Happy Saturday everybody! This morning was cloudy and overcast so I decided to do some baking. I originally wanted to try my hand at organic brownies, but I was missing some key ingredients (aka chocolate!) so I decided to improvise on cookies instead. I've had a bottle of Agave Nectar sitting in my pantry for awhile now and it was calling out to me to give it a try. Agave Nectar, in case you aren't familiar with it, is a natural sweetener that is very popular in the organic cooking community. So, anywhoo ... I pulled out the nectar and some other ingredients I had lying around and whipped up these:
Coconut Pumpkin Seed Cookies. If you don't like pumpkin seeds you can use sunflower seeds or flax seeds or any other seed. You can also use dried raisins or cranberries. So, let's get baking! You will need the following: 
Ingredients:
1 cup of butter or margarine
2 cups of flour
1 large egg
1/2 to 1 cup of sweetened coconut flakes
1/2 to 1 cup of pumpkin seeds
2 tsp of nutmeg or cinnamon
1/4 cup of blue agave nectar (or you can use 1/2 cup of sugar)
Directions:
Preheat your oven to 375*F.
Mix all of the ingredients in a bowl and blend well.
Place little drops of the dough on a cookie tray.
Bake for 10 minutes at 375*F.
Remove from oven, let cool for 5 minutes and enjoy!
These cookies are super easy to bake and I think they're really tasty too. Have a wonderful weekend. I'm off to an all-day scrapbook crop at Pick of the Patch Scrapbooking tomorrow. I admit, I'm a little nervous and I hope the ladies are nice! Oh, and thank you for the wind words regarding my mission's trip (see last post). I think there might have been a little misunderstanding, though. I'm not going away for a year ... I'm going on the trip in a year. I'll be going to this country for 2 weeks and if it goes well and I feel comfortable, I can look at going again for a longer period of time. But yeah, I'm not moving to another country! Sorry for the confusion! :)
loves to you all
xox
