Louise’s Low Oxalate Kitchen
Let’s kick off with a treat! Following the LOD means not being able to just buy off the shelf on most occasions and these ‘cookies’ are a delicious treat for everyone! Working with coconut flour is interesting and any recipes that uses it with a description of ‘bread or cookies’ means ‘cake’! Perhaps I should be calling these ‘cake cookies’ to lower expectations. They are however still enjoyable! I’m still experimenting and will be posting other coconut flour recipes as they are perfected! To achieve a truly crisp cookie you will need the use of a dehydrator for a dunkable treat!
Apple and Cranberry Cookies: Makes approx. 9: gluten free, vegetarian, 1.2 mg oxalate per cookie
2/3 cup coconut flour
1/4 cup coconut oil melted (stand jar in a bowl of hot water)
2 eggs
1/4 cup runny honey
1/2 cup apple puree
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1/2 tsp apple cider vinegar or lemon juice
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup dried cranberries
Pinch salt
Method
• Preheat oven Gas Mark 4
• Line baking tray with non-stick baking parchment
• Sift flour and bicarbonate of soda into a mixing bowl
• Add all the other ingredients and mix with a wooden spoon into a ‘batter’, this will thicken slightly.
• Use a tablespoon to scoop mixture onto baking tray: 1 tbsp per cookie.
• Slightly flatten into rounds
• Bake in the centre of oven for approx. 20 minutes, until firm.
• Leave to cool on wire rack if you can!
These are ‘cookies’ with a moist sponge like texture, if you would like a firmer cookie follow one of the two stages below:
• After 20 mins cooking, place on wire rack, return to oven, turn off heat and leave for 1 hour
Or
• Turn oven to lowest setting and leave for another 20 minutes to an hour, checking regularly to avoid burning.
Dehydrator Method
• Following the 20 minute bake in the oven, carefully lift cookies onto dehydrator tray.
• Set at 70 °C for 4 hours.
• After 4 hours check for desired consistency, crisp outer and soft middle.
• Leave in dehydrator at 70°C for up to 8 hours to obtain crisp and crunchy cookies that hold up to a good dunk!
Will keep for a few days in an airtight container….but I doubt they will last that long! Enjoy!