This recipe is from a vegan restaurant, named Green Cuisine where they are very popular.

Ingredients:
3 cups rolled oats
1 cup plus 2-tablespoons brown rice flour
3/4 cup date sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup chopped dates
1/3 cup chopped pecans
1 cup non sweetened applesauce
3/4 cup safflower oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions:
Preheat over to 350 degrees. Lightly oil or line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

In a large bowl, combine oats, flour, sugar, dates, the salt, dates and pecans. Mix thoroughly, using your hands to separate dates and mix ingredients. Stir in applesauce, oil and vanilla and mix well.

Spoon or scoop rounded tablespoons onto prepared sheet and flatten slightly into disks about 1/2-inch thick. Bake about ten minutes, until edges begin to brown. Repeat with remaining dough.

Recipe makes about five-dozen small cookies.

Variation: Applesauce Thumbprints Shape as recipe directs, press thumbprints into center, and bake as directed. Spoon a little apple jelly into depression or cooled cookies.

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