Maple Oatmeal Cookies
[Vegan]

Maple Oatmeal Cookies [Vegan]

By mid-January, I think most people have gone one of two ways on their New Year resolutions. There's the group who are still going strong, religiously hurling themselves out for a jog down the road every morning, ringing their parents regularly, or honing their mathematics skills through daily calorie counting.... By mid-January, I think most people have gone one of two ways on their New Year resolutions. There's the group who are still going strong, religiously hurling themselves out for a jog down the road every morning, ringing their parents regularly, or honing their mathematics skills through daily calorie counting. Then there are those to whom their good intentions are already just a distant memory; they've called the whole thing off and are already wistfully remembering the holiday season, when cookies-for-breakfast was not so much acceptable as encouraged. But I think it's about time to compromise. Maybe your resolution this year was to clean up your vegan diet; maybe it was to try going vegan for the first time; maybe it was just to experiment more with new lifestyles and conscientiousness. This is all what I believe scientists call 'super awesome', so naturally I'm on board. But I'm also anti-perfection, and pro-happiness. Example: did you know that you can have a cookie and not find yourself in forty years time weighing three hundred pounds, married to a man named Hank in a string vest, and eating nothing but treacle? Did you know that cookies don't have to be either dipped in melted butter and rolled in cinnamon sugar and covered in sprinkles, the colour of which aren't to be found in nature, or else comprised solely of agave nectar and applesauce and sadness? These cookies are made with maple syrup, and oats, and absolutely nothing that you can't pronounce. Yep, there's fat in there. There's even white flour in there, though I bet you could sub in wholewheat and this cookie wouldn't suffer for it. But they're animal friendly, world friendly, and person friendly. They're earnest, and wholesome, and wonderfully comforting with hot tea. And if they keep you on your resolution path another day, or if they just make you smile to yourself, then that is, as a scientist might say, super awesome. Read More