[Ilanit]

Jammed up cookies with a walnutty crunch

Ingredients

✓ 1/2 cup walnuts
✓ 1 cup ground rolled or whole oat groats
✓ 1 cup whole wheat flour or kamut or spelt flour or whole wheat, kamut or spelt grains
✓ pinch of sea salt
✓ 2/3 cup of rice syrup
✓ 2 tablespoons unrefined oil or unrefined coconut oil
✓ 5 ounces naturally sweetened sugar free “jam” (fruit preserve)
✓ 1 teaspoon natural vanilla extract
✓ 1/2 teaspoon natural almond extract




Procedure

❦ Grind walnuts in a blender, coffee grinder, food processor or by hand between by placing them between wax paper and crushing with a rolling pin.
❦ Grind rolled oats by one of the above methods. If using whole grains grind them in a grain mill, blender or coffee mill.
❦ measure the cup after they are gorund
❦ Add walnuts, oats, flour and sea salt together in a bowl
❦ In a separate bowl, mix rice syrup, oil, jam and extracts.
❦ Pour the liquid ingredients into the dry ingredients
❦ mix until the the dry ingredients are moistened.
❦ On a lightly oiled cookie sheet, drop a tablespoon of batter per cookie
❦ Insert a small piece of walnut into the top of each cookie
❦ Bake in a 180-200 degree celcius (350 degree fahrenheit) oven for 20 minutes
❦ Makes 15-18 cookies that are about 3 inches in diameter

Variations

Instead of strawberry jam, use
• apricot jam
• peach jam
• blueberry jam
• blackberry jam
• cherry jam
• marmalade
• fig jam
• mixed berry jam
• fresh stawberries
• fresh apricots
• fresh peaches
• fresh blueberries
• fresh cherries
• fresh figs
• use the appropriate jam and add the corresponding fresh fruit to the batter

Instead of walnuts use
• almonds
• hazelnuts
• dessicated coconut
• cashews


Instead of rice malt use
• barley malt
• maple syrup
• agave syrup
• amasake


Instead of whole wheat flour use
• brown rice flour
• a combination of brown rice and chestnut flour
• a combination of whole wheat and chestnut flour
• a combination of whole wheat and corn flour


Instead of sesame oil use
• unrefined coconut oil
• high oleic sunflower (cooking grade) oil
• high oleic safflower (cooking grade) oil

Serving Suggestions

• accompany with warm soy, rice or oat milk with a dash of vanilla essence or cinnamon
• accompany with brewed dandelion coffee with soy milk froth and cinnamon sprinkles
• or follow with a cup of strong bancha tea to bring you back to earth

Planned-overs

✱ pop in lunch boxes for a treat
✱ take on picnics
✱ crush dried out biscuits and sprinkle over fresh fruit for a hearty instant crumble
✱ crush and add to pancake or waffle batter
✱ crush and add to bread dough