1 cup butter, melted
¾ cup honey
2 eggs
1 t. salt
1 t. cinnamon
1 t. baking soda
1 t. vanilla
½ cup buttermilk
2 cups whole wheat flour
2 cups whole rolled oats
1 cup raisins or chocolate chips

Mix butter, honey, eggs, salt, cinnamon, soda, vanilla and buttermilk. Stir in flour and oats. Fold in raisins or chocolate chips. Scoop heaping tablespoons of dough onto a cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes. Allow cookies to cool 3-4 minutes on cookie sheet before removing cookies to cool on a wire rack.

To soak the grain in these cookies before baking (in order to help them to digest better):

Melt and cool butter. In a glass bowl, stir together flour, oats, butter and cultured buttermilk. Add a bit more buttermilk than the 1/2 cup the recipe calls for if the grains are not all moistened. Cover and let the grains soak overnight. Stir in the remaining ingredients in the morning and bake as directed.

Cornbread Muffins

1 cup cornmeal
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
2 Tablespoon honey
¼ cup melted butter
1 cup buttermilk

Stir together dry ingredients. Add eggs, honey, butter and buttermilk. Stir until just mixed. Spoon batter into 12 muffin baking cups. Bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes.

For Cornbread, spread batter into a buttered 9×9 inch baking pan. Bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes.

Don’t like sweet potatoes? Then might I suggest you try these Sweet Potato Streusel Muffins?

Sweet Potato Streusel MuffinsYum

2 cups whole wheat flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1/2 cup honey
1/4 cup raisins (optional)
1 egg
1 cup mashed sweet potato*
1/2 cup milk
3 Tablespoons melted butter

Topping:

3 Tablespoons sucanat (dehydrated cane sugar juice) or brown sugar
1 Tablespoon butter, softened
2 Tablespoons chopped nuts (optional)

Combine flour, baking powder, salt and nutmeg in a bowl. Add honey, raisins, eggs, sweet potato, milk and butter. Stir until just mixed. Scoop into 15 paper lined muffin cups.

In a small bowl, combine topping ingredients. Sprinkle evenly over each muffin. Bake at 400° for 15-20 minutes.

*To make mashed sweet potatoes:
Scrub two medium sweet potatoes. Stab them each with a knife, then place them in a glass baking dish. Cover and bake for 1 hour or until the potato is very tender. Allow potatoes to cool a few minutes, then carefully peel them. Mash the potatoes with a fork or potato masher.

You’ve gotta love a recipe that makes your house smell like everything your house is supposed to smell like in the fall! And, a recipe that helps you get sweet potatoes into your kids. And, a recipe that makes something simple that tastes so good!!