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Ancient Honey Cakes (Rice Flour Cookies with Nuts or Poppy Seeds)

Total Time
36 min
12m prep · 24m cook
Servings
4 people
Rating
Difficulty
Medium
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🥬 Vegetarian 🥜 Nut-Free ☪️ Halal ✡️ Kosher

In ancient temples, they offered honey cakes to the goddess. I imagine that they were something like this. I adapted the rice flour for modern tastes, although you can try barley flour if desired. These cakes are gluten and sugar free.

Ingredients

  • 0.5 cups butter , softened
  • 0.5 cups honey
  • 2 large eggs , slightly beaten
  • 2 cups rice flour
  • 0.25 teaspoons baking powder
  • 0.25 teaspoons ground cardamom
  • 2 teaspoons hemp seeds

Instructions

  1. 1

    Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a baking sheet.

  2. 2

    Beat butter and honey in a large bowl with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy; add eggs a little at a time, mixing well after each addition. Add rice flour, baking powder, and cardamom to butter mixture; mix until just combined. Roll dough into small balls, about 1 heaping teaspoon each.

  3. 3

    Pour hemp seeds into a small bowl. Press the top half of each dough ball into seeds. Transfer dough balls, seed-side up, to the baking sheet and gently press to 1/4-inch thickness.

  4. 4

    Bake in the preheated oven until edges are golden, about 20 minutes.

Nutrition Facts

Per serving

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