Croatia

Healthy vanilla cookies 

by Mia Marušić, 7.d

Ingredients:  

• 150 g almonds 
• 50 g almond butter 
• 100 g walnuts 
• 50 g coconut flour 
• 40 g tapioca flour
• 20 g flax seed + 30 ml orange juice 
• 150 g agave syrup 
• 50 g odorless coconut oil  
• ½ teaspoon cardamom 
• Quarter teaspoon grated orange peel 

Steps:

1. Make almond butter in a blender just with almonds (without anything else), blend until you have butter structure.
2. Grind almonds and walnuts into flour. Add all the other dry ingredients.
3. Grind flax seed in a coffee grinder or blender and add orange juice.
4. Let the dough rest for about ten minutes.
5. Mix wet ingredients and add them to the dry ones and mix the dough.
6. Form the dough into buns or into shapes and bake at 150 ˙C for 7 to 10 minutes.
7. Finally dip the cookies in melted chocolate and roll into coconut flour.