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Ingredients
Biscuits
- 2 cups plain wholemeal flour
- 1 cup almond meal
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter cubed (or use olive/coconut oil)
- 1/4 cup honey
- 5 medjool dates pitted
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 1/2 tsp allspice or nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Reindeer decorations
- 25 goji berries
- 100 grams white chocolate
- 50 grams dark chocolate
- Piping bag or use a ziplock bag and snip a corner off when ready to use
Ingredients
Biscuits
Reindeer decorations
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Instructions
Biscuits
- In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, almond meal, baking powder and the spices.
- In a second bowl, combine the butter cubes (or oil), honey, dates, vanilla and egg. Using a hand blender, blend these wet ingredients until well combined. Alternatively, use a food processor or blender.
- Add the butter mixture to the flour mixture and mix well to combine.
- Turn the dough out onto a clean surface and roll out to around 3mm thick.
- Line a baking tray with baking paper and place dough onto tray.
- Cover with another piece of baking paper and place in the fridge to firm up.
- Just before removing from the fridge, pre-heat the oven to 150C.
- After an hour, remove from the fridge and use your gingerbread cutter to cut the dough into shape. Re-roll leftover dough and keep cutting biscuits from it to use it all up.
- Return to the lined baking tray and place into the oven.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes, checking regularly.
- When starting to turn golden brown, remove from the oven and set aside to cool.
Reindeer decoration:
- Melt the white chocolate with 10 dark choc chips in the microwave or on a double boiler to make the light brown.
- Pipe onto cookie to create the shape of the reindeer's head. Stick the goji berries on for the nose before the chocolate has set.
- Melt the remaining dark chocolate and carefully pipe out the reindeer's antlers, inner ears, eyes and mouth.
Recipe Notes
Makes around 25 biscuits, at 82 calories each.