Gingerbread Cookies
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 cups raw almonds, soaked and dehydrated
- ¾ cup golden flax seeds, ground in Vitamix dri-blade or in coffee-grinder
- ⅓ cup fresh squeezed orange juice
- 1 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1½ teaspoons cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons 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.
Comments
Zoe writes: (November 21, 2007)
This looks great, I can’t get raw prunes, any suggestions on a substitution? Would dates do it?
LovefoodLaughter writes: (November 21, 2007)
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.
pianissima writes: (November 21, 2007)
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!
Zoe writes: (November 25, 2007)
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.
gorb writes: (December 18, 2007)
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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