Plantain Cookies

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 24
• 1 cup spelt or 1 cup wheat flour
• 3 cups rolled quick-cooking oats (oatmeal)
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 2 teaspoons ground allspice
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1 cup coconut, shredded,unsweetened
• 3 cups raisins
• 2 plantains, ripe
• 1 cup apple juice
• pecan halves

Recipe

• 1 preheat your oven to 350 degrees f.
• 2 (175 degrees c.) place the spelt, or whole wheat flour, and the quick rolled oats (oatmeal) in a bowl and mix together.
• 3 add the cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, and cloves and mix well.
• 4 add the coconut and 2 cups of the raisins and mix well to ensure that the raisins are not sticking together, and that they are thoroughly coated with the flour mixture.
• 5 place the apple juice, peeled plantains, and the remaining cup of raisins in the container of a high speed blender.
• 6 cover and run at high speed until all the ingredients are thoroughly blended and smooth.
• 7 add the plantain-raisin mixture (liquid) to the flour mixture (dry) and mix thoroughly with a stiff spatula or spoon.
• 8 after adding all the blended, liquid ingredients, if the cookie dough is too stiff you may add a little more apple juice.
• 9 a thinner dough will make a flatter cookie.
• 10 a stiff dough will make irregular, thick cookies like the ones shown in the photo.
• 11 (to test for dough stiffness, we stick a soup spoon upright into the dough. if the dough is stiff enough, the spoon will remain upright.) on a non-stick or lightly oiled baking sheet, place the cookie dough in 24 equal sized"mounds.
• 12 "smooth and shape each cookie with a spoon or spatula, as desired.
• 13 place the pecan halves on the top of each cookie and press lightly into the dough.
• 14 place the baking sheet in the preheated oven and bake at 350 degrees f.
• 15 for 20-25 minutes.
• 16 various ovens bake differently, so we suggest that you begin checking the cookies after 15-20 minutes of baking.
• 17 the cookies should be firm, but still soft enough to be a little"springy.
• 18 "be careful not to over-bake.
• 19 when the plantain coconut raisin oatmeal spice cookies are baked, remove from the oven, cool, and enjoy.