Nutmlik leftover cookies

In my previous blogpost I told you about making cashew milk and what a waste it would be to throw all the nut leftovers away. That's why I want to tell you about the cookies I made from this delicious leftover pulp.

I improvised and put some ingredients together I thought couldn't fail.

Because I can't eat grains, dairy or refined sugar none of these product will be in this recipe.

Ingredients:
- nut milk leftovers from 1 liter of nutmilk, in my case cashews.
- a half cup of almond flour (I will explain how to make this but you can also buy it)
- 2 spoons of coconut oil
- a teaspoon of maple syrup
- two teaspoon of baking powder
- a hint of salt

To spice the cookies I used my current favourite spices: cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg.

To decorate you can put a nut on to but you can also add chocolate chips or raisins to the dough.

Set the oven to 200 degrees celsius.

Okay, now the most important part: how to make it! I will first epxlain very shortly how to make your own almond milk:

Take a half cup of almonds, pour them into a cooking pan, add enough water so that they're all under water. Cook this for three minutes. Take it of the pit and cool down with water. After the nuts are a normal temperature again you can remove the skin very easily. Do so. Than blend the skinned almonds in a food processor untill it looks like flour. And there you go, your own homemade almond flour.

Just keep the almond flour in you food processor, or add now. Put in the cashew pulp too and then added the coconutoil. Blend it together and add the baking powder, syrup and salt. It's now important to taste the dough so you can determine if it needs more syrup or salt. Then add the spices you like and taste again. Don't use too much spices but make sure you like the taste of your dough. Now is the time to add chocolate chips or raisins if you like. If your satified your dough is ready!

Put some bakery paper on a baking tray and take a spoon. Just take a spoon full of dough and put it on the bakery paper push it down and even it a little. I made ten cookies from this dough but you can choose to make twenty smaller ones if you like.

Put the dough in the over for 15 minutes but make sure you check every now and then. If you made bigger or smaller cookies the time will be a little different so keep an eye on your cookies. Your kitchen will be smelling amazing! ENJOY :)