If you have a sweet tooth but can't eat a lot of sugar, prepare delicious desserts with dried fruits, honey, bananas, or nuts. Homemade cookies with these ingredients have an original taste and health benefits.
Sweet biscuits with dried fruits
Cookies with dried fruits - dried apricots, prunes, raisins, dried cherries - are very beautiful and tasty. Cookie dough can be prepared in advance and stored in the freezer. Before cooking, cut it into portions and bake - a healthy and quick dessert is ready.
You will need:
- 300 g of wheat flour;
- 1 egg;
- 150 g butter;
- 200 g of dried fruits (raisins, dried apricots, pitted prunes);
- 50 ml of milk;
- a pinch of salt.
Some dried fruits can be replaced with chopped nuts - almonds, cashews or hazelnuts.
Mix flour with salt, add grated butter. Grind the mixture to make a coarse crumb. Add egg and milk, stir the dough. Rinse dried fruits and grind in a blender. Add the fruit mixture to the dough, knead everything until smooth.
Roll the dough into a sausage and wrap in plastic wrap. Place it in the freezer for an hour. Then unfold the sausage and cut it into even circles. Place the cookies on a baking sheet lined with baking paper and place in an oven preheated to 180 ° C. Cook the dessert for 10-15 minutes. Chill baked goods and serve with tea.
Finished biscuits can be glazed. Melt the sugar-free dark chocolate and apply it to the surface of the products.
Oatmeal cookies with dates and nuts
Try this delicate crunchy date cookie. The dessert prepared according to this recipe has a rich sweet taste and is perfect for breakfast or evening tea.
You will need:
- 1 glass of dates;
- 0.5 cups of shelled walnuts;
- 500 g of oatmeal;
- 0.5 cups of water;
- 0.5 cups odorless vegetable oil;
- 0.25 teaspoon of baking soda;
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice;
- a pinch of vanillin.
Lemon juice can be substituted with a pinch of citric acid.
Soak dried dates in warm water for half an hour. Then remove the seeds from the fruit, chop the pulp finely. Fry the peeled walnuts in a dry frying pan and chop coarsely. Mix nuts with dates, add oatmeal and stir.
Pour warm water into the mixture, add vanillin and soda, slaked with lemon juice. Mix thoroughly until smooth. Preheat oven to 180C. On a baking sheet lined with baking paper, spread small portions of the dough, forming them into small cakes. Place the baking sheet in the oven and bake the cookies until golden brown. Remove from baking sheet, chill and serve.
