Yum! I brought these to a party, and everyone raved about them. They have a delightful light, fluffy, soft & chewy texture. The spices work really well. Next time I would use more ground walnuts - I used double what the recipe called for, but couldn't taste it at all. I ground the walnuts in our coffee grinder - so easy! I used dried cranberries because I didn't have any dates around. The batter looks like cake batter. I refrigerated the batter for about 24 hours due to time constraints, and the extra fridge time did them no harm. I also found 400F to be too hot: 8-10 minutes at 375 is plenty for these cookies.

Reviewed On: Sep. 7, 2007

Yummy. I took others' suggestions and cut the sugar to less than half a cup, and the cookies were still quite sweet - 1/4 cup of sugar would have been plenty. I used the zest of 1 whole orange, and the orange flavor really took over the cookie - you could barely taste the honey. So, next time I would not go quite so crazy with the orange zest. Overall, very tasty and easy. I brought some to work and they were gone in 60 seconds. Even our neighbor's picky 2.5-year-old loved them.

Reviewed On: Sep. 7, 2007

I made this recipe using grape nuts cereal instead of granola because that's what I had around the house. The resulting crunch was excellent, but the grape nuts tend to get stuck in your teeth! So I would use granola next time. I followed others' advice on how to mix the ingredients and it worked great. I added a quarter cup of wheat germ, decreased the sugar by 1/2 cup, and used 1 cup of whole wheat flour + 2 cups of white flour. The result was a very healthy tasting and delicious muffin. Serve hot with a bit of natural peanut butter spread across, mmmm mmm good.

Reviewed On: Jun. 20, 2006