Healthy Walnut Cookies With Olive Oil & Honey (Sugar-Free)
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3.8
Healthy Walnut Cookies With Olive Oil & Honey (Sugar-Free)
Description
Healthy Walnut Cookies with Olive Oil & Honey start by softening finely chopped apple in a pan until the moisture evaporates, providing natural sweetness and moisture. The mixture is combined with honey, ground cinnamon, cloves, baking soda, apple cider vinegar, vanilla extract, and olive oil to create a flavorful base. Ground walnuts are blended into the dough for texture, with some reserved for topping.
Flour is gradually incorporated to achieve a soft, oily dough that’s easy to handle. The dough is refrigerated to firm up before shaping and baking. The resulting cookies are moist and rich with a mild honey sweetness and a nutty aroma from walnuts and olive oil. Their soft texture and gentle spice make them suitable for those avoiding added sugars.
These cookies work well as a snack or alongside tea or coffee. The honey and olive oil contribute to a tender crumb, making them distinct from typical sugar-laden cookies.
Ingredients
- 1 apple peeled and seeded, Honeycrisp or any other red variety
- 6 tablespoons honey
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon cloves ground
- 1 tablespoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 200 ml olive oil
- 100 grams / 3.5 oz walnuts
- 500-550 grams / 17.6 oz all-purpose flour
Instructions
- Chop apple into very small pieces.
- Heat a non-stick pan over high heat.
- Add the apple and cook for 2-3 minutes until it starts to soften. Cover with water and reduce heat to medium. Simmer for about 15 minutes or until water evaporates.
- Transfer apple in a mixing bowl and stir in all of the remaining ingredients except the flour and walnuts.
- In a food processor blend walnuts in order to look finely chopped. Save 4-5 tablespoons to sprinkle on top of the cookies and add the remaining walnuts into the mixing bowl as well.
- Gradually add the flour while mixing the dough with your hands. It should feel really soft and oily without sticking to your hands.
- Cover the dough with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Take a large piece of parchment paper and lay it open on your working surface. Divide dough in half and shape each part into a ball.
- Place one dough ball on the center of the parchment paper and cover it with another large piece of parchment paper. Using a rolling pin, roll the dough until it's approximately ½ cm (⅛-inch) thick. Sprinkle some of the remaining blended walnuts on top and gently push with your hands to make them stick on the dough.
- With a round cookie cutter cut dough into round cookies and transfer them to a parchment-covered baking sheet. Do this with the other piece of dough. Re-rolling as needed to cut out more cookies.NOTE: Since these are soft cookies (and their dough not so dense as it's with classic hard cookies) you may need to use a flat spatula to transfer them to the baking sheet.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes or until cookies get crisp all around the edges and soft on top.
- Transfer cookies to a cooling rack.
- Store in a sealed container for 3-4 days or in a cooking tin for up to a week.
Nutrition Information
Show DetailsNutrition Facts
Serving: 34cookies
Amount Per Serving
Calories 140 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Serving | 1cookie | |
| Calories | 140kcal | 7% |
| Carbohydrates | 16g | 5% |
| Protein | 2g | 4% |
| Fat | 8g | 12% |
| Saturated Fat | 1g | 5% |
| Sodium | 97mg | 4% |
| Potassium | 36mg | 1% |
| Fiber | 1g | 4% |
| Sugar | 4g | 8% |
| Vitamin A | 3IU | 0% |
| Vitamin C | 1mg | 1% |
| Calcium | 8mg | 1% |
| Iron | 1mg | 6% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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