Healthy Date, Almond and Oat Cookies

I love making/ baking anything that is healthy, so I was really excited to come across a healthy chocolate chip cookie recipe that used Coconut oil as the fat source. I took parts of this recipe and adapted it to include oats and dates, and it worked really well! The result was a soft in the middle, yet slightly chewy around the edge cookie and they were so good they didn't last long enough to make it in to a tupperware box! 

So have a go at making these cookies, they are very delicious, easy to make and also Vegan which is a plus! 

Recipe: (makes 12-14)

- 180g (2 cups) Almond flour

- 90g (1 cup) Oats

- About 16 small Dates, chopped

- 1/4 tsp salt

- 1/4 tsp baking powder

- 55g (1/4 cup) Coconut oil, melted

- 2 tbsp Honey

- 1 tbsp Vanilla extract

To make: 

- Preheat the oven to 200c and grease and line a baking tray. Melt the coconut oil- I find this easiest done in a little bowl in the microwave.

- Mix all of the dry ingredients together in a large bowl, and then add the wet ingredients and mix. The mixture will be quite crumbly, but If you feel it is too crumbly then add more coconut oil or even a little milk might work to bind it together. 

- Then wrap the dough in some cling film and leave to rest in the fridge for 20-30 mins just to cool down.

- Take the dough and roll in to balls and place on to the baking tray. Then squash down the balls to make in to a cookie shape. 

- Bake for about 7-9 minutes, but keep an eye on them as they will brown around the edges quickly. Take them out when they are lightly browned on top and underneath. 

- Allow them to cool on a wire rack before eating them as they will be quite crumbly when still warm.

- Then enjoy!! 


Photo how to:

Chopping the dates in to small, rough chunks

The dough resting in cling film

The balls of dough squashed in to cookie shape

The cookies ready for baking 

The cookies cooling on the wire rack and looking delicious! 

Enjoy!!

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Almond, Rosemary and Fig savoury biscuits!

I haven't done any baking for a while, so I decided it was time! I found this recipe for rosemary and fig biscuits (but really they are more like crackers), but instead of using normal flour, they use Almond flour/ground Almonds. This means that they are high in protein which is good :)

The Recipe: (makes about 25 biscuits)

-1 1/2 Cups of Almond flour

-1/2 teaspoon of rock salt

-1 tsp Rosemary, finely chopped

-4 dried figs, finely chopped

-1 egg

-1 tbsp Olive oil

To make:

-In a mixing bowl, stir together the almond flour, salt, rosemary and dried figs. Then add the egg and olive oil.

-Stir the mix until combined. 

-Roll out the mix inbetween 2 pieces of baking paper, so that you can get it nice and thin (about 1/8 inch thick), then cut in to sqaures with a knife or pizza cutter.

-Then bake on about 150c, for 8-10mins (but keep an eye on them as they brown quickly) until lightly browned on top and bottom.

-Enjoy!

Chopping the Figs and Rosemary, and below the dry ingredients on the left and then adding of the wet on the right!

This is what the mix looks like once combined, then below is the mixture having been rolled out!

Above is the mixture once it has been cut in to shapes (you can make up ones from little bits of mix). Then below are the biscuits ready to go in the oven!

And these are the finished biscuits cooling on a wire rack! Yum!