As long as I was making nut-based cookies the other day, I figured why not make snacks for Robert, our blue and gold macaw.
Parrot Cookies (Snacks) Makes 36-ish.
- 2 cups almond flour
- 1/2 cup corn meal
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 4 eggs, shells reserved and pulverized
- 1/2 cup coconut oil, melted
- 1/2 cup macadamia nuts, chopped
- 1/2 cup walnuts, chopped
- 1/2 cup shredded carrots
- 1/2 cup dried cranberries
- 2/3 cup chopped kale
- Preheat oven to 350°. Grease or line a cookie sheet.
- In a medium-large bowl, combine flour, meal, baking soda. and egg shells.
- In another bowl, whisk together eggs and coconut oil.
- Make a well in the dry ingredients and slowly add wet ingredients.
- Fold in nuts and vegetables.
- Using cookie scooper or large spoon, drop onto lined/greased cookie sheet, pushing down to spread, and leaving an inch between them.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes. Let stand ten minutes on pan, then transfer to cooling rack. Repeat as needed.
- Cool completely. Freeze half for later and store the rest in the refrigerator.
Man, o man, does Robert love these cookies. I break them in half and give them to him as a treat and he squawks and screams and shows off attacking his toys before coming over to the perch where I always feed him treats.
