Valentine's Day Pomegranate Cookies

Health Highlights

Yes we must needs make heart-shaped, sparkly red cookie-biscuits on this day, indeeds we must. (And so crunchy and toothsome they are too.)

Ingredients

3/4 cup	Tigernut flour
1 cup	Cassava flour
1/2 tsp	Sea Salt
3/4 tsp	Baking soda
2 tsp	Gelatin dry powder, unsweetened (or sub agar agar)
3/4 cup	Ghee (or coconut oil)
1 tbsp	Vanilla extract, pure
1/4 cup	Honey (or maple syrup (to taste))
2 tsp	Apple cider vinegar
1/2 cup	Coconut oil ((slightly softened, but not liquid))
1/2 cup	Coconut cream ((slightly softened; but not liquid) or solid; scooped from chilled can))
2 tsp	Vanilla extract, pure
1/2 cup	Tapioca starch (or arrowroot starch (add more if icing seems too liquid))
1/4 cup	Honey (or maple syrup)
1/2 cup	Pomegranate (seeds for decorating)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit
Mix cookie ingredients together, in order listed.
Roll out on floured parchment paper to about ¼ inch thickness. Cut out heart shapes and place on parchment-lined baking tray.
Bake for about 10-12 minutes, until cookies have browned.
While cookies are baking, beat icing ingredients together with electric mixer until icing forms. Taste and adjust sweetener/flavoring as needed.
Once cookies have cooled, ice and decorate with pomegranate seeds.

Calories 229

Calories from fat 154

Calories from saturated fat 103

Total Fat 17.1 g

Saturated Fat 11.4 g

Trans Fat 0.0 g

Polyunsaturated Fat 0.5 g

Monounsaturated Fat 2.2 g

Cholesterol 25.6 mg

Sodium 117 mg

Potassium 38 mg

Total Carbohydrate 18.4 g

Dietary Fiber 2.7 g

Sugars 9.1 g

Protein 1.1 g