{"id":415,"date":"2010-01-04T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anjaschwerin.com\/food\/?p=415"},"modified":"2016-03-17T17:59:54","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T17:59:54","slug":"walnut-prune-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anjaschwerin.com\/food\/01\/walnut-prune-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Walnut Prune Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anjaschwerin.com\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/PruneWalnutCookies1.jpg?ssl=1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"300\" width=\"294\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anjaschwerin.com\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/PruneWalnutCookies1.jpg?resize=294%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">Why do healthy cookies always look so ugly? I am in a serious predicament here, as I am aiming to post healthy, wholesome foods and dishes in this blog. At the same time, I&#8217;d like to convince my readers that these foods are tasty. And for that, they should look good in the picture. Not so the common healthy cookie.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">To tell you the truth, the icing on the cookies is in fact unnecessary for taste reasons. I put it on to make them look better. Otherwise they would have been some dark brown with black spots sort of round but still uneven baked something. Unphotographable!!!!!<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">I baked these last night and I especially got an icing pipe for this in the afternoon. What an effort&#8230;.. Anyway, as this is my first icing pipe, I was not very proficient with it yet. It was also quite late when I used it. Not all cookies turned out as pretty as they were supposed to with the icing on. As these cookies were to be my husband&#8217;s breakfast this morning, I told him to eat the ugly ones first, so I can photograph the prettier ones a little later. Here we go: The nine prettiest cookies out of 25.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">As everyone seems to blog about their New Year resolutions, I will do so too: Only recently I discovered the foodgawker website, a gallery of finest food photography shot by food bloggers. I WANT MY PICTURES ON FOODGAWKER. So far, they have rejected two submissions. I will improve my photographic skills, and keep trying. And keep eating healthy foods. That&#8217;s all. <\/div>\n<p><b>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/b><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #eeeeee;\"><b>WALNUT PRUNE COOKIES<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #eeeeee;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #eeeeee;\">3\/4 cup pitted prunes<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #eeeeee;\">3\/4 walnuts, roughly chopped<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #eeeeee;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #eeeeee;\">1 ripe banana, mashed<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #eeeeee;\">1 egg<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #eeeeee;\">1 teaspoon vanilla extract<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #eeeeee;\">1\/8 cup unsweetened apple sauce<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #eeeeee;\">1\/8 cup canola oil<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #eeeeee;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #eeeeee;\">1\/3 cup whole wheat flour<br \/>1\/2 cup oats (quick cooking or regular)<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #eeeeee;\">1\/2 teaspoon cinnamon<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #eeeeee;\">1\/2 teaspoon salt<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #eeeeee;\">1\/8 teaspoon baking soda<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #eeeeee;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #eeeeee;\"><b>ICING (OPTIONAL)<br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #eeeeee;\">100g cream cheese<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #eeeeee;\">2 tablespoons agave syrup<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #eeeeee;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #eeeeee;\">Yields 25 cookies<\/div>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>Preheat oven to 180C degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. You might have to bake these cookies in two batches. <br \/>Combine prunes and walnut in a food processor and pulse until finely chopped. In a bowl, whisk together banana, egg, vanilla, baking soda, applesauce and oil. Stir in chopped prunes and walnuts. Add oats, flour, cinnamon and salt and stir until just combined. <br \/>Drop heaped teaspoons of the dough on the baking sheet. Gently press the dough down with your fingertips or a spoon to give the cookies the shape of a disc. Bake for about 20 minutes. Let cool on wire racks.<br \/>For the icing, combine cream cheese and agave syrup. Using an icing pipe, decorate each cookie with the cream cheese mixture. Let the icing become solid before transferring cookies to an airtight container.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do healthy cookies always look so ugly? I am in a serious predicament here, as I am aiming to post healthy, wholesome foods and dishes in this blog. At the same time,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anjaschwerin.com\/food\/01\/walnut-prune-cookies\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-Anja","post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","category-cookies","category-dairy-free","category-no-added-sugar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8TjFz-6H","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":226,"url":"https:\/\/anjaschwerin.com\/food\/05\/chocolate-walnut-crispy-cookies\/","url_meta":{"origin":415,"position":0},"title":"Chocolate Walnut Crispy Cookies","author":"Anja","date":"May 29, 2011","format":"image","excerpt":"Last weekend, I got final confirmation that I am getting completely detached from the realities of healthy food. 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