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Taste Sensation Carob Balls |
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Written by Dorcas Gerace
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Saturday, 19 November 2005 |
This is no-bake cookie.
Dry Ingredients:
3 cups of quick oats which have been dextrinized in a cast iron pan to toast them lightly. Be careful not to overdo so they burn and taste bitter. By dextrinizing the grain, you will be changing the starch to a digestible sugar for better digestion.
Toast 1/2 cup of hulled sesame seeds toasted to a light brown.
Toast 1 cup of  walnuts. Chop them.
Set these ingredients aside until ready to add them.
In a sauce pan, preferably double boiler TOP pan, add 2 Tblsp. toasted Carob Powder...I use Bob's Red Mill, to 2 cups of water and mix well.
Add 1/2 c. toasted sesame butter. Look for some that has less oil floating on top of the seed butter. I think Marantha brand for us out here fits that description. (I make my own, so I have no oilness to mine.)
1 scant Tblsp. Yannoh, Roma or Oskri granules (These are grain coffees). This helps to create a bitterness ie chocolate.
1 cup of currants
a pinch of salt
1 tsp. vanilla
Bring these ingredients to a boil. Meanwhile heat some water for the bottom section of the double boiler.
After the ingredients have come up the boil, place the pan into its bottom pan and add the prepared toasted ingredients. Mix well. Cover and let set until dry ingredients take up the liquid, and become cool enough to handle.
Have a bowl of water handy to wet your hands. Use an ice cream scoop to apportion the amounts and firm up the ingredients by rolling them into balls.
Store in a recycled cookie tin and refrigerate if they last long enough to make it into the refrigerator! Enjoy...
Opt: A rehydrated cherry in the middle is a nice surprise. Or even a fresh one is a delight too, if you can find them. Since they contain seeds, you will want to alert your "enjoyers" so they will bite into their cookie cautiously, unless you pit the cherries.
Happy Holidays, Dorcas Gerace, AZ
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