Potluck #51: Holidays and Cooking and Recipes - Oh My!

Potluck #51: Holidays and Cooking and Recipes - Oh My!

Find a recipe using one of the websites listed or use your favorite recipe
Although my favorite site for food is Kraft Foods, I decided to use the Food Network website to look for a recipe. I found a Breakfast Cookie recipe that looked interesting:

Breakfast Cookies
2007 Ellie Krieger, All rights reserved
Show: Healthy Appetite with Ellie Krieger Episode: Family Way

Level: Easy Yield: 12 cookies, serving size 1 cookie
Times: Prep 20 min Cook 12 min Total:32 min

Ingredients
3/4 cup whole-wheat pastry flour
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1/4 cup canola oil
1/4 cup dark brown sugar
3 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 egg
1/4 cup (1 small jar) strained carrot baby food
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup rolled oats
1/2 cup bran cereal flakes
1/3 cup raisins
1/3 cup walnut pieces, lightly toasted in a dry skillet for 2 minutes, until fragrant and chopped

Directions
Place rack in center of oven and preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Whisk together flours, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt in a medium-sized bowl. Combine butter, oil and sugars in the bowl of a stand mixer and mix on high speed, scraping down sides if necessary, until sugars have dissolved and mixture is light in color, about 1 minute. Add egg, carrot puree and vanilla and beat an additional 30 seconds. Add flour mixture and beat an additional 30 seconds. Add oats, flakes, raisins and walnuts and mix over low speed just until incorporated. Dough will be slightly sticky and less cohesive than traditional cookie dough. Line a large cookie sheet with parchment paper. Using between 3 to 4 tablespoons of batter, form a ball and place on cookie sheet. Repeat with remaining batter, leaving about 3 inches between cookies. Wet hands and use palm of hand to flatten cookies until about 1/4-inch thick. Bake for 12 minutes, until cookies are fragrant but still soft. Let cookies cool slightly, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely


Covert the recipe either up or down.

Converting the recipe x 4 using the Recipe Ingredient Conversion Calculator yields these results:
3 cups whole-wheat pastry flour
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 teaspoons ground nutmeg
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup unsalted butter
1 cup canola oil
1 cup dark brown sugar
3/4 cup granulated sugar
4 eggs
1 cup strained carrot baby food
1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups rolled oats
2 cups bran ceral flakes
1 1/3 cups raisins
1 1/3 cups walnut pieces, lightly toasted in dry skillet & chopped

I like the site I used to convert the recipe. It doesn't just convert the numbers, but wil give you a whole "new" recipe ready to print. Very nice!

You should remember that converting a recipe up or down can change the way the recipe turns out. However, I think the recipe above will work just fine.