Prep Time: ? minutes | Cook Time: 0 minutes | Total Time: ? minutes | Yields: 40 cookies

Ingredients:

• 1 cup peanut butter
• 1/2 cup honey
• 3 cups old fashioned oats
• 1/2 cup ground flaxseed
• 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
• 1 cup any combination of nuts and soft dried fruit (try 1/2 cup coarsely chopped peanuts or almond slivers and 1/4 cup each of unsweetened dried cherries and chopped unsweetened dried apples)

Directions:

1. In a stand mixer or by hand, combine peanut butter and honey until smooth. Gradually add oats and ground flaxseed.
2. Add chocolate chips and desired nut and fruit combination, mix in gently.
3. Roll dough into golf ball-size cookies.
4. For maximum presentation value, put in paper mini muffin cups.
5. You can eat them right away, but they’ll be less sticky after a night in the fridge.
6. They freeze well too, layered on wax paper in an airtight container.

Notes: Never give honey or foods with honey to a child younger than 12 months.

Variations:

1/3 cup finely ground raw almonds
1/3 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup real maple syrup
2 TBSP ground flax
1/2 cup sunflower seeds
1/2 cup Hershey’s dark choc chips (chopped to make finer)
1/2 cup dried sour cherries

Recipe Origin: Wondertime. Great magazine that is no longer.