I am terrible about eating breakfast. I actually get up and cook breakfast for my husband and kids most days, and don’t actually eat anything myself until mid morning. I just can’t stomach anything other than a cup of tea or four that early. The other night I was doing some experimental baking and came up with a really yummy, not terribly un-nutritious recipe for breakfast cookies:

Winter Fruit Breakfast Cookies

2 Ripe Persimmons, Pulp Only

2 Small Apples, chopped

1 Cup Raisins

1 1/2 Cup Flour

2-2 1/2 Cups Oats

3/4 Cup Sugar

1 Egg

1/2 Stick Butter

1 Tsp Baking Soda

1/2 Tsp Salt

Cinnamon & Cloves to taste

1 Tsp Vanilla

Cream butter, egg, sugar & Vanilla. Stir in fruit. Sift dry ingredients together & add spices. Stir, chill 30 minutes, and drop rounded spoonfuls on a greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes. Since having cookies without frosting seems sac religious, I made a yummy almond flavored icing to go on top, but they are pretty darn good plain too!