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Breakfast Cookies*

Cookies for breakfast? Kids love 'me - especially when they help with the baking! Let kids "grease" the cookie sheets, measure the ingredients and drop the cookie dough on the baking pan. Together, watch the clock so cookies come out golden brown.

Ingredients:
vegetable oil spray
1/2 cup (1 stick margarine)
1/3 cup honey
1 egg
1/3 cup whole-bran cereal
1/4 cup orange juice
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla

1 cup flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1/3 cup nonfat dry milk
1 cup rolled oats
1 cup raisins

Directions:
Heat oven to 350 degrees. spray one or tow cookie sheets with vegetable oil spray. Cream together margarine and honey in a large bowl. Beat in egg. Add bran cereal, juice and vanilla, and mix well. Add flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, dry milk and oats. Mix well. Stir in raisins. Drop by tablespoonful, 2 inches apart, onto cookie sheets. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes until golden brown.

Makes 3 dozen.



To store: These may be refrigerated in an airtight container for up to 1 week or frozen for up to 2 months.


Nutritional Information Per Cookie:
Calories 75, Total fat 3 g, Saturated fat 1.7 g, Cholesterol 6 mg,  Sodium 79 mg., Protein 1 g, Carbohydrate 11 g, Fiber less than 1 g.

* (Adapted by Healthy Start from Healthy Treats and Super Snacks for Kids, Penny Warner. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1994

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