This recipe makes delicious soft almond cookies which are extremely low in sugar.

Ingredients:

1 cup (two sticks) of butter

1 7oz tube of Odense almond paste (rather than marzipan which is too sweet)

¼ cup light brown sugar

1/4 cup white sugar

1 Tsp vanilla (preferably organic)

2 large eggs

2 ¾ cups flour

1/3 Tsp salt

1 Tsp. baking soda

Half a package of Mini Chocolate chips

Wax paper

Instructions:

-Combine first five ingredients together with mixer

-Add eggs to mixture and then beat more  until batter is smooth

-Combine flour , salt and baking soda in a separate bowl and mix well with a fork

-Then combine flour mixture with batter mixture, one third at a time, stirring with mixer.

Form cookie dough into a ball adding more flour if too sticky

Knead mini chips into dough.

Roll out to a half inch thickness on a piece of wax paper.

Cut into shapes and bake on ungreased non- stick cookie sheet

Bake in oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 6 to 8 minutes

Decoration

In keeping with the plan of making these cookies actually healthy, the decorating was done, not with frosting or food color or any artificial additives, but with whipped cream, whipped until it is almost butter, then separated into small cups prior to decorating. Colors were made by adding various spices, cocoa, fruits and berries to the cups.

For example, the snowflake at the top had white plain whipped cream with organic unsweetened coconut flakes sprinkled on top, the drinking horn at the bottom was made gold with turmeric, although saffron can also be used, Ratatoskr, the squirrel was colored brown with a cinnamon- cocoa cream mixture, the  pink color of the Valkyrie’s dress was made with fresh cranberries lightly cooked  with orange juice concentrate added to the cream, the Mjölnir was decorated with mini chocolate chips and raw organic cocoa powder and cream, and the Viking Sword’s handle was decorated with blueberry and blackberry cream and the blood groove was made out of organic orange peel. Altogether the sort of cookies any Viking would be pleased to have.

This last cookie, the sword, was made with a copper cookie cutter custom made for Odinia International by a skillful Heathen craftsman and his son. In fact, the cookie cutters used to make most of these cookies were made by Frank Vinson and can be purchased here.

The Odinist Gourmet

(Sharon Hodder-Fenner)

©2010 Odinia

 

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