Chocolate Chip Walnut Breakfast Cookies

Welcome to our weekly Foodie Friday link up! I’m linking up with Annmarie from the Fit Foodie Mama, Emily from Whatever Floats Your Oats, Esther from Chocolate Runner Girl, and Cassandra from Powered By Bling, to create awesome healthy recipes each week!

This week’s theme = Cookies, mostly because today is apparently National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day! Make sure you hop around to check out all the amazing recipes in this link up and feel free to add your own recipe as well!

I don’t tend to make cookies all that often, mostly because I live alone and would likely eat the entire batch in one sitting. (sigh) These could probably also be called compost cookies because as per usual, I was trying to use up a whole ton of ingredients. :O

I got the black + orange chocolate chips back in early December because they were on super-sale (after Halloween + Thanksgiving had ended), and my mom had also sent me a giant 3-lb. Costco bag of walnuts somewhere last year that I’m still working through.

I also picked up Nature’s Path cornflakes a while ago and never got around to eating it (although they did make their debut in my Peanut Butter Cornflake No-Bakes!). Needless to say, I had to come up with excuses to use all this stuff up. :O The gluten-free flour was obtained from my friend (thanks, Monika! <3), because she gave me a bunch of edible substances when she was moving out at the end of second year.

I can’t exactly say I’m done using up any of them, but at least I made a little dent, right?!

These don’t exactly have the consistency of cookies, and almost look like super un-fancy meringues. (They taste nothing like meringues.). If anything, they’re more like cake cookies, but yay being relatively healthy cake-cookies?

We made these during our leftover potluck last month, and I would have them with tea in the mornings before (or during) didactics. :D

The recipe doesn’t exactly yield the prettiest cookies ever, but they’re rather tasty, and only take call for 5 ingredients! (Yayyy! :D ) The yield really depends on your size preference for cookies, but it made approximately 20 cookies for us!

Chocolate Chip Walnut Breakfast Cookies

Ingredients:

• 2 cups gluten-free all-purpose flour (I used Glutino)
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup Earth Balance (or butter, if not vegan)
• 1/2 cup walnuts, chopped
• 1/3 cup chocolate chips
• 1/2 – 3/4 cup cornflakes (I used Nature’s Path)

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 400.
2. Melt butter + add all ingredients into a bowl and mix until well-combined.
3. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until they pass the toothpick test.

End-of-Week-ish Recap!

• What with the beautiful weather lately, I feel like I need to share that it’s Skin Cancer Awareness Month! Read more about it + things you can do to prevent it!
• Ever wonder how it is that I spend only $50/month on food/groceries per month? Check out some of my tips here!
• Have you heard of Adam Sobel’s new cookbook, Street Vegan! Check out my review here!
• Back in February, I wrote a “10 Confessions” post and was asked by a few friends to elaborate on Confession #5, so I opened up and talked about my first “relationship,” and how I adopted the mentality of treating negative situations as learning experiences.

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