Barrel Bites, the portable "cookie"
Barrel Bites
For when it’s the bottom of the barrel in your kitchen.
Ratio:
+ 1 Cup Shredded (carrot, parsnip, peeled sweet potato, apple)
+ 1 Cup Large Chunks (crushed nuts, dried fruit)
+ ½ Cup Small Chunks (seeds, dried fruit, chocolate bits, soaked sweet mushrooms)
+ ½ Cup Fine Bits (shredded coconut, almond flour, acorn flour)
+ ¼ Cup Dry Sweetener (granular monkfruit, sugar, erythritol, stevia)
+ ½ Cup Binding Flour (oats, ground flaxseed, all purpose flour)
+ 2 Tbsp Assorted Spices (cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, spicebush, prickly ash, ginger, zest)
+ 1 Tsp Baking Powder
Binder - Choose One:
+ 1 Tbsp Psyllium Husk + 4 Tbsp Water mixed, 1 Egg
+ 3 Tbsp Psyllium Husk + ½ C Water mixed, + ½-1 C Water
+ 2 Eggs
Directions:
Mix, adding liquid as needed for mixture to be sticky enough to hold whatever shape you make. If it’s runny, add more “Fine Bits”, “Flour”, or a dry “Sweetener”.
Typically makes one sheet pan of 18 small mounds.
Bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes. Let them fully cool before eating.
Tell us what combinations you’ve tried!