My Latest Fun Snack: Coffee Crumbles

I ended up with a little container of date cookies from one of my friends while at the China Date Ranch on Monday. They weren't soft cookies but we all figured they would be great for dunking. I do have new dentures as of last year, but even at that, I won't risk biting down into something hard.

I am also a bit lazy at times - dunking into coffee has always presented two possible issues for me. One is that I sometimes hold a cookie in the warm coffee too long and end up with cookie mush at the bottom of my coffee mug. Because I sip my insulated mug over several hours, that is messy and I don't want the mushy mess by the time I finish the coffee. The other issue is that I sometimes don't let it soak enough and have to dunk again, and maybe again.

I tried something different this week. I took a small 1/2 cup container wide enough for the cookie to fit inside it. I dribbled 4 tablespoons warm/hot coffee onto it, or at least enough to get to the top of the cookie. And I went off to other things.

When I came back a few minutes later, I took a wee little plastic spoon and scooped up several spoons of really delicious Coffee Crumble - loved it so much I decided to name it. I really love this. So easy. I don't have to sit there and dunk and dunk and dunk. I will be doing this with any and all not-soft cookies from here on in...

These cookies are especially good this way. They are oat based with very little flour, they have bits of walnut in them, and of course, bits of chopped dates. Yummy, for sure.