| I have tried many raw cookie recipes over the years | | | | 1 cup walnuts |
| but haven't found many that were good. Usually the | | | | 1 cup raisins |
| cookies were tart, never really sweet enough. | | | | 2 tsp. vanilla |
| Certainly not like I ate growing up when we used | | | | 1 tsp. cinnamon |
| sugar and fats. | | | | Place the walnuts in the food processor and process |
| I did some experimenting and found the cookie base | | | | and pulse until you have partly very small chunks and |
| was the problem. I experimented with various fruits, | | | | partly very fine granular pieces. Empty food |
| nuts and seeds and came up with a combination that | | | | processor and set aside. |
| worked and will hold together. When I serve these | | | | Place in the food processor: the cored Jonagold |
| cookies, no one knows they are not cooked. They | | | | apples with peel on, bananas, pitted dates, raisins. Mix |
| are raw, alive, healthy, and easy to make. With all the | | | | together, but not too long. Then add the walnuts and |
| enzymes, nutrients, vitamins and minerals, etc. No | | | | lightly mix. Then slowly add the soaked, rinsed and |
| harmful, fats or sugars. Nothing but goodness. | | | | drained sunflower seeds along with the vanilla and |
| For this easy free raw recipe, you'll need a | | | | cinnamon. Mix together until mixed but not too long. |
| dehydrator. Usually the Excalibur brand is used by raw | | | | Using a spring-action ice cream scoop place the |
| food chefs however there are others. Dehydrators | | | | cookie mixture on teflex sheets and press down |
| with the fan in back are best, but any will work, just | | | | lightly until about 1/2 inch thick or so. You'll need 2-3 |
| keep the temperature very low. | | | | teflex sheets depending on the size of your cookie. |
| Equipment: A dehydrator and you'll need a food | | | | Place in the dehydrator at about 95 to 105 degrees |
| processor. | | | | or so for about 6 hours and then turn over by using |
| Now for the raw fruit cookie recipe: | | | | another teflex sheet and tray on top and flipping |
| Ingredients, soaked sunflower seeds, Jonagold apples, | | | | over. Pull sheet back. Dehydrate for several more |
| bananas, Medjool dates, walnuts, raisins, vanilla and | | | | hours - at least 8 hours or so. I like them a little soft. |
| cinnamon | | | | If too soft, then dehydrate longer. Store in airtight |
| You'll need to soak 2 cups of sunflower seeds | | | | jar in the refrigerator. Ummmm- eat! |
| overnight, drain and rinse. Set aside for a while to | | | | This is the best raw cookie recipe - healthy, alive and |
| sprout - up to 2 hours or so. Seeds get bitter if | | | | loaded with good nutrition. Great for the kids. They |
| soaked a long time. | | | | are not the kind of cookies that cause you to gain |
| Best Raw Cookie Recipe | | | | weight. These are so good for snacks and to take |
| 2 cups sunflower seeds, soaked | | | | with you when you leave home instead of taking |
| 2 Jonagold apples or other sweet apples, but | | | | along expensive food bars. You can save lots of |
| Jonagold work best | | | | money on bars by making these cookies. Filling too. A |
| 2 ripe organic bananas | | | | truly healthy raw recipe. |
| 4 Medjool dates, pitted | | | | |