The Kind Diet Thumbprint Jam Cookies - Alicia Silverstone Recipe
"Featured on Oprah, from Alicia Silverstone's recipe - these would be a healthful, fast food alternative to toast and jam or sugar cereals for kids in the morning"
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Yields:
-
30 cookies
- Serves:
- 30
ingredients
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 1 cup almonds
- 1 cup spelt flour
- 1⁄2 cup corn or 1/2 cup safflower oil
- 1⁄4 cup maple syrup
- 1⁄4 cup brown rice syrup
- 1 cup jam, of your choice
directions
- Combine the rolled oats and almonds in a blender or food processor and process until this is the consistency of flour.
- Pour into a large bowl and add the spelt flour.
- Combine the oil with the maple syrup and brown rice syrup. Mix well.
- Combine the wet and dry ingredients and mix well.
- Make 1-inch sized balls with your hands [you can use some oil on your palms, if needed] and press flat onto a lightly oiled cookie sheet.
- Make an indentation with your thumb into the center of each cookie.
- Fill each cookie with a teaspoonful of jam.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes.
- NOTE: Tiptree makes the best jams - with the purest ingredients -- the raspberry seedless is awesome, the morello cherry jam, all of them really - amazon.com has them online.
- Also, you could substitute any nut flour or gluten-free flour [pamela's pancake and baking mix is widely accepted as one of the best - also available on amazon.com].
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Reviews
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My sisters and I make this for the church picniks, and everyone loves them! We use rasberry or blackberry jam, so good! This is a great recipe, thank you for posting it! -
Yummy! Just a perfect treat after a no-sugar week. My kids said "What!? No chocolate?!" Oh well. More for me!
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56, an Army brat who has lived in 20 different locations [born in germany, went to kindergarten in japan] including new york city, palo alto CA, maine, georgia, chicago, after growing up in small-town kansas...
have some fabulous recipes from well-traveled army people...
recently started adding just a splash of bourbon or brandy to real maple syrup - and it really gives french toast or pancakes a special, more sophisticated flavor...
a friend jokes that bourbon is my new "secret ingredient" that i'll be adding to everything - it's not true but i'm telling you - you should try it! it's really very good [for adults, anyway]
sugarpea's apple pancake recipe is a deadringer for Walker Brothers Pancake House in north shore Chicago - i've searchd for this for 34 years - and it's easy as well as To Die For!!!
the Dutch Baby pancake is a huge seller there too - with the same gooey comfort-food but elegant batter...
also if you search for lettuce wrap - the 2 recipes for PF Chang's come up... this is also SO GOOD, truly a memorable entree...
for cookbooks: With a Jug of Wine, More Recipes With a Jug of Wine were written by the San Francisco Chronicle food writer decades ago - and most everything in them is superb - and i learned a lot as a new cook, young wife, from reading through them in the late 1970s... i got a [very French] sense of food as a way of life
