I’m taking full opportunity of this brief season of flowering weeds. Weeds worth foraging means cooking up. This time it was dandelions in yellow flower form - pre wish making mode.
What to do: Get a bucket and get your little ones to go run after all the yellow dandelions to be found! ...Well not all...save a lot for the bees, please! But gather enough! Enough for this recipe will be about 30 flower heads.
Once you gather them, bring them inside and get cooking!
Ingredients:
* 2 1/4 cups almond flour
* 1 egg
* 1/4 cup melted butter
* 1/4 tsp baking powder
* 1 TBSP + splash of lemon juice. Add some lemon zest too!
* Pinch of salt
* Maple Syrup to sweeten—-use however little or much you want. I eyeballed this as usual.
* Flower petals
Directions:
* First, extract the petals from the bud and toss in your mixing bowl. (All parts of flower are edible so don’t fret on making it perfect)
* Add all other ingredients to flower petals and mix
* The batter yields about 12 cookies. Place on cookie trays and bake at 350F for 10-12 mins.
THEY TASTE AMAZING!!!
About the benefits of Danelions:
Dandelions are an excellent source of Iron, Calcium, and Fiber. Also, they contain vitamins A, C, K, and B2. They promote healthy liver function and detox. Excellent for eye health, dandelions are also good as a diuretic.
We will make a tea next!! Enjoy your cookies!! I noted earlier the entire plant all the way down to the root is edible....my daughter ate 6 raw dandelion stems. Whoa. Haha! She thought they were delicious but then when she licked the bowl she was like a rabid wolf attacking every little sliver of batter left. Yum yum YUMMM!! Enjoy y’all!
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