Sometimes out of adversity, comes miracles. Well, okay, I am being overly dramatic here. But once you taste these little morsels you might well agree with me.
The Natural New Age Girl found a recipe she wanted to make for gluten-free biscuits. Unfortunately, we only had one ingredient on the list. So, we decided to invent, create and throw some random things together and see if it would work!
What we ended up with were these chewy, fudgy, yummy biccies. I had to hide some for photos before they were all demolished!
Safe to say our experiment turned out well.
They are gluten-free, egg-free, dairy-free, vegetarian and thermomix friendly. And healthy. Make a double batch.
Just to be sure you get one.
Healthy Fig, Cinnamon and Pecan Biccies
Okay so this is what you need:
1 1/2 cups organic almond meal
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 tablespoon organic cinnamon
2 tablespoons organic Australian olive oil (or coconut oil or macadamia oil)
4 tablespoons organic apple juice concentrate (or honey or maple syrup)
1/4 cup finely chopped organic dried figs
1/4 cup finely chopped pecans
Okay, so this is how you do it:
Fling the almond meal, bicarb, cinnamon, pecans and figs into a bowl. Mix it up well.
Fling into another bowl the oil and apple juice concentrate and mix well.
Mix the stuff from the two bowls together.
Roll into small balls and chuck onto a baking paper lined tray. Press them down a little. Leave a good gap, because they spread out.
Whack into the oven – 160 degrees celsius for about 20 minutes.
Cool on a wire rack. Makes about 12.
Thermomix Instructions:
Make your almond meal by milling on speed 9 for about 10 seconds. Add dry ingredients and mix well on reverse, speed 4 for 10 seconds.
Add wet ingredients and mix again on reverse, speed 4 for 10 seconds.
Note: Mix it up and use cacao, coconut and goji berries instead of the fig and pecan!
Enjoy.
They sound amazing!! Definitely being making these – love it when you stumble across brilliance 🙂
we were pleasantly surprised !! 😉
Soooo yummy! Love this flavour combo and the fact you use olive oil instead of butter… Have not tried that. Does it overpower the taste?
no, not at all ! I would have used coconut oil, as that is my favourite at the moment, but didn’t think the taste would work with this combo…. will give it a go with a chocolate/craisin/coconut mix. 🙂
Just made these…delish! In fact too darn good as I just nearly ate them all in one sitting! One out of 2 boys loves them and the husband on the other hand needs a little convincing!
awesome… more for you Lauren 🙂
These are amazing!!! LOVE them 🙂
thanks for the feedback Tammy !! 🙂
Wonderful recipe! I’ve shared on FB – my other page -https://www.facebook.com/GlutenFreeAfternoonTea
Please come and visit it sometime!
have a lovely weekend!
thanks Vicki… I just LIKED you! 🙂
Making these again tonight…..soooooooooo good!!
We made them with cocoa, coconut and craisins the other day… yummmmoooooo
Do you think it would work with fresh figs – or maybe get to mushy?
probably way too mushy – you would have to add more almond meal 🙂
Your doing a great job!
thanks Rachael 🙂
Yummy I might have to try the coconut, cocoa and craisin combo they sound great.
yummo!
Hi NNAM I was wondering if you could use dates instead of figs and honey instead of apple juice concentrate?
definitely! it is a great base recipe you can change up however you like 🙂
These look fantastic and I just laughed out loud at your urber cool fling in technique! I LOVE it!
You really need to bring out a cookbook, or a TV show, your awesome XXX
I am always flinging and whacking!! I would make a very poor TV chef as I am so messy and disorganized 🙂
Awesome – I am in need of a change from chocolate too! Tomorrow’s baking with the kids adventure sorted x