OATMEAL CREAM PIES
When I was a kid I liked Little Debbie Oatmeal Cream Pies. I felt special sharing the same name! Little did I know back then what unhealthy ingredients those delicious cream pies contained. No worries with this healthy version!
You can find the recipe at “Making Thyme For Health”: Oatmeal Cream Pies.
Here is the ingredient list for Little Debbie Oatmeal Cream Pies. Be concerned when a list is this long, contains multiple sweeteners, artificial food dyes, artificial flavors, saturated fats, and has chemical names that you don't recognize. Fooducate.com
"corn syrup, enriched bleached flour (wheat flour, barley malt, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate [vitamin b1], riboflavin [vitamin b2], folic acid), palm and soybean oils with tbhq and citric acid to protect flavor, sugar, whole grain rolled oats, water, dextrose, molasses, raisin paste. contains 2% or less of each of the following: soy flour, leavening (baking soda, ammonium bicarbonate, sodium aluminum phosphate), whey, salt, soy lecithin, corn starch, caramel color, mono- and diglycerides, sorbitan monostearate, polysorbate 60, eggs, palm and palm kernel oil, egg whites, yellow 5, red 40, blue 1, titanium dioxide, turmeric, annatto extract, beta carotene, cocoa processed with alkali, high fructose corn syrup, rice flour, nonfat dry milk, modified corn starch, datem, modified tapioca starch, carrageenan, sorbic acid (to preserve freshness), spices, natural and artificial flavors, citric acid, malic acid, propylene glycol monostearate, sodium stearoyl lactylate, polysorbate 80, pectin, sodium citrate, modified wheat starch, chocolate, cocoa butter."
What I did differently for the oatmeal cookies:
-Used quick oats
-Instead of coconut oil used 1/2 cup mashed avocado
-Instead of coconut sugar used 1/3 cup maple syrup
-Increased almond milk to a total of 4 TBSP
-Used blanched almond flour
-Reduced salt to just a pinch
What I did differently for the cream filling:
-Reduced apple cider vinegar to 2 tsp
-Add 1 pitted Medjool date, soaked in hot water for 20 minutes then drained
-Increased vanilla by 1/4th tsp
What I did differently for the instructions:
-Lined 2 baking sheets with parchment paper
-Put dry ingredients into a bowl
-In high speed blender added the avocado, maple syrup, vanilla, almond milk, and molasses
-Added the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stirred well
-Used 2 TBSP of dough, dropped onto the cookie sheet and used my finger to shape into a flat circle. They did not spread further when baking. Mine were about 3 inches across.
-Baked 12 minutes then placed on cooling rack
-I made 6 pies. I had lots of extra cream filling so next time will make 1/2 batch of the filling
