Deb and I headed back to my house yesterday afternoon and realized we’d be back to our regular ho-hum breakfasts instead of the try ‘3’ Oatmeal dishes Shari had whipped up for us during our 3 of 4 sister get together for March.

I shot a quick email off to Shari asking “what’s for breakfast”, so she shot me back an idea for German Chocolate Oatmeal Bake, which one of us will write and review in another post. The short story… Deb and I whipped it up, tweaked it a bit and really liked it.

After breakfast, while Deb packed and got ready for Dale to come pick her up from here, I went chasing down one of those infamous rabbit holes where you’re looking for something and end up finding something else. That’s how I ended up finding the recipe below.

To give credit to the site I found it on, It was called the:

5 Ingredient Chewy Vanilla Coconut Cookies
https://foodfolio.net/recipes/29859/5-ingredient-chewy-vanilla-coconut-cookies/

I’d bought 3 lemons a few weeks ago and after looking at the ingredients, told Deb “I think this would be good with some lemon zest”. She agreed, so here is what we ended up with. (please note, there’s only one egg in the picture, but 2 in the recipe… go with 2.)

 

P3280121 2 cup finely shredded medium shredded coconut
1/2 cup almond flour
1/2 cup unpasteurized (raw) honey
2 eggs
2 tsp pure vanilla extract
Pinch of Himalayan Sea Salt (any salt would do I?m sure)
Zest of 1 lemon  plus 1 teaspoon lemon juice (lemon not pictured since it was an after thought)

Now I suppose if you didn’t have a real lemon, you could use lemon extract or even lime. Either would be yummy yummy..

Preheat oven to 350F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Combine all ingredients in a large bowl and mix until combined.
Use either an 1/8 cup or 1/4 cup of mixture. Sort of round it in the cup, plop it out on your cookie sheet, and press together to flatten it out
Bake for 15-20minute, or until golden. Using the 1/4 cup measure, it made 10 3” cookies. Next time, I’ll probably use the 1/8 cup measuring cup.

Here’s all the ingredients in the “mix” stage.

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Out of the oven right at 20 minutes later, they were a bit brown on the bottom
but ummmm ummmm good and chewy

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It’s pretty rare for me to actually cook raw honey, but I did!

For a quick yummy, fairly good for you cookie, give them a try and let me know that you think.

And as the French are known for saying:

Bon appétit

Which actually means:  enjoy your meal … LOL

Til the next time…

You’re never too young or too old  … So ……

Live Every Moment,

    Love Beyond Words,

Laugh Everyday,

~Jennifer