soilman
06-18-06, 04:21 PM
3-minute oat cookie with exploding blueberries
Catagory: Cookies
Suitable for a: vegan diet
Ingredients:
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3 Tablespoons rolled oats (use 5-minute oats such as Quaker "Old Fashioned" Rolled Oats)
3 Tablespoons maple syrup
2 Tablespoon water
2/3 to 3/4 of 1/4 of a tablespoon (1/6 to 3/16) of salt
1/8 Teaspoon cinnamon
pinch nutmeg
2 teaspoons of sugar
1/2 teaspoon of arrowroot flour or corn starch
1 Tablespoon canola oil
About 2 Tablespoons (white) wheat flour
3 pecans
8 blueberries
1/16 of a teaspoon of baking soda
2 drops lemon juice
Instructions:
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You only need 3 minutes in the microwave, to cook it. Makes one giant cookie. Takes a minute to mix up the batter. You need to soak your rolled oats for 5 minutes or more if you are going to microwave it. Only about a minute, if you are going to bake it in an ordinary oven.
Put 3 tablespoons of rolled oats in a bowl. Use the 5-minute oats (such as Quaker "Old Fashioned" Rolled Oats). Add 3 tablespoons of maple syrup and 2 teaspoons of water. Let soak 5 minutes or a bit more.
Add about 2/3 to 3/4 of 1/4 of a tablespoon (1/6 to 3/16) of salt. Add about 1/8 of a teaspoon of ground cinnamon, and just a tiny pinch of ground nutmeg. Add 2 teaspoons of sugar. Add 1/2 teaspoon of arrowroot flour or corn starch. Add 1 tablespoon of canola oil. Then add (white) wheat flour until you have a batter consistency. Not too runny, but not quite stiff either. Very roughly, I think I used about 2 tablespoons of flour. Stir up thoroughly.
Add the meat of 3 pecans, broken up into small pieces. Add 8 blueberries. Stir them in. Coat an ordinary dinner plate very lightly with canola oil. Spread it on thinly, then wipe the plate with a paper towel.
Juice a lemon. Add about 1/16 of a teaspoon of baking soda to the batter. Add 2 drops of lemon juice, from an eye-dropper, to the batter. No more. This is not for flavor, it is to make sure the batter is just slightly acid. If you add to much, it will hurt the flavor. Stir thoroughly. Immediately pour the batter onto the lubricated dinner plate.
Set the microwave at high heat and 3 minutes. The cookie will rise rather rapidly, approximately doubling in size. Then it will start to shrink, and split a bit. The cookie is done just when it just starts to shrink and split.
Scrape it off the plate with a spatula. I haven't figured out how to keep cookies from coming sticking to the plate. I know all the tricks for getting cookies, cakes, and breads, to easily separate from a glass or metal baking dish, but the microwave seems to make things stick. So, just scrape. You will have a slightly damaged bottom. It won't look real nice, but if you scrape carefully only a few bit will stick to the plate. The plate will wash easily. Just soak it for about 10 minutes.
Additional comments:
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Nice and chewy.
If you want, you might want to try pricking the blueberries before baking, in an attempt to keep them from exploding. Mine exploded, but did not make a noise or splatter blueness on the inside surfaces of the microwave. They just kind of burst open and spread out. I kind of liked this effect, even tho I had been planning on having whole blueberries in the final product.
Catagory: Cookies
Suitable for a: vegan diet
Ingredients:
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3 Tablespoons rolled oats (use 5-minute oats such as Quaker "Old Fashioned" Rolled Oats)
3 Tablespoons maple syrup
2 Tablespoon water
2/3 to 3/4 of 1/4 of a tablespoon (1/6 to 3/16) of salt
1/8 Teaspoon cinnamon
pinch nutmeg
2 teaspoons of sugar
1/2 teaspoon of arrowroot flour or corn starch
1 Tablespoon canola oil
About 2 Tablespoons (white) wheat flour
3 pecans
8 blueberries
1/16 of a teaspoon of baking soda
2 drops lemon juice
Instructions:
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You only need 3 minutes in the microwave, to cook it. Makes one giant cookie. Takes a minute to mix up the batter. You need to soak your rolled oats for 5 minutes or more if you are going to microwave it. Only about a minute, if you are going to bake it in an ordinary oven.
Put 3 tablespoons of rolled oats in a bowl. Use the 5-minute oats (such as Quaker "Old Fashioned" Rolled Oats). Add 3 tablespoons of maple syrup and 2 teaspoons of water. Let soak 5 minutes or a bit more.
Add about 2/3 to 3/4 of 1/4 of a tablespoon (1/6 to 3/16) of salt. Add about 1/8 of a teaspoon of ground cinnamon, and just a tiny pinch of ground nutmeg. Add 2 teaspoons of sugar. Add 1/2 teaspoon of arrowroot flour or corn starch. Add 1 tablespoon of canola oil. Then add (white) wheat flour until you have a batter consistency. Not too runny, but not quite stiff either. Very roughly, I think I used about 2 tablespoons of flour. Stir up thoroughly.
Add the meat of 3 pecans, broken up into small pieces. Add 8 blueberries. Stir them in. Coat an ordinary dinner plate very lightly with canola oil. Spread it on thinly, then wipe the plate with a paper towel.
Juice a lemon. Add about 1/16 of a teaspoon of baking soda to the batter. Add 2 drops of lemon juice, from an eye-dropper, to the batter. No more. This is not for flavor, it is to make sure the batter is just slightly acid. If you add to much, it will hurt the flavor. Stir thoroughly. Immediately pour the batter onto the lubricated dinner plate.
Set the microwave at high heat and 3 minutes. The cookie will rise rather rapidly, approximately doubling in size. Then it will start to shrink, and split a bit. The cookie is done just when it just starts to shrink and split.
Scrape it off the plate with a spatula. I haven't figured out how to keep cookies from coming sticking to the plate. I know all the tricks for getting cookies, cakes, and breads, to easily separate from a glass or metal baking dish, but the microwave seems to make things stick. So, just scrape. You will have a slightly damaged bottom. It won't look real nice, but if you scrape carefully only a few bit will stick to the plate. The plate will wash easily. Just soak it for about 10 minutes.
Additional comments:
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Nice and chewy.
If you want, you might want to try pricking the blueberries before baking, in an attempt to keep them from exploding. Mine exploded, but did not make a noise or splatter blueness on the inside surfaces of the microwave. They just kind of burst open and spread out. I kind of liked this effect, even tho I had been planning on having whole blueberries in the final product.