{"id":579,"date":"2012-08-25T14:16:43","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T18:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/?p=579"},"modified":"2012-08-25T14:16:43","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T18:16:43","slug":"green-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/green-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a sweet tooth. I also want to eat healthfully. So I’ve been making\u00a0 cookies, brownies, etc with more wholesome ingredients. I avoid using white sugar and use maple syrup and honey to sweeten things. Recently I read that avocados can be substituted for butter<\/a>. I had to try it. I started with the oatmeal recipe in More With Less<\/em> cookbook (pg ). My cookies turned out somewhat green, but they tasted really good (I used chocolate chips instead of raisins).<\/p>\n

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Avocado Oatmeal Cookies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then my friend, Marjorie, pinned a recipe for Breakfast Cookies<\/a>. I wanted to try them. I didn’t have ripe bananas or pecans; I did have two avocados, a ripe mango and walnuts and almonds. I reasoned that avocados have a lot of fat in them, so I didn’t add the coconut oil. So this is the recipe I tried:<\/p>\n