Recipes from amazing women.

During our Womens Circles we share some recipes and bring some great treats to test. below are the receipts we have shared in case you want to give them a go! They are names after the contributor and acknowledged if we can but so often no one remembers where the came from originally, so we apologise if we don't know the original source. If you want to add one of your own send me an email.

CONTENTS:

1. Annies Lemon Cookies

2. Claires Fermented Apple Pies

3. Annies Banana and Oat Cookies

4. Claires Home made Chocolate

5. Annies nana's Rock Cakes

1. ANNIES LEMON COOKIES

Source: MyKidsLickthebowl.com

Ingredients

• 100 g rolled oats 1 cup-You can use either traditional rolled oats or quick cook oats.

• 125 g flour ¾ cup - you can mix any non gluten flour I have used a mix of rice and gluten free flour

• 25 g desiccated coconut ¼ cup

• 110 g sugar ½cup - you can replace with Stevia or a non sugar sweetener

• ½ teaspoon baking powder

• 75 g melted butter- This can be substituted with coconut oil

• 1 egg

• 15 ml Honey 1 Tablespoon

• 120 ml lemon juice Juice of 2 lemons, ½ cup - fresh is REALLY a lot better

• 1 Tablespoon lemon zest Zest of 1 lemon- optional if you dont have any

Instructions

• Preheat your oven to 180 degrees celsius. You will need 2 bowls for this recipe

• In the first bowl place dry ingredients: oats, flour, coconut, sugar, baking powder. Whisk them together to combine.

• In the second bowl whisk the wet ingredients, i.e. melted butter, egg, honey, lemon juice, and lemon zest.

• Add the wet ingredients to dry ingredients, mix to combine, the cookie batter will be quite wet.

• Place large spoonfuls onto a baking tray, generous tablespoons resulted in 16 cookies, you can do smaller spoonfuls, shape the cookies with the back of your spoon to make them roundish... they don't need to be perfectly round, but you do want the flattish, they will spread a little during baking.Be gentle with the batter, it will be quite wet, use a wet spoon, this will stop the batter from sticking and make it easier to form the cookies.

• Bake at 180 degrees Celsius, 360 Fahrenheit for 10-12 mins until just golden on the edges

• Cool

• Optional drizzle with melted white chocolate (to do this I melt white chocolate drops in the microwave, I then stir through a little coconut oil (this loosens the melted chocolate so that it drizzles nicely.

Nutrition

Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 131kcal | Carbohydrates: 19g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 3g| Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 20mg | Sodium: 19mg | Potassium: 53mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 8g | Vitamin A: 133IU | Vitamin C: 3mg | Calcium: 16mg | Iron: 1mg

2. CLAIRES FERMENTED APPLE PIES

INGREDIENTS:

Ingredients:

-6 cups (approximately 12 apples) of granny smith apples, peeled & de-cored

-¼ cup water

-¼ to ½ cup brown sugar or rapadura

-¼ cup sultanas

-½ tsp fine salt, himalayan or celtic sea salt

-zest & juice of ½ lemon

-1/2 to 1 tbsp cinnamon

-pinch of nutmeg

-pinch of chinese fivespice powder-optional

-1/8 tsp sugar-loving probiotic starter= probiotic capsule

Instructions:

-put all the ingredients into saucepan, except probiotic, bring to a boil & then reduce to a simmer.

-simmer for approxiamately ½ hour or until apples are very tender.

-cool down at room temperature & transfer to a glass container.

*when fermenting, always make sure you have clean hands & clean container …you don’t want the wrong bacteria to be multiplying!!!

-now that your apple pie has cooled down to room temperature you add your probiotic by simply opening the capsule into your mixture and mix throughout with a wooden spoon.

-cover, leave at room temperature away from direct light for 1 to 2 days (i personally prefer 1 day) & then keep in the fridge. If it is hot in the house only ferment for 12 hours.

-serve on its own or with your choice of yogurt/ice cream/topping & enjoy 😊

Notes:

-start slowly if you never had fermented food.

-my preferred probiotic is “multiflora, orthoplex green” found in health food stores.

-the probiotics will double every 20 minutes while fermenting on your counter. Once placed in the fridge the fermentation stops and the goodness remains unless the mixture is cooked or heated.

-all condiments (except peanut butter) can be fermented as long as they do not have preservatives in them. Ferment away ketchup, mustard, jams, apple sauce, salsa,…

3. ANNIES BANANA AND OAT COOKIES

Source: MyKidsLickthebowl.com

Ingredients

• 110 g butter (softened)

• 50 g brown sugar ¼ cup - you can use any granulated sugar . If I use Stevia I find the batter a bit thin.

• 85 g banana 1 medium banana peeled

• 1 teaspoon vanilla

• 100 g quick cook oats 1 cup

• 75 g flour ½ cup - This recipe will work with gluten-free flour or wholemeal flour as a substitute.

• ½ teaspoon baking powder

• 1 teaspoon cinnamon

• choc chips Quantity is up to you ½-1 cup

Instructions

• Cream the butter and sugar, I use my stand mixer for this but you can use a handheld beater or a wooden spoon and some elbow grease.

• Add the banana and vanilla, my stand mixer beats the banana into the creamed butter and sugar, if you are making these cookies by hand you will need to mash the banana before adding it.

• Add the flour, oats, baking powder and cinnamon. Mix until combined, I do this in the stand mixer.

• Fold in the chocolate chips.

• Optional: This cookie dough is easier to work with if you chill the dough for around 15-20 mins, but it is possible to make the cookies without chilling.

• Heat your oven to 180 degrees celsius.

• Scoop your cookie dough into 12 even portions, roll into balls, place on a lined baking tray, then flatten them gently with a fork

• Bake at 180 degrees celsius for 10 minutes until lightly golden brown on the edges. The cookies will be soft, cool for 5 minutes before removing from the baking tray.

• Enjoy!

• Brown sugar: This recipe will work with any granulated sugar.

• Butter: This recipe will work with vegan butter, full-fat fairy-free margarine or coconut oil.

• Choc chips: These can be left out if desired.

Nutrition

Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 143kcal | Carbohydrates: 16g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 8g | Saturated Fat: 5g| Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 20mg | Sodium: 85mg | Potassium: 71mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin A: 234IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 22mg | Iron: 1mg

4. CLAIRES CHOCOLATE

*Base: 1 cup of walnuts

1/3 cup of cacao powder

1 cup of pitted dates

Blend until crumbly & press into a small lined shallow pan/tin (this will be sticky but well worth it)

*top layer: 1 ripe large avocado

3 tbsp of honey

3 tbsp of cacao powder

2 tsp vanilla extract

pinch of salt

pinch of cinnamon

Blend & spread over base

Freeze for 1 hour, then cut into squares & enjoy! 😊

I keep mine in the freezer & just get a piece or 2 when desired. Also great when unexpected guests arrive!

5. ANNIES NANNAS ROCK CAKES

• 2 cup self-raising flour sifted

• 2/3 cup caster sugar- can be Stevia

• 1 1/2 cup sultanas

• 125 g butter melted

• 2 egg lightly beaten

• 1 tsp vanilla essence

• 1 tbs milk optional

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180C.

2. Grease baking trays.

3. Combine flour, sugar and sultanas in a bowl. Make a well in the centre.

4. Add butter, eggs and vanilla. Stir gently to combine. Mixture should be slightly sticky.

5. Add milk if the flour does not completely combine.

6. Drop heaped tablespoonfuls of mixture onto greased trays, allowing room for spreading.

7. Bake for approximately 12 minutes, or until lightly golden and firm to the touch.

8. Stand on trays for 5 minutes.

9. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.