Orange & Vanilla Cookies

August 3, 2013 · by · Leave a Comment

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Orange & Vanilla Cookies
Urgent Cookie Craving! So I baked these. Plenty to cure cravings for a week, as it makes about 60 small to medium cookies 😉
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Cuisine: vegan
Recipe type: cookies
Serves: 60
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You need
  • 2 cups of (spelt) flour
  • ½ cup of melted coconut oil (I used deodorized oil)
  • ¾ coconut palm sugar
  • a pinch of salt
  • zest of 2 oranges
  • 2 tsp vanilla paste
  • 1 tbsp molasses
  • 1 tsp of baking powder (aluminium free)
To do
  1. mix dry ingredients
  2. mix liquid ingredients
  3. slowly add liquid mixture to dry mixture, stirring it in with a wooden spoon
  4. it's quite OK for it to be crumbly as long as it is nicely mixed and you can form balls out of the dough
  5. pre-heat oven to 160-170C and place baking paper on oven tray
  6. take a small hand of dough and press it together, then flatten it and either transfer to baking tray, or use a cookie cutter for nice shapes
  7. place tray in oven and bake for no more than 12 minutes (they will harden up once out of the oven)
  8. after a few minutes, transfer to a rack to cool down further

 

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Mini Vanilla Cinnamon Cakes

July 15, 2013 · by · Leave a Comment
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Mini Vanilla Cinnamon Cakes
OK, I'm patting myself on the shoulder for these 😉 It must be the combination of the cinnamon and the coconut palm sugar that gives a lovely deep flavour, and spelt tends to always give a nice almost crispy crust.
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Cuisine: vegan
Recipe type: Sweets
Serves: 22
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You need
  • 200gr organic white spelt flour
  • 175gr plant based butter (straight from fridge)
  • 125 coconut palm sugar
  • a pinch of salt
  • 2 tsp of vanilla paste
  • 2 tsp of cinnamon
  • 2 tbsp of melted coconut oil
  • 1 tbsp of non dairy mylk
To do
  1. Place all ingredients in a bowl and mix with mixer, using dough hooks
  2. when all has come together, spray or brush your silicon mould lightly with oil (this may not be necessary, but I did it anyway and they came out beautifully)
  3. place enough dough in each cup to make a little mount (I used a cake pop tray with lid, nice and cosy 😉 )
  4. put the tray in the oven and bake for 15 minutes, check if it is done (stick a knitting needle in, it should come out dry), leave in few more minutes if necessary. Cakes will 'crisp' up a little once out of oven.
Notes
You can also serve these as a dessert; I added a Nutmeg-Ginger dip 🙂

 

 

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