Core Diet

Ingredients:

• ½ cup unsalted butter
• 1 & 1/2 cups peanut butter
• 1 cup xylitol
• 2 tsp. vanilla
• 3 eggs
• 3 & 1/2 cups large rolled oats **
• 1 cup ground flax seed (meal)
• 1 Tbls. cinnamon
• 2 tsp. baking soda
• 1 tsp. salt
•  1 & ½ cups of the following options: coconut flakes, chopped nuts, dried fruit such a blueberries etc.  (or 1 & ½ cups of a combination of the above).

 Instructions: 

1. Preheat oven to 350 F. and line baking sheets with silicon sheets or parchment paper.
2. Cream butter, peanut butter, xylitol and vanilla together, then whisk in the eggs and blend well.
3. In a separate bowl, combine the oats, flax, cinnamon, baking soda and salt. Blend.
4. Add the oat mixture to the wet mixture and blend. Add the 1 & ½ cups of optional ingredients and blend again.
5. Spoon 1 Tbls. of the mixture onto the cookie sheets and lightly flatten cookies.
6. Bake for approximately 20 minutes. Cool on rack.

** You can switch out one cup to the oat flour with hemp hearts to improve the nutritional value.