Monthly Archives: January 2012

Double Chocolate Chip Cookies

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These lovely egg free, grain free cookies are better than the grain versions any day. Get ready to die and go to heaven.

Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
(makes 30 good sized cookies)

What you will need:

3 cups almond flour
1/2 cup cocoa or carob powder
1/2 tsp unrefined salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup butter, ghee or coconut oil (ghee version in the photos)
1/2 cup honey
1tsp vanilla extract
1 cup chocolate chips or chunks

How to do it:

Step 1: Combine almond flour, cocoa powder, unrefined salt and baking soda in a bowl.

Step 2: Melt butter and honey with vanilla on the stovetop until nice soft stir ‘able’ consistency.

Step 3: Mix dry and wet ingredients together.

Step 4: Generously grease a cookie sheet.

Step 5: Roll batter into balls.

Step 6: Bake in the oven at 350 degrees F for 20 min. Let cool for 25minutes (at least if you want them to stick together). They taste way better at 25 minutes than at 10, seriously….wait and then serve!

Seed Cereal

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This yummy alternative to boxed cereal makes a delicious breakfast or layer to a yogurt parfait. Tastes great with Manitoba Harvest hemp milk.

Seed Cereal (adapted from Cranberry Maple Granola from the cookbook Raw Food, Real World)

What you will need:

1 apple cored and chopped
1 cup dates
½ cup water
½ cup of unrefined liquid sweetener
2 Tbsp lemon juice
2 Tbsp orange zest
1 Tbsp vanilla extract
1 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp sea salt

2 cups sesame seeds
2 cups sunflower seeds
1 cup pumpkin seeds

1 cup dried cranberries
½ cup flax/chia seeds
Coconut oil or butter

How to do it:

Step 1: Soak all the seeds 2 hours or longer

Step 2: Soak Cranberries.

Step 3: Coarsely chop all the seeds (except the chia/flax seeds) with a few quick pulses in the food processor and the transfer to a large mixing bowl. Stir in flax/chia seeds.

Step 4: Place apples, dates, water, maple syrup, lemon juice, orange zest, vanilla, cinnamon and salt in the food processor. Stir into the seed mix.

Step 5: Mix in the cranberries.

Step 6: Spread onto 2 large cookie sheets oiled with generous amounts of coconut oil or butter. Dehydrate in the oven at the lowest temperature until crunchy (about 6-8 hours).

Enjoy!

Sensational Shortbread (a new twist on an old classic)

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This shortbread is made the classic old world way, just like grandma used to make but with grain free flair!

Sensational Shortbread (Makes 8 pie shaped pieces or 15 med cookies)

What you will need:

1/2 cup butter room temp

1/4 cup unrefined sugar or honey

1 tsp vanilla extract

1/8 tsp unrefined salt

1/4 tsp baking soda

3 cups almond flour (more or less depending on the almond flour you are using, but it should be workable without sticking too much to your fingers! 3 cups Bob’s Red Mill almond flour and honey are used in the version shown in the photo.)

How to do it:

Step 1: “Cream” the room temperature butter with a wooden spoon until creamy.

Step 2: Mix in spreadable honey (just warm it on low if you only have the solid kind on hand).

Step 3: Stir in vanilla extract, baking soda and salt with a fork.

Step 4: Mix in the almond flour until consistency is even.

Step 5: Generously oil a cookie sheet.

Step 6: Roll into cookies and then press down with a fork (or see alternate steps below for the traditional version).

Step 7: Bake at 325 degrees F for 16 minutes (depending on the thickness).

Step 8: Take out of the oven and let cool for 10 minutes.

 

Traditional Version:

Step 6: Form the dough into a ball.

Step 7: Get out your cookie sheet and line with parchment paper (or just generously grease).

Step 8: Press dough ball out with your fingers onto your cookie sheet into a circle (the thinner the better for a traditional crumby texture or thicker for a more wet texture). Smooth out the top with your palms and “prick” lines in with a fork (like a pizza) to slice along later.

Step 9: Bake at 325 degrees F for 16 minutes (depending on the thickness).

Step 10: Take out of the oven and let cool completely for cutting and best texture (otherwise it will crumble if you try to do it sooner).

Step 11: Slice into triangles and serve!.