Bumblebee (turmeric & charcoal/cacao/carob) Cookies (paleo, AIP)

[Two freewrites for you for this one…may eventually move one to another post, if I get back to the bumblebee theme…]

Black and yellow
Bumblebee jello
Turmeric charcoal
Bumblebee mellow
Yellow and black
Perfectly cracked
Sweet and mesquite
Perfect home treat
Easing and pleasing
Soothing and cooling
Perfectly fueling
Eat these to sleep.

Mr. and Mrs. Bumblebee were at home, having just put the bumblebee babies to sleep.

What should we do now? Asked Mrs. Bumblebee.

Hmm. A free moment. This is strange. Said Mr. Bumblebee.

I’ve a hankering to watch bake off and make up some messes.

That sounds wonderful. Let’s do that.

The young bumblebee couple snuggled up under their wool blanket and watched several episodes of their favorite show. When they were maxed out on watching people make food, they buzzed into their own kitchen and began rummaging in the pantry.

You know, such creativity, said Mrs. Bumblebee. It’s really inspiring.

So no pedestrian chocolate chip cookies then?

Nah, said Mrs. Bumblebee. Not after seeing that fantastic lion bread. And mirror cake, and cookie chandelier.

What did you have in mind, my dear?

Mrs. Bumblebee put her wing to her lip. You know how humans make those holiday cookies, shaped kind of like themselves?

Mr. Bumblebee crinkled his forehead. You mean gingermen?

Gingerpeople! Yes, those. It seems to me that we might do just as well, with a cookie tribute to our species.

All right, I’m in. How can we make them…

It took quite a bit of rummaging, but in the end they found what they needed. Inspired by the French chef they cut blocks and froze them and recut them and baked until finally they had what they wanted.

When they were done, Mrs. Bumblebee beheld the cookies in their image

Perfect. She held one up to the light filtering in from the cloudy windowpanes and watched it sail away into the night sky.

Bumblebee (turmeric & charcoal/cacao/carob) Cookies (paleo, AIP)

 

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Prep time

1 hour

Cook time

20 mins

Total time

1 hour 20 mins

 

First had a yellow and black turmeric-cacao cookie in Tokyo and been on my list ever since...+ checkerboard cookies on bakeoff and I present to you yellow and black checkerboard cookies - black can be cacao, charcoal, or carob depending on your preference (not a big fan of baking with/eating charcoal except in case of food poisoning, but for one time coloring use it's prob okay, otherwise carob (for AIP) or cacao/cocoa (paleo) should do fine (might be a bit less black, carob prob darker than cocoa). The cookie base is modified from my shortbread recipes (so don't worry, they mostly just taste like buttery shortbread ;).

Author: Julie Hunter

Recipe type: Paleo, Autoimmune Protocol, V-modifiable

Cuisine: Dessert, Treat

Serves: ~20 cookies

Ingredients

• Black Cookie
• ⅔ cup cassava flour
• ⅓ cup tapioca flour or arrowroot starch
• ¼ tsp sea salt
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon (optional)
• 2 tsps food grade activated charcoal, or 2 tb carob, cacao(non-AIP), or cocoa powder (non-AIP)
• ½ cup grassfed butter (non-AIP), ghee (AIP re-intro) or coconut oil (AIP/V)
• 2-4 tb honey (adjust to taste) (maple syrup for V)
• enough water to bring together (start with 2 tb)
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• Yellow Cookie
• ⅔ cup cassava flour
• ⅓ cup tapioca flour or arrowroot starch
• 2 tsps ground turmeric
• ¼ tsp sea salt
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon (optional)
• ½ cup grassfed butter (non-AIP), ghee (AIP re-intro) or coconut oil (AIP/V)
• 2-4 tb honey (adjust to taste) (maple syrup for V)
• enough water to bring together (start with 2 tb)

Instructions

1. Make the two different cookie mixes by mixing each ingredient list together in separate bowls (whisk the dry ingredients together then add the fat (can be melted/liquid) and sweetener).
2. Once mixtures are well-mixed, add water to bring the dough together into a pliable ball.
3. Form into a rectangular log or sheet and wrap in plastic wrap or parchment paper. Leave in freezer for 30 minutes to harden.
4. Now, I read a whole bunch of written instructions for how to do the checkerboard and found them impossible to get, much easier to just watch a video. I used the method shown here, but actually I think it would be easier just to form the dough into a rectangular sheet and cut 9 equal sized strips that you then lay next to each other with the alternating colors 3-across, and then 3-up. Then I would freeze the block for another twenty or so and then cut the cookie shapes.
5. Once the cookie shapes are ready and laid out on a parchment-lined baking sheet, bake at 375 degrees Fahrenheit for approximately 20 minutes, or until cookies have hardened and are just starting to brown.
6. Remove from oven and allow to cool before serving to all your bumblebee friends.

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Pre-baking

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