TIE Fighter Nibbles

When looking for a cookie recipe, most folks aren't going to be looking for words like "gluten free," "vegan," or "cholesterol free." Most folks are going to be looking for "delicious," "chewy," and "addictive," because these are the things all good cookies should be.

These are both.

The name comes from the fact that they taste (to me) like Thailand, thanks to the mix of coconut and lemon, and they're bite-size, so they were originally going to be Thai Bites, but then that came out of my mouth as "Thai biters," and that sounded like TIE Fighters, and because there is something wrong with me, I became overly enthusiastic and the name stuck.

(Also TIE fighters are way, way cooler than X-wings forever and always and they shouldn't be because they are bad guy ships so have a contradiction as striking as these stupid cookies.)

OH and don't expect these cookies to last very long. They won't. You're welcome.

TIE Fighter Nibbles

Ingredients

1 cup roasted unsalted sunflower seeds
3 cups sweetened coconut flakes
1 ripe banana
1 lemon's worth of zest (and zest that thing down to its innards, will ya?)
1 lemon's worth of juice (about 4 Tbsp)
2 Tbsp maple syrup



Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350*F.
  2. Combine all ingredients in a food processor until they're kind of sticking together. This will NOT yield a uniform, smooth dough. I thought it would and cursed a lot. You can skip that bit.
  3. Scoop out tablespoon-sized balls of dough and flatten them to about 1/2" thick on a cookie sheet lined with a silpat or parchment paper.
  4. Lick your fingers and the scoop afterwards because this stuff is GOOD raw.
  5. Bake 12-15 minutes, until the tips of coconut sticking out of some of the cookies has browned. These cookies do NOT brown, so you're pretty much just drying out the banana until the cookies'll stick together.
  6. Cool on a wire rack and store in an airtight container away from your partner's line-of-sight.


Note: Originally from this post, but saved here in case the original walks away, and edited to suit my preferences.

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