As soon as I read the recipe for healthy gingernut biscuits on Dannii’s blog I knew I had to make them. But they had far too much ginger in them for me and so I decided to adjust the spices and make cinnamon and vanilla biscuits. These kept fantastically well and went down a treat in the afternoon with our espresso.
Head straight on to the recipe for Cinnamon And Vanilla Biscuits ♥
I love new toys and gadgets and as soon as I got my iPad I started playing around. I found Siri and discovered that she is very clever indeed. All I had to do was open a document and use her speech recognition to dictate my blog posts. I thought this was brilliant as it would save me the time of actually typing out my thoughts. But what I did not know at the time is that this app uses data. Non fixed line data is very expensive in South Africa unless you have a contract. I have very limited data at home so I cannot make use of this awesome tool as much as I would like to. I am back to having to type up my posts which is not the end of the world.
Take a look at this inspiring recipe for ♥ Cinnamon And Vanilla Biscuits ♥ from Lavender and Lime #LavenderAndLime Share on X
However, I usually come up with things to talk about while I am driving. Not that I would be able to dictate while navigating my car on the road, as both take a lot of concentration. What I really need is for someone to come up with an app that transcribes my thoughts for me! That would work really well as I often ‘write’ blog posts in my head while trying to fall asleep at night. What also works very well are these biscuits as you can change the spices to suit your own tastes, without affecting the crunch.
Cinnamon And Vanilla Biscuits
Ingredients
- 70 g raw cashew nuts
- 70 g raw almonds
- 20 g desiccated coconut
- Pinch of flaked salt
- 2.5 mls baking powder
- 20 mls ground cinnamon
- 10 mls vanilla powder
- 5 mls lemon juice
- 45 mls maple syrup
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180° Celsius
- Place the nuts and coconut into a blender and process until fine
- Place this into a mixing bowl
- Add the salt, baking powder, spices, lemon juice and maple syrup
- Mix with a spatula to form a dough
- Divide the mixture into 8 portions
- Roll each portion into a ball and place onto a lined baking sheet
- Flatten each ball to 1cm thick
- Place in the oven and bake for 16 minutes
- Remove from the oven and leave to cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes
- Transfer to a wire rack and leave to cool completely before eating
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Disclosure: This recipe has been published with permission. To find more recipes why not buy Dannii’s recipe book Hungry Healthy Happy: How to nourish your body without giving up the foods you love which is for sale on Amazon. This post is in line with my blogging policy.
I am on leave until the 28th of April. I will reply to comments on my posts when I can while I am away.
What I blogged April 25:
- two years ago – Cheese Making Course
- three years ago – Basil Shortbread
- four years ago – Tandy Goes To Scotland!
Oh I didn’t realise that you could use Siri to record and transcribe text. I love that! 😀
Me too!
Gingernut biscuits are meant to have loads of ginger in them 😉
I am glad you found something to suit your tastes though. Thanks for linking to me.
They are excellent – baked them again this week with my niece 🙂
I like ginger too, but it can be overpowering for me as well. But I love the idea of pairing ginger with vanilla. And with the expresso, these are super intriging. The perfect 3 p.m. slump snack!
Perfect indeed – for breakfast as well 🙂
Tandy – you might not have to wait long on that app – just the other day I saw that a new app that can “see through walls” was getting ready to be released as well as one that detects body odor! Insane eh?!
BTW – these cinnamon vanilla cookies sound delightful – and would be awesome with my cup of coffee!
The body odour one would bother me!
Love the ingredients list for these cookies/biscuits. They sound so healthy yet hearty! I love the cinnamon flavor 🙂
They are very healthy and tasty 🙂
Hi Tandy, your biscuits sound amazing. I found out about extra data the hard way too, take care.
It is so frustrating Cheri!
OMG, these cinnamon vanilla biscuits look so incredibly delicious, Tandy. Pinned and going to try them soon !
Let me know when you do 🙂
I love every ingredient in these biscuits so I am sure I would love them.
Hope you try and make them Pam 🙂
I definitely want someone to make an app that transcribes my thoughts for me too! Love these biscuits, they look delicious. Bloglovin is not updating your feed, last one was April 20th?
Thanks for letting me know. My blog was down for 36 hours and that might have caused a glitch 🙂
I am looking forward to trying these biscuits.
Enjoy them, I made another batch this week 🙂
You really are a wealth of knowledge, thanks for the siri tip.
My pleasure Anna 🙂
The biscuits sound great, Tandy! Think I’ll give the book a miss…Have an enjoyable break. Hugs x.
Thank you Joy 🙂