Coconut Oat Pecan Cookies
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Y’all, I have come to the realization that from the get-go, this whole parenting thing has been about letting go. When my daughter was an infant, I carried her around everywhere – only to let her go when she started to crawl… and then to walk… and then to drive! And now she’s talking about me letting her go off to college! Quick, someone hit the slow-mo button on that remote that Adam Sandler wielded in Click! Or, better yet – just hit the pause button!
But, since she was a toddler, that is what I have been grooming her for – being independent, seeking advice, making decisions and doing “adulting” by herself and for herself. I just didn’t realize that that time spent grooming would fly by so quickly. While I struggle to deal with the whole letting go part of parenting, after 12 years I think I’ve got a grip on the whole back-to-school part of it – especially when it comes to food.
No – I don’t meal prep for hours on the weekends nor do I wake up early to do so. Instead, I get my daughter to pack her own lunch and snacks. It all started about 3 years ago when she told me she needed me to pack more chocolate to fuel her brain and something clicked in mine, and I thought, I need to let go of packing her lunches (saw what I did there?) So, she took over and has been doing it diligently since.
But this year, I’ve started feeling guilty, feeling that maybe I’ve expected too much from her (even though she has delivered more than I expected). So, to deal with my guilt, some days, I make her her favorite Coconut Oat Pecan Cookies loaded up with M&M’s® Milk Chocolate, M&M’s® Peanut, and M&M’s® Peanut Butter pieces and sneak them into her backpack.
When I was at Walmart trying to pick between the party bags of M&M’s® or the Mixed Mini Variety Bag to make these Coconut Oat PecanCookies with, I happened on the Back To School, Ghostbusters themed M&M’s® display and took a trip down memory lane to when I watched the Original Ghostbusters. Realizing that the new Ghostbusters is in theaters now, I figured it would be a much-needed break to spend an afternoon at the movie theater with my daughter, armed with bags of M&M’s® and a Mixed Mini Variety Bag and these Coconut Oat Pecan Cookies – now to find that remote from Click and freeze this moment!
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Ingredients
- 1/4 cup peanut butter
- 3 tablespoons coconut oil
- 2 eggs at room temperature
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 1/2 cup rice flour
- 1/4 cup flax meal
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/4 cup coconut flakes unsweetened
- 1/4 cup pecans
- 1/4 cup M&M’s® Peanut
- 1/4 cup M&M’s® Milk Chocolate
- 1/4 cup M&M’s® peanut butter
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350
- Add the peanut butter and coconut oil into a bowl and heat in the microwave for 10 - 15 seconds - just enough for the peanut butter to get runny but don't let the mixture get too warm
- Add the brown sugar and eggs and stir well with a spoon
- Then add in the oats, rice flour, flax meal, baking powder, salt, vanilla, pecans, and coconut flakes and stir
- Toss in the M&M’s® Milk Chocolate, M&M’s® Peanut, and M&M’s® peanut butter
- Drop ice cream scoopfuls or spoonfuls of cookie dough onto a parchment lined baking tray
- Bake at 350 for 12-14 minutes
- Let cool and enjoy
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These look amazing Shashi. And just right on time here too for it’s breakfast in Scotland. Although I’m at work now, so no chance to make these at the moment. But pinning for later. Thanks! 😀
Is your daughter as good a cook and recipe developer as you too? 🙂
Neil, am not sure if I’ll say she likes to cook – she only cooks those foods I don’t make often – like pasta based dishes – her favorite is an avocado pesto pasta – am hoping she can use recipes from here when she is in college and after.
BTW – thanks so much Neil! I hope you and Lady Lynne have a wonderful, sunshine filled, weekend, my friend!
Lil Shashi is one lucky girl! I mean Mom feels guilty so she whips up a batch of these cookies…yum!! I’m pretty sure she’s gonna want you to start packing her lunches again…just as long as these cookies are involved! I love the pecans in there for crunch. In fact, this sounds pretty darned similar to the granola that we eat in the morning…just with M&Ms. And Ghostbusters = awesome. End of story. 🙂
Haha! I gotta find a better way to deal with my guilt eh?! Oh wait – I left out the part where she actually didn’t get to eat all these – I shared them (using MY math skills and not hers)!
Oooh – all I heard was granola WITH M&Ms – yes pahleez! BTW – Thanks so much David!
What a great combo of add-ins! I love pecans and ALWAYS forget about using them in things 😛
Pecans so rock! Thanks so much Rebecca!
M & Ms for breakfast! a-ok. Back to school breakfast treat.
Miss you my friend!
Haha – chocolate for breakfast, lunch and dinner eh?!
Miss ya too, my friend – summer has been a bit craycray on y end – hoping things settle down soon! xx
Great recipe Shashi, especially for kids. Loved the addition of pecan in it. Pinned
Thanks so much Puja! Hope you have a wonderful weekend!
Yummy! Another great recipe!! 🙂
Thanks so much for stopping by and commenting today, Arthur.
Oh Shashi, if I could hit that pause button for you, I would. I can’t imagine how it must feel to let your little one go off to college. You still have time though!! 🙂 I commend you for grooming such a good kid (aw, do we have to call her an adult now???) It’s awesome that she packs her own lunches and snacks. She’ll be super prepared for college now! Still, it’s very sweet of you to make her these cookies as a special treat. 🙂 Can you send some over? Let me go click that pause button for you now. 😉 Have a wonderful weekend, my friend! xoxo
Call her an adult – no way! I look at her and still see 8 – just like the dad in this – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgWawUudLJ4
Thanks so much for hitting that pause button – maybe this way I can put a pause on finishing these off and send some to you – via dove of course – speaking of which – yours hasn’t made it here with MY granola cookies yet! 🙂
Demeter thanks so much for your always kind and thoughtful comments – ok – hitting stop on corny now!
