Gluten Free Currant and Coconut Cookies
These are really delicious, and are so easy to make. They use a combination of besan, or chick pea flour, arrowroot flour and fine yellow cornmeal, sesame seeds and coconut, which makes a very nourishing mix, rich in protein and calcium. Sesame seeds contain good amounts of both calcium and magnesium.
The high protein and calcium content makes these cookies a great addition for school lunches. These bikkies are very high in sugar, though which should be removed from the teeth. So remember to put in that stick of celery in the lunch box, or an apple, or a carrot for the children to eat afterwards.
Check nothing is in the oven. Turn the oven on to 160 C to pre-heat, and grease the oven tray you’re going to use for the cookies.
- Prepare the gluten free flour: Put 100 gm of besan flour or chick pea flour into a bowl. Add 50 gm of arrowroot flour or tapioca flour and 50 gm of fine yellow cornmeal.
- Add 150gm of dessicated coconut to the dry flour mix, 125 gm of currants and two desertspoons of sesame seeds. Lightly mix all these flours, seeds and currants together.
- Place another clean bowl over a saucepan which has boiling water in it. Put three good sized eggs into the bowl with 300 gms of caster sugar, and beat up with a whisk until the eggs and sugar have frothed up a little.
- Remove the bowl from the hot water and continue to beat the eggs for about three minutes more.
- Carefully fold the dry flour mix into the egg and sugar.
- Using a teaspoon, drop dollops of the cookie mixture onto a greased oven tray. These cookies will spread out, so leave room for spreading between each cookie.
Bake for about 20 minutes, checking that they do not burn. All ovens are a bit different, so check the temperature and moderate the heat if necessary. Turn off the oven when the cookies begin to brown, which should be after 20 minutes or so, and leave in the cooling oven for five more minutes to set.
Run a sharp knife underneath the cookies while they are still warm. Put onto a cooling tray for the children to see when they come home from school.
