Recipe: Hemsley & Hemsley Holiday Spiced Ginger Biscuits

These healthy treats are naturally free from gluten, grains and refined sugar… 

Ingredients

• 220g ground almonds
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp allspice
• 3/4 tsp ground ginger
• 1/2 tsp nutmeg
• Pinch of sea salt
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 40g dried cranberries (look for the sugar free, apple-sweetened variety)
• 40g whole pecans, each chopped into four pieces
• 5 tbsp pure maple syrup

Method

1. Preheat oven to 175°C. 
2. Mix ground almonds, spices, sea salt and baking soda. Stir through the cranberries and pecans.
3. Stir in maple syrup.
4. Take 1 ½ tbsp of the mixture and shape into a rough cookie with your hands.
5. Place on baking tray lined with parchment paper, pressing lightly to ½ cm thick. 
6. Repeat leaving plenty of space between biscuits. 
7. Bake for approx. 12 minutes, until browned at the edges but soft in the middle.

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