.

A bowl of cookie dough,
a crunchy cookie for a snack,
and cookies for munchies that go,
                                go,
                                          go.

You can buy cookies in packs,
You can buy a cookie in a bag,
but there's always something that a storebought cookie lacks.

Can you guess what could be the snag?
Is it the cookie sheet? Is it an ingredient?
Is it the cookie's crusty cracks in a crooked zig-zag?

Though store cookies are expedient,
you'll learn to love the ones made by hand:
one cookie tastes fresh, and the other tastes canned.

 

Cookie Uno (vegan & gluten-free) 

Makes about a dozen cookies.

Ingredients:

If only eating cookie dough and not baking, you simply need the following ingredients:
2 cups gluten-free oats, ground (in blender or food processor. If you have other gluten-free flours on hand, use those instead, using the necessary substitution ratio)
2 ripe bananas, mashed (I don't like them too ripe, but to each his/her own!)
3 Tablespoons of oil, melted (microwave about 30 seconds. Any other oil should do if you don't have coconut oil on hand.)
2 Tablespoons of coconut milk
1/4 teaspoon pink Himalayan salt
1/8 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon vanilla

2 handfuls of nuts/seeds (I used 1 handful of pecans + 1 of walnuts)
1 handful of chocolate chips

Oven-caged cookies! Free the G-free!

 

Optional: 3 Tablespoons of large flake coconut pieces  (I forgot to add them to this recipe, but I did add them to the applesauce version below!)

If baking cookies, make sure to add and mix the following in thoroughly:
1/2 teaspoon guar gum
1 Tablespoons arrowroot starch
1/2 teaspoon baking soda

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
After using your blender to pulse the oats to a rough flour (and adding in the baking soda, arrowroot starch, and guar gum at this point if you intend on baking the cookies and not just going for the dough), pour your oat flour into a mixture of banana, coconut oil, coconut milk, salt, cinnamon, and vanilla. Stir well. Then gently stir in the seeds/nuts and chips. 

Now drop dough onto lightly greased cookie sheet by heaping teaspoonfuls. 

Once in oven, the cookies should be ready in 13-15 minutes. Check to see if very lightly brown on edges/tops, then take out and enjoy!

Cookie Deux (vegan & gluten-free) 

Makes about a dozen cookies.

Ingredients:

If only eating cookie dough and not baking:
2 cups gluten-free flour (or ground oats as in Cookie Uno. I used 1/2 cup of sorghum flour plus 1.5 cups of oats, ground in the Blendtek. If you have other gluten-free flours on hand, use those instead, following the necessary ratio for substitution.)
1 cup applesauce
3 Tablespoons of coconut oil, melted (microwave about 30 seconds)
2 Tablespoons of coconut milk
1/4 teaspoon pink Himalayan salt
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon (I added a bit more since I like apple+cinnamon to be stronger than banana+cinnamon)
1/8 teaspoon vanilla

2 handfuls of nuts/seeds (I used 1 handful of peanuts + 1 of cashews)
1 handful of chocolate chips

Optional: 3 Tablespoons of large flake coconut pieces (photos for Cookie Deux here have the coconut, whereas Cookie Uno does not)

If baking cookies, make sure to add and mix the following in thoroughly:
1/2 teaspoon guar gum
1 Tablespoons arrowroot starch
1/2 teaspoon baking soda

Directions: (almost identical to Cookie Uno)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
After using your blender (if you're grinding down oats to flour) to pulse the oats to a rough flour (and adding in the baking soda, arrowroot starch, and guar gum at this point if you intend on baking the cookies and not just going for the dough), pour your flour into a mixture of applesauce, oil, coconut milk, salt, cinnamon, and vanilla. Stir well. Then gently stir in the seeds/nuts and chips. 

Now drop dough onto lightly greased cookie sheet by heaping teaspoonfuls. 

Once in oven, the cookies should be ready in 13-15 minutes. Check to see if very lightly brown on edges/tops, then take out and enjoy!