Given that lots of people in my family have diabetes, my mother has taken to making her own sugar-free cookies or cookies with minimum sugar. Today’s recipe is her recipe for chocolate chip and cashew nut cookies.

Chocolate chip and cashew nut cookies

Time taken: 35 – 40 mins

Makes 12

Ingredients:

• Oats – ½ cup
• Wheat flour – 1 cup
• Margarine – ½ cup
• Milk – ½ cup (dairy or coconut milk)
• Cashew nuts – ¼ cup, roasted and chopped
• Chocolate chips – ¼ cup
• Brown sugar – ¼ cup
• Baking powder – ½ tsp
• Baking soda – 1 tsp

Method:

1. Whisk the brown sugar and margarine till it is creamy and smooth.
2. Add the oats to the creamed sugar and margarine and mix.
3. Sift the wheat flour together with the baking powder and soda and add to the cookie mix.
4. Add the milk gradually, kneading the cookie mix into a slightly batter-like dough, not too firm and easy to mold into little balls.
5. Fold in the chocolate chips and chopped cashew nuts.
6. Divide the dough into little balls and leave them on the baking tray, for about 5 – 10 mins, before putting them in the oven.
7. Bake the cookies for about 15 – 20 mins at 220⁰C/ 428⁰F.
8. Remove the baking tray from oven when the cookies are golden brown and let them cool before serving.

Recipe source: Raji Thillainathan.