Sweet! Gluten free! Vegan! Hell yeah!
For Christmas one year, I happened to get a really cool book: The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen by Sean Sherman and Beth Dooley. Truth be told, I love collecting recipe books, even if a lot of the meals are things that I don't have access to the ingredients for, because they tell such interesting stories and share so many interesting ideas from the people who wrote them. I'd never seen a cookbook centered on Native American food before, and so when I got this and leafed through it, I had a blast looking at all the interesting recipes of these lands before any boats ever hit the shores around Plymouth Rock.
One thing that stuck out to me as I flipped around, though, was the fact that one could actually use acorns to make flour. They had a whole step by step guide on it in the book. I did not know you could do that. I tried it myself, and I did not do it right (I needed to boil them more to get more of the bitter tannins out, but I got impatient!) but I did, in the middle of that process, learn a tasty cookie recipe that came out of this book—and that's what we have today. Based on their Autumn Harvest Cookies, I've got these golden bits of goodness for you here: Almond Honey Harvest Cookies, with almond, corn, honey, vanilla, and banana as the main magical items.
Magic in Almond Honey Harvest Cookies
Now, maybe people aren't really harvesting things like bananas right now, but the almond and corn in here, two things all about sunshine and abundance, certainly do make for a pretty addition to any harvest-themed table. Throw some deep, rich, golden honey in there, along with vanilla, and what you have is something sweet, aromatic, and looking as round and gold as a coin. As such, these things could easily be like sweet doubloons for doing any money magic—but they could also take it a step further, given how things like almonds and vanilla are good for mental power, and how honey and corn, more than just money-attracting, are all about luck, love, and optimism, too.
With a full spread of elemental influences, and a heavy focus on Venus, Mercury, and the Sun, these cookies not only make for a perfect, sweet, and quick treat, but also one that can help you remember the beautiful side of life. When things are hard and it’s difficult to focus on what you’re trying to accomplish, let these little sweets help you recenter, sharpen your mind, double down on your goals, and commit to seeing all the places things can go right instead of wrong.
Almond Honey Harvest Cookies
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 15 minutes
Makes 9-12 cookies
Ingredients:
1/2 cup (120g) almond flour
1/2 cup (120g) corn meal
4 Tbsp (60g) honey
2 Tbsp (30g) canola oil
1 Tbsp vanilla extract
1 ripe banana
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Mash your banana until smooth.
Add honey, vanilla, and canola oil and mix well.
Add your flours and mash together until all the flour is hydrated.
Roll the mixture into little balls, then place on a parchment lined baking sheet.
Lightly press the balls into flat puck shapes (or thinner if desired).
Bake for 15min, or until the edges are crispy.
Tips:
Use a neutral nut butter like cashew, almond, etc. to hold them together better
Flatter cookies are crispier; thicker cookies become like sweet cakes!
These almost remind me of energy bites, with the texture (as I made mine pretty thick). Something between energy bites and corn bread. But they're gluten free and vegan, making them easy to share (granted no one has a nut allergy), and they are so very tasty and filling when you want something quick to put in your stomach—maybe before a big project or an outing. Try them out! ♥
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Sara Raztresen is a Slovene-American writer, screenwriter, and Christian witch. Her fantasy works draw heavily on the wisdom she gathers from her own personal and spiritual experience, and her spiritual practice borrows much of the whimsy and wonder that modern society has relegated to fairy-and-folktale. Her goal is to help people regain their spiritual footing and discover God through a new (yet old) lens of mysticism.
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