(-From “Secret Spoonfuls-Confessions of a Sneaky Mom” CD booklet)
I like this cookie recipe because there is no need to soak the flour. (All grains need to be soaked in lacto-fermented fashion.) Arrowroot is not a grain so there’s no problem with allergies. It is naturally white, too! From this one cookie dough many variations can be formulated. I freeze rolled dough and when in a pinch, I can cut them to size still frozen and pop in the oven. Sometimes I add ingredients to the frozen dough such as walnuts and raisins.
Have your ingredients at room temperature. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Blend 4 sticks of unsalted butter
1 ½-2 cups of Rapidura (Whole can sugar available at health food stores)
1 tsp Celtic salt (Whole salt)
4 tsp vanilla
Add 3 eggs
Reduce speed on blender
Slowly add 5 cups of arrowroot powder or flour
Divide the dough in 4 separate sections and choose your flavors
For Ginger Cookies– Add 1-2 Tbsp fresh ginger
For Tahini Cookies– Add ¼- ½ cup tahini butter (or peanut butter)
For Dried Fruit & Nut Cookies– Add ½ cup walnuts and ½ cup raisins. These are good with ¼ tsp allspice, 1/8 tsp of gloves, ½ tsp of cinnamon, ¼ tsp nutmeg and ½ tsp of ginger.
For Lemon Cookies– Add 1 tsp grated lemon peel. Scrub before grating.
For Orange Cookies– Do the same as above, substituting orange peel for lemon
For Coconut Cookies– Add 1 cup of finely chopped or flaked coconut
For Seed Cookies- (Sesame or Poppy) Add 4 Tbsp of your own seed of choice
Chocolate Chip Cookies-Add shards of organic chocolate bar
Lay each section in waxed paper and roll into a dough roll. Wrap and place in the freezer. They’ll remain fresh in the freezer for 2 months. When it is time to bake, preheat the oven to 375 degrees, unwrap the roll and cut into ½ inch rounds. Place on cookie sheets approximately 1 inch apart and bake for 6-8 minutes.
Transfer the cookies to a cookie rack, cool before eating. They store well in a cookie tin or jar.
I love these cookies! Thanks for reminding me of them – I think I still have a bit of dough in the freezer! Yum!
These sound scrumptious-If you want to bake these right away, should you still refrigerate the dough before baking?
Also-can you combine two variations? Chocolate and orange rolled together like the french butter cookies- Sables?
thanks : )
Yes, the reminder reminds me I might want to try these again with some variations for something sweet. For something not so sweet, I’m waiting for the cheese pucks to come up. Tried those also from “Secret Spoonfuls: Confessions of a Sneaky Mom” a couple of times; mine don’t seem to turn out quite right. Pam
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Well I can say — my family LOVES their cookies — I hope this recipe will be a great hit! Thanks for sharing!!