Casserole Cookies (Healthy or Holiday Indulgent!)
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This easy, snackable recipe is adapted from a recipe shared by Joyce on Allrecipes.com.
Author: Alisa Fleming
Serves: 32 cookies
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup coconut sugar or cane sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon almond extract
- 1 cup finely chopped pitted dates (see note below)
- 1 cup shredded coconut (see note below)
- 1 cup finely chopped walnuts
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350ºF and grease a 9x9-inch casserole dish.
- In a medium bowl, beat the eggs with an electric mixer. Beat in the sugar and extracts. Stir in the dates, coconut, and walnuts. Spoon the mixture into your prepared casserole dish.
- Bake for 15 minutes. Stir and bake for 15 more minutes.
- Immediately stir well with a wooden or silicone spoon to break it up and combine.
- Let cool for just 5 minutes. While still warm, form the mixture into 1-inch balls.
Optional Garnish
- You can roll the balls in more shredded coconut (sweetened for stickier), sugar, powdered sugar, or ground nuts. I recommend doing this while the cookies are still warm, but powdered sugar still clings nicely, even after they've cooled.
Notes
Date Note: I use Medjool Dates because they are easy and affordable at Trader Joe's and work well in recipes. You can swap in another type of dates, but do not use pre-chopped dates, they're too dry.
Coconut Note: For a healthier, snack-worthy version, I use unsweetened shredded coconut. But for a straight-up dessert and stickier, more cohesive dough, you can use sweetened shredded coconut. Using regular sugar rather than coconut sugar will also yield a slightly sweeter, moister cookie.
Coconut Note: For a healthier, snack-worthy version, I use unsweetened shredded coconut. But for a straight-up dessert and stickier, more cohesive dough, you can use sweetened shredded coconut. Using regular sugar rather than coconut sugar will also yield a slightly sweeter, moister cookie.
Recipe by Go Dairy Free at https://www.godairyfree.org/recipes/casserole-cookies