After Preschool Cookies

If you have small cookie-hungry children in the house, you're going to want to take note of this recipe, because it's going to save your behind many times at around 4pm, just before supper, when hungry bellies are gurgling and the toddlers are set on perma-whine.

Here you go:  Gluten free, refined sugar free, grain free and dairy free (but not, by any means, flavour free) After Preschool Cookies.

1 large sweet potato, peeled and cubed
1 Tbsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
1/4 tsp allspice
1/2 cup golden raisins
1/2 cup grated unsweetened coconut
1 egg

Steam your sweet potato cubes until nice and soft.  Then drain the water from your steaming pot and place it back on the burner with the heat turned off.  Mash the sweet potatoes in the hot pot until nice and fluffy.  I used a hand mixture for this. The extra heat helps get rid of moisture and 'dry out' the potatoes.  You don't want a wet cookie.

Mix potatoes together with spices, raisins and coconut until well blended.  Beat in egg at the end.  Spoon by 1 Tbsp amounts onto a greased cookie sheet and bake 5-10 minutes (the bottoms should be brown, but not dark) in a 350 F oven.

Note:  The cookies won't rise or flatten in the oven, so make sure your batter is in the shape you want your cookies to end up in.  I flatten my cookies slightly.



I don't know why the raisins show up as green, because they are not.  :-)  My camera is clearly not all that functional.