Thumbprint Cookies
Gaps and LOD compliant
adapted from This recipe on Primal Palate
My family has been following the GAPS diet strictly for over 2 years with no end in sight right now. 2 of us began eating a low oxalate version of GAPS in the spring and also don’t see that ending any time soon. We enjoy or savory meats and veggies but at this time of year we really want to partake in the festivities and that means we want some sweet treats. I had a great time today baking these cookies with my kids. And they loved helping and eating them once they were done. My family has eaten very little in the way of sweets over the past 2 years and our sweet tooth is dialed way down. You may need a bit more sweet to make this taste right for you.
Thumbprint Cookies
Cookie:
- 1/2 cup expeller pressed Coconut Oil melted
- 1/4 cup honey mixed with 1/4 cup warm water (you can bump this up to 1/2 cup honey and leave out the water if you want it sweeter.)
- 4 free range eggs
- 1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1/8 tsp Celtic Sea Salt®
- 1 cup Coconut Flour
Filling:
- 5-6 Medjool Dates pitted
- 1 tbsp honey (optional)
- hot water
Cut up the dates with a knife or kitchen sheers. Put into a small bowl and pour some hot water from the kettle over them. Start with 1 tbsp and mash the dates. Keep adding hot water 1 tbsp at a time till you have a thick paste. Mine wasn’t quite smooth but that was fine. It took 4-5 tbsp but I had very large dates (and ended up with too much filling). If you want it sweeter you can add 1 tbsp of honey to this mixture as part of the liquid to thin it out. I think dates are very sweet already and don’t need anything to make them sweeter. Set this aside.
Preheat oven to 375
In a bowl with a wisk coconut oil, honey, water (if needed), eggs, vanilla extract and salt till well blended. Sift in the coconut flour and mix again. It will seem too thin at first but will firm up over a couple of minutes. It is still supposed to be a soft dough.
Assembly:
Make small balls of the dough, about 1 tbsp in size. (ours were a bit big) This cookie tastes best if it is small so don’t make them too big. Use your thumb to flatten them to make a space for the filling. Use a spoon to fill each cookie with a dollop of filling. Bake for 15 minutes. Take out and allow to cool. Enjoy!
Sorry the image quality is so poor on these photos. I’m still learning how this all works.
Making the cookies
With the filling (and a big smile)
Ready to go in the oven
Cooling they smell divine!
And the best part of all….eating!
The aprons my girls are wearing is part of a set I had a friend make for the whole family last year for Christmas. Since we do so much cooking I thought it would be fun to all have aprons (yes even my husband) that don’t exactly match but go together. I’ll have to post some photos of all of us in them sooner or later. Her Etsy shop is DeanBug Designs and the aprons are high quality and will fit the girls for a good long while. I reach for mine first from my collection of aprons (when I remember to wear one and not ruin my clothes. Oops!)
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Thanks for the recipe. I found it via the yahoogroup. I think I'll enjoy reading more of your blog.Question: our GAPS nutritionist cautioned us from eating coconut flour much; she said it is very fibrous and can irritate the gut. Do you find that to be the case with you, or you have a "limit"?
Thanks so much for stopping by. We have been on GAPS for 2 years and we can't tolerate nuts because of their high oxalate content. We really don't eat a lot of baked goods at all but when we do coconut flour is what we have to work with. We treat all baked goods like they are a special and rare treat. We are finding that we can now tolerate more fiber like in lentils and that is a nice change but we do still have to be careful of too much fiber. Your nutritionist is certainly right. Too much fiber is not a good thing for a GAPS gut and may cause more problems than it solves.Patty
Patty, do you find a difference in baking with coconut flour that is store-bought vs the kind one dehydrates at home? I have been Vitamixing the dehydrated coconut pulp but it doesn’t seem to get as fine as the flour I saw in the store - but it was about $6 in the store and the home pulp was leftover from coconut milk. Would love to hear your thoughts
Yes the biggest difference is the problem with getting it fine enough. This causes a further issue because the resulting flour is much fluffier than the coconut flour you purchase in the store so measures are tough. Most recipe do not want the flour packed but they also do not want it nearly as fluffy as the home made flour is (in my experience). My cut out cookies recipe specifies that the flour should be packed but I think if you do that for most coconut flour recipes you will have too much. I have not weighed coconut flour. That would be the way to know that you are getting the same amount of stuff though.
Makes sense. Good idea to weigh it out - I will have to splurge on a pkg of prepackaged flour & do some playing around with it!
Diluting the honey with water worked great for me. What a great idea. The raw honey I buy is always hard and thick, even during heatwaves, so not only did it make it workable, but the watered down sweetness really suited my taste buds perfectly. I enjoyed them best after they were refrigerated, believe it or not. Thanks for posting.
So glad you liked them! They continue to be one of our favorite GAPS cookies.