California Walnut Breakfast Cookies
California Walnut Board
- Yield: 100 servings
- Prep: 10 mins
- Cook: 10 mins
Ingredients
- 3cups butter
- 1/2cup plus 2 tablespoons applesauce
- 6 3/4cups brown sugar
- 5cups pineapple, crushed (in juice)
- 1 1/2teaspoons vanilla
- 3tablespoons maple flavoring
- 10cups all-purpose flour
- 2 1/4cups nonfat dry milk
- 2tablespoons ground cinnamon
- 2tablespoons baking soda
- 1teaspoon salt
- 10cups oatmeal
- 6cups dates or raisins
- 6cups California walnuts, chopped
Instructions
- Cream butter, applesauce and sugar in mixer bow.
- Add crushed pineapple with juice, vanilla and maple flavoring.
- Combine flour, dry milk, cinnamon, baking soda and salt. Blend into creamed mixture.
- Blend in oats, dates (or raisins) and California walnuts.
- Using 16# scoop, drop cookie dough onto baking pan. Flatten slightly.
- Bake at 350F for 12 to 15 minutes in a conventional oven or at 325F for 10 to 12 minutes in a convection oven.
Recipe by Vanna Lynn White, Three Oaks Elementary School, Ft. Myers, Fla.
Nutritional Info *per serving
- Calories 300
- Glycemic Load 4
- Fat 11g
- Saturated Fat 4g
- Polyunsaturated Fat 3.5g
- Monounsaturated Fat 3g
- Cholesterol 15mg
- Sodium 170mg
- Potassium 270mg
- Carbohydrate 46g
- Fiber 3g
- Sugars 23g
- Protein 7g
- Trans Fat 0g
- Vitamin A 4%
- Vitamin C 2%
- Calcium 8%
- Iron 10%
