Eleftheria's 1st Birthday

I can’t believe that a year has passed so quickly, my daughter has gone from being a helpless tiny baby to a tiny little walking, talking, clever little person. We kept her birthday party small and enjoyed it with our close family, she loved having her parents and grandparents give her all their attention all day. As a birthday treat I made some cookies for Eleftheria and I, they were delicious and we both enjoyed them. The recipe I used was adapted from http://rawdorable.blogspot.com/ by Shannon marie a great website with tons of recipes and ideas. The recipe itself was called Chewy Trawfoils, I doubled the ingredients from the original recipe and used extra dates instead of agave syrup.

Ingredients
1 cup cashews
½ cup coconut flakes, ground into a powder
½ cup sesame seeds, ground into a powder
½ cup flaxseed, ground
10 medjool dates
1 tsp. Vanilla powder
dash of sea salt
10 tbsp water.

I ground the cashews, coconut flakes, sesame seeds and flaxseeds into a fine powder using a coffee grinder. I then chucked everything into a food processor adding the water bit by bit and processed it until I had a smooth sticky mixture.
I placed the dough onto a teflex sheet on a flat surface covered it with another teflex sheet and using a rolling pin rolled it out into a flat sheet about half a centimetre thick. Using cookie cutters I then cut out various shapes. Carefully removing the left over bits of dough around the shapes, and not disturbing the cookies on the original teflex sheet, I put the tray in the dehydrator and repeated the rolling of the dough and cookie cutting step until I had no dough left.
I dehydrated the cookies for about 12 hours until they were solid but still chewy, flipping over halfway through and removing the teflex.



The results were chewy little mild tahini flavoured not so sweet cookies. A definite recipe for keeping. The cookies store well in an air tight container, mine lasted about 4 days before we had eaten them all.