GP’s Lalo Cookies

Yep, another Gwyneth Paltrow recipe. I can’t help myself!!!! I love her recipes and ingredients so much!!! Plus if I eat like her, I will look like her, right? These cookies are the bomb (yep, used that word, say what 2003). They are dense, sweet, healthy, and hit-the-spot. They are more like a granola bar than a cookie. But healthy snack trumps oreos anyday.

Ingredients:

* 4 cups of barley flour (I used spelt flour)

* 3 cups raw whole almonds

* 1 teaspoon salt

* 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

* 1 cup canola oil

* 1 cup maple syrup

* some jam

Directions:

* Preheat the oven to 350°F.

* In a vitamix, pulse the almonds 10 times (2 second pulses each).

Nutz.

Thank the lord for vitamix.

Pulse. (Don’t blend too much or you will make almond butter versus almond flour).

* Combine all of the ingredients, except the jam, in a large bowl with a wooden spoon.

Dry ingredients first.

Mix with wooden spoon.

Delicious batter.

* Form into rounded tablespoon-sized balls and space them evenly on baking sheets lined with parchment.

Tablespoon balls.

Dots on a pan.

* Use your index finger or the end of a wooden spoon to make an indentation and fill each cookie with a small amount of jam. Bake until cookies are evenly browned, about 20 minutes.

Volcano.

With jam filled centers.

Thumbprint cookies (I used blueberry jam and lingonberry jam).

in oven (ghetto oven).

So good! (and “so healthy,” says Ken).

The kids love them, too.

So friends, eat these, and we will all become besties with GP. They also have another perk — they are vegan and gluten free! Great for all the people with food allergies. Except for those people allergic to nuts….sooo…..Happy weekend!