Apple Brown Butter Bay Leaf Spice Cookies
These cookies smell of wintertime and the holidays with their aromatic spices. Baked apple chips can be found at health food stores and upscale grocery stores like Whole Foods. Don’t be put off by the list of ingredients. It’s a fairly straightforward recipe, and if you don’t have some of the spices, just substitute other spices like cloves, allspice, cardamom or whatever you have on hand. As with all “gluten free ratio rally” recipes, feel free to substitute whatever flour you want. I just used the ones that I thought would compliment the apple spice flavor.
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
Counts 14 of 17 ingredients — the other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 14 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Rice | 1 cup cooked (158g) white | 206 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Apple Juice | 1 medium (182g) | 95 |
| Apple | 1 medium (182g) | 95 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Nutmeg | 1 tsp ground (2.2g) | 12 |
| Vanilla | 1 tsp extract (4ml) | 12 |
| Cinnamon | 1 tsp ground (2.6g) | 6 |
| Black Pepper | 1 tsp ground (2.3g) | 6 |
| Bay Leaf | 1 leaf (0.6g) | 2 |
| Ginger | 1 tsp grated fresh (2g) | 2 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Teff | not in our table | 0 |
| Buckwheat | not in our table | 0 |
| Millet | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups apple juice
- 60 g (1 cup) baked apple chips, crushed to 1/4 inch pieces
- 1 tablespoon ground flax meal
- 140 g (1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons) unsalted butter
- 3 fresh bay leaves
- 100 g (1/2 cup + 3 tablespoons) sweet rice flour
- 50 g (1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons) tapioca flour (sometimes called tapioca starch)
- 50 g (1/4 cup + 1 tablespoon) teff flour
- 20 g (2 tablespoons) buckwheat flour
- 20 g (2 tablespoons) millet flour
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 3/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
- 140 g (1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons) dark brown sugar
- 150 g (3/4 cup) granulated white sugar, divided
- 1 large egg
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract