crispy chocolate-granola-coconut cookie

i’ve been experimenting with coconut oil in baking. while i don’t let that grease pass my lips, my partner gobbles it up! he loves to eat it. so i bake with it. despite the fact that i forgot about these while they were in the oven, these cookies came out really well… crisp and toasty but plenty of moisture was locked inside.

here is a photo of the dry mix so you can get an idea of what all goes into my usual inventiveness:

sauerkraut cookies

here in the Nest we make a lot of homemade kraut. ingredients usually list something like…

6 heads of green cabbage

4 carrots

3 onions

12 fresh chilies

1/2 head garlic

bunch of celery

spices

salt

ferment in large ceramic crock for at least 2 weeks… the longer you wait, the better it gets! it is SO sour, so crunchy, so much delicious, nutritious, lacto-bacterica packed, and SPICY kraut. it is awesome. we carry a jar of kraut with us wherever we go and people always wanna know… “what can I trade you for some of that kraut?! it is awesome!” we of course just give them the gift of knowledge and encourage them to make their own fermented vegetable spread. delicious.

i took our favorite lunchtime combo of sauerkraut + peanut/almond butter on toast to a new dimension.

peanut/almond butter + sugar + dried fruit + chocolate chips + granola + spices + an egg = a delicious cookie

peanut/almond butter + sugar + dried fruit + chocolate chips + granola + spices + an egg + a heaping spoonful of homemade kraut = a complex and mouth watering treat.

see that red chile pepper poking out? delicious! moist! spicy! sweet!