No Flour Oatmeal Cookies

Makes 3 dozen

These high fibre cookies whip up in a flash.  They have no flour and if you use certified gluten free oats they are gluten free. A sweet treat with tea or to tuck into a lunch bag.

1 cups butter

1 cup brown sugar

3 large eggs

1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract (optional)

6 cups of gf quick cook Oatmeal

Cream butter and sugar together beating for 2 minutes. Add egg and vanilla, beat for another 1 minute. Add 4 cups oatmeal 1 cup at a time. Beat until blended. Stir in last 2 cups by hand.

Drop cookies by rounded teaspoonful onto a cool cookie sheet. Flatten each cookie with 2 fingers if necessary. This should make 36 cookies.

Bake at 350°F for 12 to 15 minutes, or until just lightly browned.

Allow to cool for several minutes before eating.

Notes: if you can’t find gf quick cook oatmeal, use gf large flake oatmeal and whiz 2 to 4 times on pulse in blender one cup at a time. You only want to reduce the size of the flakes, not make a flour.

You can replace the last 1 cup of oatmeal with equal amount of chocolate chips, raisins or dry cranberries and add 2 teaspoons xanthan gum to butter, sugar, egg mixture.