Recipe: Lemon Fig Cookies

We’re on day 20 of our 30 Day Health Challenge and I just couldn’t help it…I needed a dessert.  And not just a something sweet so I’ll grab a banana or have sweet potato for dinner.  I needed something resemblance of some kind of dessert.  So I stretched the Challenge a little and came up with a quick 4 ingredient, cleansing, satisfying “cookie”.  I found that if you call it a cooke, it satisfies even more.  I mean, who wants to eat something called a “Cleansing Fruit Fat Disc”?

I literally jumped off the couch and made these in 5 minutes.  It took me more time to take 3 pictures of the things than it did to make them.  Again…not a food photographer here…it’s on the list to sharpen (who are we kidding, develop) my photo/staging skills.  Right now my focus is solely getting through the 30 Day Health Challenge and bringing you real recipes.

What you need:

About 8 large-ish dried figs (any kind will due, I used black mission figs for these)

.5 cup cashews or macadamia nuts (or even better a combo of both)

.5 cup shredded coconut, unsweetened of course

juice from half a small lemon

If your figs are especially dry you may need to add a couple drops of water until desired consistency.  Or if you’re not as impatient as me, you can soak the figs for about 10-15 minutes prior and drain liquid.

Process all in mini food processor until crumbly texture.  Form into balls or cookies or bars.  Cookies are the most fun! Made 8 cookies.  I refrigerated them all of 5 minutes just to form up a bit, formed into cookies and we promptly ate them all.  Sweet tooth-1, Shannon-0

But, c’mon, these were no cheat.  Cleansing antioxidant properties of the fresh lemon juice, cleansing fiber rich figs, super healthy fats of the macadamias and coconut which helped to stave off a blood sugar spike from the figs.  These were clearly health food.  No guilt here…enjoy!