These delicious cookies contain no white flour, only oatmeal and whole wheat. They're sweetened with pure maple syrup and contain no added oil or margarine, only the fats that are naturally present in the oats and other ingredients.
You prepare an easy pastry dough, pipe little balls onto your baking sheet with a pastry bag. After baking, you fill them with pastry cream, and spin caramel around the tower of puffs with a fork to create thin threads.
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