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This video will show you how to make a raw pumpkin-shaped cookie, complete with orange and green icing. You can then use the recipe below to get creative and make other shapes and colours, including ghosts and bats.
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Raw Halloween Cookies
Nutrition (For one serving)
Calories: 6030kcalCarbohydrates: 491gProtein: 127gFat: 412gSaturated Fat: 94gSodium: 283mgPotassium: 7809mgFiber: 143gSugar: 129gVitamin A: 28353IUVitamin C: 23mgCalcium: 664mgIron: 37mg
Ingredients
Cookie biscuit
- 1 cup walnuts soak for 4 hours, then dehydrate
- 1 cup pecans soak for 4 hours, then dehydrate
- 1 cup Brazil nuts
- 1 cup raw oats
- 15 soft apricots dried, soaked 2 hrs+ and diced
- 3/4 cup lucuma
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 1 pinch salt
- 2 tsp mixed spice or pumpkin spice
Green icing
- 1/2 cup cacao butter chopped, melted
- 1 cup cashews
- 1/2 cup spinach juice
- 2 tbsp xylitol
- 1 pinch salt
Orange icing
- 1/2 cup cacao butter chopped, melted
- 1 cup cashews
- 1/2 cup carrot juice
- 2 tbsp xylitol
- 1 pinch salt
Instructions
- Grind the nuts from the cookie biscuit ingredients in a food processor until a flour forms.
- Blend the oats into a flour in a high-speed blender.
- With the ground nuts in the processor, add the oat flour and start to process again, adding a few apricots at a time until the mixture binds together. If it’s not binding, you can add some of the apricot soak water too.
- Roll out the mixture on a flat surface to the desired thickness. If mixture sticks, mill some more oats to dust the rolling pin and rolling surface with.
- Using a cookie cutter, cut the cookies from the rolled-out dough.
- You will need to re-form and re-roll the leftover dough to get the most from it.
- Dehydrate cookies on a mesh sheet for 10 to 12 hours at 115 degrees F.
- Blend the green and orange icing ingredients separately in a Vitamix or other high-speed blender until smooth. Do not include the cacao butter yet.
- Add the cacao butter and blend again just long enough to mix it in.
- Transfer mixture to a piping bag and leave in the fridge long enough for it to set a little.
- Decorate the cookies.
- Place cookies in the fridge to let the icing set.
Video
Notes
Mixed spice varies, depending on country and brand. If you have pumpkin spice, use that. Or you can use the following recipe to make your own mixed spice:
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground coriander
- 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
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Hi Russell. Is there any way to omit oats. I really don’t want to include them in my raw recipes.
Yes, you could use a different type of flour. Coconut would work, but would risk going rancid with the heat. Or maybe try ground almonds.
Hi, i was wondering if you have a recipe similar to this, but that would taste like a sugar/shortbread cut-out cookie? 🙂
Hey Kellie, I think we have some recipes like that planned for our new Desserts online course.
Hi, Russell. I really enjoy with your videos a lot, thanks for your great recipes!!!! Does your 9-cup Cuisinart work fine with 230 v @50 Hz? I have one from EEUU and I have to buy a 1000W transformer to use it in Spain.
Cheers!!
Hmm, I have no idea, Victoria, that’s a little outside the area of my expertise 🙂
Maybe check with a local electrician.
My boys gave these cookies a 10/10! Doesn’t get any better than that! Thanks for a great recipe.
Woot woot!
I really enjoy your creativity and wonderful recipes.
I do want to give the feedback that I do find the background music quite distracting and hope it is not used in future videos. I really appreciate your demos. You have an incredible talent.
Hi Dee, thanks for the feedback and posting it in such a thoughtful way.
Oh Gosh, I am so sorry, I see the recipe for the “frosting” I am SO embarassed …DUH!!! THANKX friend.
🙂
Thanks for this post, really enjoyed it very much, I am confused as how you made the “frosting” what were the ingredients? Thanks very much and Happy Halloween:)
Can you totally omit the lucuma?
Thank you!
You can, yes. You might need to add a little extra sweetener though.
Recipe sounds really good but can you lose that annoying background music!
You dont mention carrot in your recipe section. How much and is it in juice form instead of the water? Thanks.
It was instead of the water, yes. I just changed it, but not in time for you to see it 🙂
I too would like to know what I could substitute for lacuma. Love your videos. Thank you Russell x
Lucuma is a unique taste, but mesquite powder would work well in this recipe.
You have mentioned before,on other videos, that you soak and dehydrate nuts,but you never say how long to dehydrate them. I’m new to “Raw” and I need to know –if I want to soak nuts, and keep them ,say, in a lunch box–If I dehydrate them, will they keep ,or do I need to refrigerate them?
Dehydrate them for around 8 to 10 hours, until they are completely dry. They will keep OK for a day in a lunch box, but outside of them, keep them refrigerated.
How creative…thank you so much! Always enjoy your videos 🙂
Thanks, Christine.
What is the carrot juice measurement for the orange icing?
Hi Janice, I’ve added it in there now 🙂 1/2 cup.
Hi Russell~yummy~they sound and look good. On my quest for raw good wholesome foods i would prefer a sweetener substitute for xylitol though~just a personal preference really, maybe even organic sugar or stevia~as these are foods in my book~I love receiving these vids, Thanks Russell,
Cheers,
Oya
Hi Oya, sweeteners and sugars seem to be the most emotive and personal choices at the moment, so feel free to substitute whatever is your preferred choice.
I always watch your videos with a smile on my face – thinking ‘what a nice boy’!
Thank you Russell
Ha, thanks!
Thanks Russell – my daughter has been bugging me for hallowe’en cookies for 2 weeks!! problem is mom is diabetic. can i substitute something for the sweetness of the lucuma – also have some budget constraints. Thanks, … very intuitive of you to run this idea; just great; i suspect because of the hurricane in eastern US & Canada there may be a few more moms out there doing hallowe’en at home this year!! Fabulous ideas; just keep them coming!! Cheers!!
what is lucuma? never heard of it……thanks for these great recipes….
Hi Linda, lucuma is a fruit that is dried and made into a powder. It’s sweet and is great in cookies and smoothies. You can get it online if not in your local health food shop.