Plantain Cookies

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Ingredients:

1 cup spelt or 1 cup wheat flour
3 cups rolled quick-cooking oats oatmeal
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
2 teaspoons ground allspice
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1 cup coconut shreddedunsweetened
3 cups raisins
2 plantains ripe
1 cup apple juice
pecan halves

Steps:

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F
175 degrees C Place the spelt
or whole wheat flour
and the quick rolled oats oatmeal in a bowl and mix together
Add the cinnamon
allspice
nutmeg
and cloves and mix well
Add the coconut and 2 cups of the raisins and mix well to ensure that the raisins are not sticking together
and that they are thoroughly coated with the flour mixture
Place the apple juice
peeled plantains
and the remaining cup of raisins in the container of a high speed blender
Cover and run at high speed until all the ingredients are thoroughly blended and smooth
Add the plantain-raisin mixture liquid to the flour mixture dry and mix thoroughly with a stiff spatula or spoon
After adding all the blended
liquid ingredients
if the cookie dough is too stiff you may add a little more apple juice
A thinner dough will make a flatter cookie
A stiff dough will make irregular
thick cookies like the ones shown in the photo
To test for dough stiffness
we stick a soup spoon upright into the dough If the dough is stiff enough
the spoon will remain upright On a non-stick or lightly oiled baking sheet
place the cookie dough in 24 equal sizedmounds
Smooth and shape each cookie with a spoon or spatula
as desired
Place the pecan halves on the top of each cookie and press lightly into the dough
Place the baking sheet in the preheated oven and bake at 350 degrees F
for 20-25 minutes
Various ovens bake differently
so we suggest that you begin checking the cookies after 15-20 minutes of baking
The cookies should be firm
but still soft enough to be a littlespringy
Be careful not to over-bake
When the plantain coconut raisin oatmeal spice cookies are baked
remove from the oven
cool
and enjoy