Have a wonderful weekend! XOXO
These breakfast cookies look perfect Shashi! Could you send some my way? Pinning!
Definitely Mira! 🙂
Thank you so very much – hope you are doing well.
OH! These look delicious, I could definitely start my day with these cookies!
Me too Marye – I started and ended my day with these 😉
Thanks so much for stopping by today.
mmm..all those M&Ms…I am very sure these cookies taste fantastic!
Thanks so much Angie!
I like how you deal with guilt, girlfriend. MORE CHOCOLATE. I need to pay as much attention to your parenting techniques as your stellar cooking!!! I’d learn something. My kiddies do pack their lunches too, and this year, as in next WEEK – we drop Jonathan off at college. And the day we arrive home from Birmingham, we welcome an exchange student from China for the year. WHOA!!! Things they are a-changing – and I am going to make some of these cookies ahead – great breakfast but also after school snacks. I know the days will be extra busy and these cookies look like the perfect delicious snacking solution. Thanks for all the inspiration Shashi, and looking forward to the weekend! Wahoo!!! XO
Hahaha! Allie, I think I deal with ALL emotions with CHOCOLATE – it is the great leveler – at least IMO! 🙂
Oh my – I will be thinking of you next week! Hoping Jonathan loves college and his Mom is not too soupy heading home and your exchange student doesn’t have too much of a culture shock!
Yum! These would be a hit in my house. #client
Thanks so much for your kind words (and patience on links) today, Kelly!
I’m loving that this healthy cookies are loaded with M&M’s (btw I’m totally a M&M’s Peanut kinda guy. My absolute fave!) and pecans.
I’ll just wait for this unbearable heat to subside a little and then I’m gonna give it a go.
Great recipe my friend!
Duuude – my commiserations! Fall will be here before you know it and it’ll be time to get baking and twirling -or did you say twerking?! Kidding! Thanks so much my NYC friend!
Awwww! You and your daughter are just the cutest duo on earth, Shashi!! I love when you write about her! Hearing about yawls adventures or just reading the sweet words you write about her make my heart melt a little! You wanna adopt me?! 😉 hahahaha! I can imagine how hard it will be to let her go off to college, but it will be the best time of her life (aside from her time with you of course!) and I’m confident she is more than prepared thanks to all your excellent grooming! Anyways, it’s so sweet you sneak some of these cookies into her bag!! I’m sure THAT makes her day! These look absolutely delish! Coconut, oats, pecans AND M&Ms? Hot damn! That’s one heck of a cookie!! I’ll need 5 dozen. At least! 🙂 XOXO Cheers, dear friend!
Hahaha – sure I’ll adopt you – so long as I can be your chief taster (boy can get leftovers) deal? 🙂
You are indeed right – college is gonna be an awesome experience, I just get a bit soupy these days thinking about it – am hoping I’ll be less soupy when the time comes – at least I hope.
Thank you so very much for your kind words, sweet friend! Heading over with 5 dozen of these right now! XOXO
I’ve had a rough day and need the entire batch of these cookies! Love the colors
Oh no – so sorry to hear that – I hope tomorrow is better and BTW – Thanks so much Ashley!
Now this is what I call a sweet surprise for your daughter to find in her backpack! You’re a great mom!
You are too kind, thanks so much sweet friend! Hoping recovery is going well for you. xo
Dear Shashi, these look great! Cookies for breakfast? This is something I could get behind. I love the sound of these…perfect in the morning, afternoon and night! xo, Catherine
I so wish I could get M&M’s in a sugar free version. Raising an independent child is an amazing thing to do 🙂
You sound like a very thoughtful parent which must be so nice for her 🙂 And these cookies look amazingly tempting. I love M&M, especially peanut ones 😀
These cookies look great for breakfast or for any time of day. I’d sneak a couple in my lunch box 😉
Whoa. I love M&MS, but I think vegas loves them even more. I’m not showing her this or I’ll have to spend the morning baking. HAHA!
Yum – these look great! And cookies for breakfast?! Yes please!
Can regular flour be substituted for rice flour?
These look amazing and like something my children would eat in the morning! Can another type of flour be used? I have coconut and almond and of course regular flour already. So excited to try!
Hi Angie, yes, I’m thinking you could use regular, all-purpose flour to replace the rice flour and flax meal – or regular flour to replace the rice flour and almond meal to replace the flax – though I wouldn’t use coconut flour only as coconut flour seems to absorb more liquid than regular flour – so consistency might be off, I haven’t tried these cookies with it so couldn’t give you any idea of how much coconut flour: liquid ratio – so sorry. Thanks so much for visiting.
Yes can regular flour be used and are they as healthy, or is there another substitution? And I am wondering if flax meal is necessary? I don’t have any rice flour or flax meal. Thanks in advance.
Hi Lydia, I’m thinking you could use regular, all purpose flour instead of the rice flour and flax (I use flax for the nutritional boost and the texture), though the nutrition content would drop significantly – maybe if you used all purpose whole wheat flour it would be a bit better nutritionally?
Thanks so much for visiting my little space – I hope your cookies turn out wonderfully