Gingerbread Cookies
Submitted by Za on November 21, 2007 - 10:56am
Servings:
Makes 40 1.5" cookies A variation on an Anglo-American classic. Yummy and bready, spicy but not too spicy. Not too sweet. Excellent served warm topped with my Ginger Cranberry Relish—elsewhere on my profile. Happy Thanksgiving!
Ingredients:
1 cup prunes, soaked in water 30 min, then chopped
2 cup raw almonds, soaked and dehydrated
¾ cup golden flax seeds, ground in Vitamix dri-blade or in coffee-grinder
.33 cup fresh squeezed orange juice
1 teaspoon ground cloves
1½ teaspoon cinnamon
2 teaspoon fresh grated ginger, (use a microplane or else mince)
1 teaspoon ginger powder
1 teaspoon alspice
½ teaspoon sea salt, freshly ground coarse salt is best
Preparation:
Process everything unitl smooth. Refrigerate for one hour. Scoop and roll into little balls, 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch in diameter. Arrange on a teflex dehydrator sheet. Then cover all the little balls with a big sheet of wax paper or another teflex sheet and press down on the little balls through the sheet to flatten them into cookie-shapes. You could also use a rolling pin or a saucer to help flatten them. Dehydrate for 8 hours, flip onto a mesh sheet, and dehydrate another 8 hours or until desired consistency is achieved.
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I've got a batch of these in the D right now - after a few hours I tried a few and am a bit disappointed :( They are pretty bland, even with adding extra spices, and have a weird aftertaste, that I suspect is the prunes. I would try them with less flax, walnuts maybe, and perhaps raisins/dates/prunes mixture, and way more spice. Oh and more orange juice - I really like that addition, just need more because the dough was pretty dry.
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thANKS loefoodlaughter, I can't buy raw dried apricots but i will dry some myself and try this, it looks too good to miss out on.
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these sound fabulous. i happened to have dehydrated a whole flat of plums in the summer... how fortuitous. of course they are much more tart than the regular, so i guess i could add a few dates maybe...
anyway, these sound lovely!
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Dates would be much sweeter, Zoe--could you find dried apricots or raisins? (I know most Whole Foods carry some "Hunzan" raw versions of these) They might work better than dates.
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This looks great, I can't get raw prunes, any suggestions on a substitution? Would dates do it?