GAPS Low Oxalate Cut Out Cookies
I got this recipe from Gluten Free Fix and made a few changes as usual to lower the sugar and make it more GAPS friendly although this one is GAPS legal as written.
- 1/2 cup butter melted
- 1 cup Dates pitted (if you have a scale 8 oz of dates is about 1 cup)
- 2-4 tbsp hot water from the kettle
- 2 eggs
- 1.5 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1/8 tsp Salt
- 1/16 tsp Baking Soda
- 1 cup Coconut Flour packed
Put the dates and hot water into the blender or food processor. Start with just 1 tbsp of hot water and increase till the dates are a very thick paste. If doing this in a blender you can add the butter at the start. In a food processor add the butter a little at a time and process till it is blended in or it will slosh out and make a mess. Once the butter, dates and water are a smooth paste (expect some smaller bits of date) add the eggs. Process again till blended and smooth. Then add the vanilla and salt and blend until smooth.Lastly add the coconut flour and baking soda and process till blended evenly. This will make a thick dough. I made it in my food processor. It might be too much for some blenders and you should mix in the coconut flour by hand. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill at least an hour.
Preheat oven to 325
Remove the dough from the fridge and start with just half of the dough roll it out between two sheets of parchment paper or wax paper. Adding more flour to keep it from sticking isn’t a good idea and it will crumble and stick to the rolling pin if you don’t use the parchment paper. Roll to about 1/4 in thick. Cut out with cookie cutters and carefully lift onto a parchment paper lined cookie sheet. I used a spatula. This is extremely delicate dough. These won’t spread so you can put them very close together. This recipe filled 1 1/2 sheet and 1 1/4 sheet pan if you are wanting to know how many cookies it makes.
Bake for 8-10 min until lightly browned and take the pan out of the oven. Allow the cookies to cool on the pan before trying to move them. They are still very delicate until cool. I didn’t decorate these but you could make a frosting with butter and honey or stevia (stevia isn’t gaps legal) and use some food coloring like this one.
I hope you enjoy them as much as we did. Let me know if you make them and how you liked them! Also if you come up with a fun, GAPS legal way to decorate them I would love to hear it.
If you want to Jazz them up I have come up with a White Chocolate Filling. Go check it out!
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Wow, just what I've been hoping for! Frosting idea: what do you think about trying the marshmallow frosting from Internal Bliss and coloring it? If I try it I'll let you know.
I'm not sure the marshmallow frosting will be typical for this application. We find it to be very sweet and it is marshmallow texture if I recal. That isn't what I expect on a cookie but it wouldn't be bad necessarily. Let me know if you do it and how you like it.
Could you do one where you cook the honey until it starts to set up harder, add butter and cookit down and then flavor with vanilla and maybe color with food dyes (like spinach makes a lovely green! I have used it in cake icing before.
You won’t want to cook the honey as cooked honey is toxic. I’d love to offer a different idea being that I nixed cooking the honey idea .. but alas, I don’t have one! Sorry!!
RiAnnon,I'm not familiar with that. Do you have a link or further instructions? Thanks!
RiAnnon,I'm not familiar with that. Do you have a link or further instructions? Thanks!
I made these cookies last night, they were soft, I was thinking they would be crispy, but they were very good. I felt like it needed another flavor in there, maybe vanilla or some nuts?
They don't get crunchy, that is true. Sadly nuts are all high oxalate so those are out for my family and those following the LOD. You could add vanilla, or spices to make it more interesting. Again many spices are very high oxalate so I leave them out to keep these foods safe for all of us. You also might try frosting them with something flavored like lemon or mint. Those could also be included in the cookie dough.
Ah, this is a new term for me. i will have to google Oxalate!
Thanks for the recipe, I can't wait to try it! Just one comment: I've found that rolling dough between two flexible cutting boards (the really thin ones) works much better than parchment paper, which wrinkles a lot.
Odddlycrunchy- That's a great idea! I don't have any of those but now I want 2! I do hate the waste of tossing the parchment.
I made the dough for these on Tuesday, but left it in the refrigerator until today (Sat). It rolled out beautifully between the parchment papers and did not stick to them at all, so I was able to re-use them for baking the cookies. The cookies cut really nicely with our cutters, I was so pleased with how easy the dough was to work with. My children enjoyed sneaking tastes of the dough and loved the cookies once they had been baked. I am going to try frosting a few tomorrow. I got 7 largish teddy bear cookies and 3 medium flowers out of the first half of the dough (with scraps left over to hand-form two initial cookies for my children). That was more than I expected, so that was a nice surprise! I love that the dough is GAPS friendly and doesn’t have any added sweetener except the dates, and it is really nice that it doesn’t include nuts because I can’t send baked goods made with almond flour to my son’s preschool. Thank you for the recipe, I am sure we will make it again!
That is great! So glad you liked them!
I’m just making these now and we’re in the process of adding LOD to our GAPS diet. Is honey high oxalate, or are these just sweetened with dates for taste?
Actually dates have more oxalates than honey. This uses dates for a few reasons. My family handles the sugar from dates better than from honey. Also there is a concern that cooked honey is bad for you so I try to make my baked goods without it when possible. Also I think that using dates to sweeten it makes the cookie moister and hides the too dry taste that I dislike in coconut flour baked goods.
Oh, don’t mind me. I just saw you still recommend honey for the frosting so I guess it’s okay.
My kiddos can’t have dairy so I switched the butter for palm shortening and it turned out well.
Thanks for sharing that it worked with palm shortening. Yes honey is low oxalate. Even lower than dates.
We make these regularly now- love them! I find they go pretty soft when I try to store them and also my son gets a bit hyped up and excited making them so we only use about 1/3 or 1/2 of the dough at a time.
I had some some dough in the fridge that I wasn’t go to use after a few days so I popped it in the freezer and it kept really well. The only thing I find with storing the dough for a while is it gets really cold and crumbly but if you warm it in your hands it’s perfect again.
Thanks so much Patty for such a great tasting, simple recipe. We make mini-animal cookies and they are well loved here
I’m so glad! What a great idea to make them into animal cookies!
Can these be made with one cup of prunes instead of the cup of dates?
I would think so although I haven’t ever baked using prunes to sweeten.
Hi love you site! That for the great info. I have 1 concern with this recipe called “low oxalate“. On the website low oxalate dot info, which i believe i found through you, stated that dates are High oxalates. DO you know you different? Love dates!
Oxalate is all about dose. You need to look up how much oxalate is in a serving. Some foods are always off the menu because of their extremely high oxalate content, like spinach and almonds. But other foods are ok in small doses. Are you a member of the Trying Low Oxalate Yahoo group? They have the most up to date oxalate counts in the files there. That is where you need to look. I am prohibited from sharing their info here.