Peanut Butter Trail Mix Cookies - cooking recipe

Ingredients

5 tablespoons butter or 5 tablespoons margarine
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup chunky peanut butter
1 banana, mashed
1 egg white
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup white flour
2 tablespoons flax seed meal (optional(adds fiber and omega 3s)
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 3/4 cups uncooked old-fashioned oatmeal
1 cup trail mix

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Cream butter and brown sugar until smooth.
Add peanut butter and blend well.
Mix in egg white, banana and vanilla.
Add flours, flax seed meal, baking powder and salt and stir until well mixed.
Add oatmeal and stir until soft dough forms.
If the trail mix has large chunks (like dried pineapple), cut into smaller chunks, then measure to make 1 cup.
Stir trail mix into the batter.
You can either drop the dough by heaping teaspoonsful onto the cookie sheet (sprayed with cooking spray) or shape the batter a litte into flattened balls of dough. I like to shape them a bit.
Place the cookies about 2 inches apart on the cookie sheet.
Bake for 8 - 12 minutes or until set.