So here’s what you need to make my new favorite thing ever.. No flour, no white sugar.

If you haven’t met yet, I’d like to introduce you to my Fantel (Fantel=Fake Mantel).Chris made it for me in the Fall out of some barn wood and some 2x4s taken out of the wall when we were renovating Kennedy’s closet.. It’s definitely my funnest piece of “furniture” so far..

These bricks that I found in a pile behind the garage always seem to find their way back into my life.. A little star I made out of wire a couple of years ago inside my newest... Hosta leaves have become my go-to thing for adding a little life into whatever area of my house I think needs it in the last couple of weeks.I’m still waiting on some blooms from different plants and shrubs, so in the meantime, these do quite nicely.

They last for weeks and they’re kind of fun and tropical-looking..It only took me about 10 minutes and since I used the same basic ideas as a layout I knew would work, it didn’t make me panic and think that nothing would ever look good in this house ever and how are we ever going to find time to actually renovate anyway?.

No, that didn’t happen this time.

Thank goodness, right?But of course, feel free to triple or quadruple the recipe if you want to make a bunch to bring for a larger group!.

OK, so the half cookie is just because I ate a little too much right out of the mixing bowl.. Once you’ve got your 9.5 cookies on your cookie sheet, just stick them in the fridge for 10 minutes or so and you’ll be ready to chow down guilt-free-ish!Of course these cookies still have quite a bit of sugar in them, but the sweetness from the maple syrup is so much better than the huge amount of white sugar that the original recipe had!

I’ve tried this recipe with honey too and I liked it, but it wasn’t Kennedy’s favorite because she’s not much of a honey girl..What kind of a monster am I raising over here?