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BROWN SUGAR APPLE TARTS

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Autumn deliciousness incoming! 🙂

 

BROWN SUGAR APPLE TARTS
 
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Recipe type: Dessert
Serves: 8
Ingredients
  • Crust
  • 300 gr flour, 2-3 tbsp more for rolling dough
  • 150 gr chilled butter, small cubes
  • pinch of salt
  • 2 small eggs
  • 2-3 tbsp ice water
  • Filling
  • 5-6 apples, peeled or unpeeled, thinly sliced
  • 5 tbsp dark brown soft sugar
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • 5 tbsp toasted walnuts, chopped
  • 3 tbsp pumpkin seeds
  • 3 tbsp candied orange peel
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven at 190 degrees C/ 375 degrees F.
  2. Combine flour, salt and butter until the mix resembles small crumbs.
  3. Add egg and ice water and form dough.
  4. If the dough is too wet, add more flour gradually, until the dough doesn't stick.
  5. Chill dough in the fridge for 30 mins
  6. Roll dough and place in small tart pans.
  7. Mix brown sugar with cinnamon.
  8. Sprinkle a layer of brown sugar with cinnamon over each tart crust, add a few walnuts and pumpkin seeds.
  9. Layer apple slices (7-10 slices) on top of the walnuts and pumpkin seeds.
  10. On top of the layered apple slices, add the rest of the walnuts, pumpkin seeds, and the candied orange peel.
  11. Sprinkle heavy with remaining brown sugar and cinnamon mix.
  12. Give each tart a real quick oil spray.
  13. Bake at 190 degrees C/ 375 degrees F for 15-18 minutes.

 

SESAME COOKIES [GLUTEN-FREE, SUGAR-FREE]

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Sesame cookies with raspberry jam recipe diybitesPrep yourselves for these delicious, crisp, gluten-free, sugar-free cookies! You’ll only need a few ingredients and they’re fast to make. There are a lot of sesame seeds involved in this recipe, but did you know sesame seeds are an excellent source of copper, manganese, magnesium, iron, and vitamin B? 😎 In addition, sesame seeds contain two unique properties: sesamin and sesamolin. They belong to a group of valuable fibers, called lignans, which were found to lower cholesterol in humans. Sesamin, for example, has been found to protect the liver from oxidative damage 👊.

The only sweetness in these cookies comes from the 2 tbsp of honey, so expect them to be the not-really-that-sweet-yet-awesome type of cookies. However, feel free to add 1 extra tbsp of honey for more sweetness + extra 1 tbsp of rice flour. You can substitute honey in this recipe with 1 tbsp agave nectar.

You’ll get 8-9 medium sized cookies from this recipe. Optionally, you can serve them with lemon icing and raspberry jam. If you’re not into raspberry jam (weirdo😀), substitute with peach, blackberry, or even strawberry 🍓.

Full recipe and nutritional info ⤵️

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SESAME COOKIES [GLUTEN-FREE, SUGAR-FREE]
 
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Recipe type: Gluten-Free, Sugar-Free
Serves: 8
Ingredients
  • 2 tbsp coconut oil, liquid
  • 3 tbsp fresh lemon juice
  • 1 tsp lemon zest
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 5 tbsp sesame seeds, toasted
  • 2 tbsp pure honey
  • 12 tbsp brown rice flour
  • 1 medium free-range egg
  • Optionally, for icing
  • 4 tbsp powdered sugar
  • 1 tbsp fresh lemon or orange juice
  • Optionally, 3 tbsp sugar-free raspberry jam or other preferred
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven at 180 degrees C/ 356 degrees F
  2. In a medium bowl, mix coconut oil, lemon juice, lemon zest, and vanilla extract.
  3. Add toasted sesame seeds and rice flour, and stir. The consistency of the dough should be crumbly.
  4. Add the egg and mix well. The consistency should now be pasty, moldable.
  5. Spread dough onto surface and press it down with your hand or the bottom of a glass, until it reaches about 2 cm.
  6. Cut cookies using your favorite cookie cutters or a glass.
  7. Bake cookies for 8 minutes, flip them over, and cook for another 5-8 minutes, or until golden.
Notes
Optionally:
For the icing, mix 4 tbsp powdered sugar with 1 tbsp fresh lemon or orange juice and spread icing on cookies.
Add ½ tsp of sugar-free raspberry jam on top of icing.
Nutrition Information
Serving size: 1 Calories: 144 Fat: 7 g Saturated fat: 3 g Trans fat: 3 g Carbohydrates: 18 g Sugar: 4.75 g Sodium: 10 mg Fiber: 1.6 g Protein: 3 g Cholesterol: 20 g