Eat Healthy Cookies for Breakfast
Dorie Greenspan, author of Dorie's Cookies, is all for taking breakfast biscotti to morning meetings, packing them in lunch boxes, stowing them in picnic baskets, or making them a coffee break staple. Eating cookies for breakfast is easy and healthy when granola, oats, dried fruit, and nutritious almonds are involved. They have a grainy, wholesome flavor and an irresistible crunch. Greenspan likes them with chopped almonds and dried cranberries, but almost any nut or dried fruit will work, as long as the pieces are not too large (chop them down to size if they are). Think pistachios and cherries, or walnuts and raisins, for instance. Since this breakfast biscotti recipe gets most of its flavor from the granola, find a cereal that you like enough to eat out of hand. You can be flexible with it, too—the only caveat is to avoid hard, shriveled fruit. If you find granola without fruit, use it. If not, check the fruit, and if it’s not moist (and most of the time it’s not), pick out and discard the worst offenders, knowing that they won’t get any softer, moister, or tastier once baked.Breakfast Biscotti
