Hello everybody, Hope you are all doing, well, me ? quite tired, I had friends around weekend so that's it, It was cooking, cleaning and site seeing. Weather hasn't changed much it's still raining, With wind blowing at 70 - 80 mph, my Tomato Baskets, fell down, got really scared thought all the hanging baskets might fall down and decided it is better to bring them all down until the wind subsides, Wind is gone and sun is gone as well, very depressing, have to wear jackets and shoes again, it's become a bit chilly at this end of the city :(, Weeds have come up again, need to pluck them out ( hate this job ), I had actually planned to sprinkle some Veedol when the weather was dry, after I had completed my gardening, but all my plans took a different turn when the rain started reigning over us and our sunny days have disappeared, All my seeds have become little seedlings which need more of a firm place and more soil to grow well and nice. It's such a pity they are still in my conservatory !!, scared to put them out because of the torrential rains, which has turned down to drizzling rain now, hopefully it will stop and I can see the sunshine again, which the British people and the dear plants need at this time of the year :).
Coming back to this recipe, it is SRC time again, The Secret Recipe club of Amanda who is founder of this club has transferred her reins to April Tuell who is our new Head now, whom we all welcome with love and affection and would love to tell her its great to be with you, but do miss Amanda., Best of luck to both of them with their new ventures. My host Suzanne had assigned me to this blog Restored of Robin, don't be alarmed by the name, her blog is called Penny Pinching Provisions but she has renamed her blog title to Restored, so why is that ?, As she herself says she decided to Restore her health, simplicity and happiness, She says her blog focuses on good and healthy food, simple living and financially living frugally. So, I don't have to tell you more about it, as now you know what her blog stands for with some amazing recipes I have book marked a few and want to try them out, I tried already two of them and they turned out very well, I chose this for my SRC post as it is her own recipe and she has given a new name to it..!!!
When I was going through the bakes ( as I love baking ), this one caught me, I first thought this must be from some place, funnily it is her own make up recipe and name :)), So, I just decided on this, Bascially these cookies are called Scotchilla because it is made of Butterscotch and Vanilla chips, as I had the Butterscotch chips and oats the cookie was fine to bake but the only problem was Vanilla chips, which I have never heard off and now I have to hunt down for it, so I had to omit that and made with whatever I had in hand and a little changes, do check out her blog for the Original Recipe clicking on the link below. If you want to try it out. Go ahead and enjoy these cookies as my kids did....
SCOTCHILLA COOKIES
Recipe Source: Adapted with minimal Changes from Penny Pinching Provisions
Makes : 50 (of 20 grms each)
INGREDIENTS:
3 Cups ( 385 grms ) Old Fashioned Oats
1 ¼ Cup (185 grms ) Whole meal plain flour
½ Cup (115 grms ) Butter
1 Cup (165 grms) Fairtrade cane Sugar
1/2 tsp Baking soda
1/2 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Baking Powder
½ salt
1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
1 Tbsp Vanilla Sugar
½ tsp Cinnamon powder
2 Tbsp Flax seed
1/4 Cup Milk Powder
1/2 Cup warm Milk
6 Tbsp hot water
¼ Cup ( 57 grms ) Butter Scotch Chips
¼ Cup (57 grms) chopped Dates
METHOD:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F / Gas Mark 4 / 175 degree Celsius
Sieve both the flours together then add all the dry Ingredients Baking Soda, Vanilla Sugar and Cinnamon Powder to this flour mixture and combine them well together,
Soak Flax seed in Hot water.
In a Large bowl take Melted butter and Brown sugar, cream them well together, to this add Vanilla Extract, Milk Powder dissolved in Hot milk and soaked Flax seed to this and beat them all well together.
To this creamed mixture add the dry Ingredients and gently incorporate the whole flour.
Stir in both the chiips and dates into this cookie batter
Drop these Cookie batter on to the cookie sheets in dollops or make a nice round ball, Press them and bake them for 10 to 12 minutes
Cool on a wiring rack and Lo! Enjoy these cookies...
Notes:
Because of the changes I made, I had reduced the quantity of sugar, so they are not too sweet, Perfect for me, as I love oats :), I made these Eggless, if you want to use Eggs, she uses 1 Egg, she does not use milk powder or milk, I just used all those just thinking of my kids when they are going to indulge in it!, this way they will be consuming some milk too!!, Next time I am planning to reduce the sugar and butter quantitiy.
The cookies were soft but firm, they came out from the Butter paper without any problems they were very enjoyable to bake and eat!! , First time I really sat and ate 3 of them.., I thought they were quite addictive.
Check out all the bloggers who are in club and Enjoy a galore of recipes here....
I would like to send this to Jagruthi's cooking odyssey event Know your Flours - Whole wheat flour
Jagruti
cookies looks delectable..thanks for linking it to my event !
Jagruti's Cooking Odyssey
Know Your Flours-Whole Wheat Flour
Daniel Saraga
very detailed. The cookies look amazing.
Akila
Very yummy..... First time here n these were awesome....... When u get time do visit my place....
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Denise
These look good - and healthy! Great cookies.
Spice up the Curry
interesting recipe. love the healthy cookies here,
Danielle
Yum - butterscotch and dates - this sounds great!
faseela
yummy n healthy cookies....
Priya
Cookies looks awesome and quite addictive,lovely bake.
Betsy
I think this combination sounds awesome! Hope you stay warm and dry!
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Judee @ Gluten Free A-Z
wow. what healthy ingredients. I especially love the addition of dates for both sweetness and nutrition.
Trisha
The cookies look really good Jayasri! I love the flavors used!
Reshmi Mahesh
Delicious looking cookies..Never tried using flax seeds..May be should give one try...
Angie {Successful2gether}
Yummy! cookies 😀 great choice!!
Heather
I like your healthier Cookie here. I wonder if I could substitute chia seeds for the flax? I just bought a bag and am in need of recipes and I think this could be a good one to try it with!
Jayasri Ravi
Hi Heather, I did read somewhere in some book or some place I can't remember where that you can substitute chia seeds instead of flax seed as it also has Omega 3 in them, I bought some from my health food store, to try out something with it, I could try it out and tell you or if you did you can tell me :)), thanks you liked it.
Nupur
Love the idea of using Flax meal,, I recently baked a cookie with some Flax meal, but yours is a good amount ..
Its a recipe worth bookmarking.. Love the colors..
Jayasri Ravi
Thanks Nupur, try to adopt to healthy eating habits, I was not too happy as I did use lot of butter in this, then I thought once in while it is ok! growing kids need that fat content, as I don't use too much oil in my Indian style everyday cooking 🙂
Lisa~~
Very healthy and delicious sounding cookies. Hope that you (and I) see the sun soon.
If you haven't already, I'd love for you to check out my group "A" SRC entry: Candied Popcorn.
Lisa~~
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Jayasri Ravi
Thanks lisa, definitely will check out, love popcorn my favourite, and fingers crossed hope we both see the sun soon..
Robin
I'm so glad you liked the recipe and were able to adapt it to meet your family's preferences! The vanilla chips are a rare find here too. Sometimes, I use white chocolate chips as they seem to have about the same flavor in cookies.
Jayasri Ravi
Thanks Robin for this lovely cookies, I usually don't eat whatever I bake, but this one I ate 3 of them the minute it came out of the oven, they were perfect, not too sweet but yummy
Allison
I made your eggless wheatbran muffins. They were a huge hit. We are already on our second batch. I have bookmarked several more eggless recipes on your site to try. Thx!
Jayasri Ravi
Thank you Allison, I too love those Bran muffins