This recipe was created by Vegan Chef Day.

Prep time - 15 minutes

Cook time - 25-35 minutes

Difficulty - Easy

Serves / makes - 10-16 cookies

Ingredients

200ml plant milk

A small pinch of saffron or 1t cinnamon

200g ground almonds

200g gram flour (or plain gluten flour but you may need to adjust the liquid content, see tips)

200g soft brown sugar

1-2 oranges (I used blood oranges but you can use regular oranges)

Equipment

Saucepan

Large mixing bowl

Mixing spoon

Sharp chefs knife

Chopping board

Baking tray

Baking paper

Method

1. Heat your oven to 180c/360f/GM4.

2. Put the milk and saffron into a saucepan. Gently heat the milk, on a low heat, for 5 minutes, until the milk is infused with the saffron.

3. In a large bowl mix the ground almond, gram flour and sugar. Add the milk, mix with a spoon and set to one side.

4. Cut the oranges into fine slices. You will need one piece for each cookie. If you make the cookies thin you will need two oranges, but if they are thick you may just need one orange.

5. Prepare a baking tray with baking paper. Put spoonfuls of the mixture on the baking tray. Add a slice to each cookie and press it down, so the batter creates a ring around the orange slice.

6. Bake the cookies for 25-35 minutes until they are deep golden brown around the edges. The thicker your cookies are the longer they will need in the oven.

7. Once baked remove from the oven and allow to partly cool before removing them from the baking tray.
   
   

Tips

• If you use a different flour than gram flour you may find that the dough needs more liquid. Flours need different amounts of liquid adding to them depending on what they have been made with. The dough for the cookies can be thick but pourable or it can be thicker, a dough that you can knead. Either of these doughs will result in great cookies. However, if your dough is too wet and doesn’t hold it’s shape on the baking tray you will end up with very thin cookies. If the batter is too dry it will not bind together to enable you to form cookies. If either of these things happen add more wet or dry ingredients to achieve a better dough batter.

• You can swap the oranges for lemon, lime, or even grapefruit slices. If you do this omit the saffron and add a flavour that combines well with the citrus you use.