Author: chefalice

Yield: 2 dozen Ingredients 1 cup (125 g) Bob’s Red Mill brown rice flour1 tablespoon (7 g) flax meal2 tablespoons (30 ml) vegetable oil¼ cup (85 g) honey ½ teaspoon (3 g) salt1 teaspoon (5 ml) vanilla extract Directions Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C, or gas mark 4).place all ingredients in a food processor and process until smooth. Pinch off 1 teaspoon (5 g) of dough and roll into a ball. Place on cookie sheet and flatten slightly. Repeat with remaining dough. Bake for about 12 minutes, or until golden around the edges. Let sit for 1 minute, then remove…

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While we love classic old-fashioned shortbread, its simple flavor provides the perfect base for endless variations. For a festive, colorful spin on the traditional cookie, we wanted to add a swirl of cranberries; not only pleasing to the eye, a bright red spiral of pureed cranberries added a welcome tartness to the rich, buttery shortbread. We cooked the cranberries with orange and cinnamon to create another layer of flavor and then pureed them for a smooth texture and a filling that was easy to spread and pipe. In addition to spiraling the puree on top of the dough, we sandwiched…

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The German spice cookie lebkuchen is a holiday favorite that’s similar to a gingerbread cookie. We wanted to take the flavor profile of traditional Lebkuchen and turn the cookie into a thick, soft bar, one that would be warmly spiced and defined by the hearty flavor and chew that molasses provides; in other words, we wanted gingerbread squared. A combination of butter and shortening gave us the right balance of rich flavor (from the butter) and cakey chew (from the shortening). Generous spice, most notably from a whopping tablespoon of cinnamon, gave the dough a serious kick while some lemon…

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In addition to holiday music in department stores and colored lights adorning houses everywhere, there’s one more sign of the season that always causes a lot of excitement: The arrival of elaborate peppermint drinks at coffee shops. Peppermint mochas are popular for a reason the minty addition of the season’s iconic candy to your daily pick-me-up elevates it to full holiday status. To enjoy these flavors in another Christmastime favorite cookies we paired a rich mocha-flavored cookie with a peppermint frosting. But rather than adding a mere sprinkling of espresso powder to our chocolate cookies, we incorporated a whole half…

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Pfeffernüsse (also known as peppernuts) are a popular traditional Christmas cookie with different iterations found throughout Germany, The Netherlands, and Denmark. They’re spicy, bite-size cookies that soften and develop flavor as they age. But we’re no good at waiting when it comes to cookies; we wanted to tenderize this traditionally very lean dough by incorporating a little butter so that we could enjoy Pfeffernüsse when we made them. Despite their name, peppernuts don’t call for nuts, but we found that adding a small amount of ground almonds helped tenderize the dough further without adding too much richness. Blooming the spices…

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Made with chickpea flour, these pancakes are really delicious. The onion in this recipe is cooked quite quickly, but I’ve recently decided that, as I add caramelised onion to so many dishes, it’s worth making a big batch to always have on hand. If I’m doing so, I just cook sliced onion very slowly and gently in a heavy-based pan until the natural sugars in the onion caramelise, then spoon it into sterilised jars. It keeps in the refrigerator for months, and I’m grateful I took the trouble every time I use it.

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