Chewy, Minty Carob Carob Chip Cookies

Dry Ingredients:
1 c. whole wheat flour
1 c. all purpose flour
½ c. carob powder
1 tsp. Baking soda
½ tsp. Salt
1 c. carob chips

Wet Ingredients
½ cup oil
1/4 c. applesauce
1 c. sucanat or turbinado sugar (OK – this really isn’t wet - but this is where you put it!)
1 tsp. Vanilla
1 tsp. Mint flavor

1 T. Plus 1 tsp. flax seeds
½ c. soymilk
5 dates (softened)
Stir dry ingredients together. Stir the 5 wet ingredients together. Whiz flax seeds in the blender. Add soymilk and blend until smooth. Then add dates and blend well. Add this mixture to the wet ingredients. Fold in the dry mixture, a little at a time. Should be a nice stiff dough.
Roll into balls. Place on ungreased cookie sheet & flatten a bit. Bake at 350 for 10 min. ONLY. They don’t look done at this point - but they are. Don’t overbake.
Variation:
Omit mint flavor. Use 2 tsp. Vanilla and 2 T. Roma (etc.) Then add 1 cup peanut butter chips instead of carob chips.