oatmeal cookies with dates, cranberries and walnuts

1 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup organic spelt flour
1 tsp aluminum-free baking powder
1/4 cup wheat germ
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp sea salt
1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
1/4 cup solid non-hydrogenated (earth balance or spectrum brand) vegetable shortening, room temperature
1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
3/4 cup organic natural brown sugar
1/4 cup organic grade b maple syrup
2 large organic eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
3 cups organic multi-grain oats
1/4 cup raisins naturally dried
1/4 cup dried blueberries no preservatives
1 cup chopped pitted dates
1 cup chopped walnuts

Preheat oven to 350°F.
combine flours thu sea salt in a medium bowl.

beat butter, vegetable shortening, unsweetened applesauce and brown sugar in mixer until fluffy.
beat in maple syrup, eggs, and vanilla.
slowly and on low add flour mixture until combined.
add in oats, raisins, dried blueberries,dates, and walnuts.
drop by heaping tbls onto baking sheet and bake about 10 minutes. cool

maple and fig muffins

apparently i love to make muffins. i didn't realize this until starting this blog. littlefoodie jr. is always happy that i am once again baking ANOTHER variety of muffins.
these are delicious and he couldn't get enough but it seems like i say that with everything. littlefoodie loves food...maybe its luck. maybe i change it up so often that he is used to variety and different textures and flavors or perhaps he is just like his mom and dad and will eat just about anything in front of them...really!
so i give you yet another muffin and another recipe that is so interchangable...i think thats why i love to make muffins so much, the possibilities seem endless. i adapted this from a muffin recipe that i had written down a while ago from allrecipes.com.

enjoy!

1 1/4 cup whole wheat flour
3 tbl organic natural brown sugar
2 tsp aluminum-free baking powder
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 cup spectrum brand shortening (no transfats/crappy gross ingredients)
1/3 cup oats
handful of flaxseed meal
1 egg
3/4 cup almond milk (we use unsweetened)
1/2 cup organic grade b maple syrup
1/2 cup chopped dried figs

preheat oven to 400F. grease muffin tin.
sift flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon and salt together.
cut in shortening.
add oats.
combine egg, almond milk and maple syrup. add to dry and stir until just moistened. stir in figs.
pour into muffin tins and bake 18 minutes.