Day 8 of my 12 days of cookies: Maple Granola Cookies. This recipe comes from the back of the Cascadian Farm Organic granola box that I buy from the grocery store. I always buy this brand of granola to put into my vanilla yogurt because it’s favored out of the many accessible ones that I’ve tried. It’s sweet, extra crunchy, and has the perfect sized clusters. It’s the next best thing after McDonald’s fruit and yogurt parfait granola. If I could buy that stuff in bulk, I’d be all over it.
One day while pouring the granola out, I noticed that there was a recipe on the back of the box for maple granola cookies. How did I miss that the last 25 times I poured granola into my yogurt? I pulled my previous box out of the recycle bin to make sure it wasn’t something new that they added. Nope, the same recipe was on that box, too.
I’m a true believer that if things are on the back of boxes, cartons, or bags, then it has to be worthy. Why else would they put something on the back of thousands of their products for everyone to see? I mean, they could put whatever they wanted to: their face.. a riddle.. a cardboard cutout of a rhinoserous…
….but no, they chose to put numbers and words. Boring, right? There has to be a reason for their nonsense.
Sure enough, there was. These cookies are awesome. They’re sweet, but not overwhelmingly so. The granola softens just the teeniest bit after being baked in with the dough, resulting in an almost (but not quite) oatmeal cookie. You’d think you lose the maple flavor after being baked, but it shines right through in the end. Enjoy these cookies on a cold winter night!
From Cascadian Farm
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 eggs
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 4 cups Cascadian Farm® organic maple brown sugar granola
- 3/4 cup raisins (I left these out)
- 3/4 cup chopped pecans
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Cream together the butter, sugars, vanilla, and eggs.
- Stir in flour, baking soda and salt until well mixed.
- Add in granola, raisins and pecans.
- Drop by rounded tablespoons onto baking sheet.
- Bake for 11 to 13 minutes or until light golden brown.
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