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                                                                                                      yields 12 cookies                                                                                                              yields 5 dozen
                  COCONUT SANDWICH COOKIES                                                                                                                    WHITE SPELT CRACKERS
                  ¾ cup almond flour          FILLING                                                                                                         Making your own crackers may seem like a waste of time when you can purchase a variety
                  1/3 cup arrowroot starch    ½ cup palm shortening, softened                                                                                 of crackers at your local grocery. But if they’re in a package, they’ll be full of preservatives
                  3 tablespoons cacao powder  3 tablespoons arrowroot starch                                                                                  and flavor enhancers, and they won’t be as flavorful as homemade. Making your own
                                                                                                                                                              crackers takes a bit of extra time, but it’s worth it.
                  1½ tablespoons coconut flour  2 tablespoons honey
                  ½ teaspoon baking soda      2 tablespoons maple syrup                                                                                       2½ cups white spelt flour or kamut   1. Preheat the oven to 400˚ F. Line two cookie sheets with baking
                  ¼ teaspoon salt             ½ teaspoon vanilla extract                                                                                        flour (see recipe note)        paper.
                  ¼ cup coconut oil, liquefied                                                                                                                1/3 teaspoon sea salt          2. In the bowl of an electric mixer, combine the flour, salt, juice,
                  ¼ cup maple syrup                                                                                                                           ¾ cup apple juice                and oil until a smooth dough is formed. Divide the dough into
                  1 teaspoon vanilla extract                                                                                                                  1/3 cup oil                      2 parts.
                                                                                                                                                              ½ cup roasted sesame seeds     3. Place one part of the dough between two sheets of baking
                                                                                                                                                                                               paper and roll to 1/8 inch thickness. Sprinkle with the sesame
                                                                                                                                                                                               seeds and a few drops of water. To ensure that the sesame
                                                                        1. To prepare the cookies, in a medium bowl mix the                                     RECIPE NOTE  The               seeds stick to dough, run the rolling pin over the dough once
                                                                          almond flour with the arrowroot starch, cacao pow-                                    white flour can be sub-        more. Repeat with the second half of the dough.
                                                                                                                                                                stituted for 2 cups whole
                                                                          der, coconut flour, baking soda, and salt. Add the                                    spelt or whole kamut         4. Cut the dough into 2x2-inch squares. Place on the lined cookie
                                                                          coconut oil, maple syrup, and vanilla and combine                                     flour.                         sheets and bake for 10 minutes. Reduce the heat to 300˚ F and
                                                                          well.                                                                                                                bake for an additional 10 minutes.
                                                                        2. Place the dough onto a sheet of baking paper and
                                                                          form into a log 2 inches in diameter. Roll up with
                                                                          the baking paper and freeze for 30 minutes.                                                                                                                yields 5 dozen
                                                                        3. To prepare the filling, place all the filling ingredients                          ONION CRACKERS
                                                                          into the bowl of an electric mixer and whisk to form                                3 cups white spelt or 21/3 cups    1. Preheat the oven to 400˚ F. Line two cookie sheets with baking
                                                                          a cream.                                                                              kamut flour                    paper.
                                                                        4. Preheat the oven to 350˚ F. Line a cookie sheet with                               ½ cup oil                      2. In the bowl of an electric mixer, combine the flour, oil, bak-
                                                                          baking paper.                                                                       ¼ teaspoon baking powder         ing powder, pepper, salt, eggs, and onion, and knead into a
                                                                        5. Remove the cookie dough from the freezer and un-                                   ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper   smooth dough. Divide the dough into two parts.
                                                                          wrap it. Use a sharp knife to cut 24 rounds ¼ inch                                  ½ tablespoon sea salt          3. Roll out each half of the dough to 1/8 inch thickness. Sprinkle
                                                                          thick. Place on the lined cookie sheet and bake for                                 2 eggs                           with the poppy seeds and a few drops of water. Run the rolling
                                                                          10 minutes. Cool.                                                                   1 medium onion, grated           pin over the dough to ensure the poppy seeds will stick to the
                                                                        6. To assemble the cookies, spoon 1 teaspoon of the                                   2 tablespoons poppy seeds        dough.
                                                                          filling onto a cookie, and top with another cookie                                                                 4. Cut the dough into 2x2-inch squares and place on the lined
                                                                          to create a sandwich. Repeat with the remaining                                                                      cookie sheets. Bake for 10 minutes. Reduce the temperature
                                                                          cookies.                                                                                                             to 300˚ F and bake for 5 more minutes.




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