Heart-Shaped Valentine
Cookies
1 large ripe pear,
chopped in large pieces
1 cup walnuts, soaked
overnight
1 cup pecans, soaked
overnight
1 cup dried cherries,
soaked 1 hour
¼ cup maple syrup
1 teaspoon almond extract
½ teaspoon powdered stevia*
1 heart-shaped cookie
cutter (open mold)
Place the pear, walnuts,
pecans, maple syrup, almond extract and
stevia in a food processor and blend to homogenize the batter so that it is
completely smooth. Add in the cherries and pulse until they are chopped
into smaller pieces.
Take heart shaped cookie cutter
(with a hollow center) and
place on solid dehydrator sheet and fill with batter. Carefully remove the
cookie cutter so heart shape stays intact. Repeat process until all the batter
is used up.
Dehydrate for 6 hours. Flip
and dehydrate for another 6 hours or until right consistency.
Makes 10-12 cookies
depending on the size of the cookie cutter.
* Every brand of stevia has a
different level of sweetness so you will need to test it first to
really know how much to add. When you have the correct proportion
you should not be able to taste the stevia, it should just
increase the sweetness of other sweeteners so you don't have to
add as much of them.
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