Huge pot of turkey stock on the boil #gaps

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Last of the turkey leftovers - with roasted squash, onion, raisins and coriander. #gaps

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Easy dinner - turkey leftovers with roasted beets, carrots, leeks and garlic. #gaps

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Home-made sugar-free cranberry sauce #gaps

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Yay - my grain-free, sugar-free pudding came out of the mould perfectly!! Now it's Christmas!! #gaps

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Last-minute Christmas pudding. It's never too late!! #gaps #scd

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Ginger Christmas-Tree Cookies

Christmas baking has started already! I had great fun making these even though I don't have a proper Christmas-tree cookie cutter. I found an old plastic tree decoration which came in two halves, so I used one half as my cookie cutter. It was a bit more fiddly that using a proper cutter but the results were great! I love anything with ginger in it and the kids love cookies so these are a big hit with everyone in the house. Happy Christmas everyone!

Ingredients:

120g Butter, melted

1 teaspoon water

1 egg

75g Honey

330g Ground Almonds

3-4 teaspoons Ground Ginger

1 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon

1 teaspoon Allspice

½ teaspoon Ground Cloves

½ to 1 teaspoon of freshly peeled and grated root ginger (optional)

1 teaspoon Baking Soda

1. Turn your oven on to 170 degrees C, or gas mark 3. Line two cookie sheets or oven trays with parchment or greaseproof paper.

2. Put all the ingredients into a large bowl and mix well. You don’t need a food processor or hand mixer to do this, it will come together easily with a large spoon.

3. The dough will look quite wet but as you work with it, it becomes shiny and manageable. Dough made with ground almonds is quite sticky though, so when you’re working with it, roll it out between two sheets of parchment or greaseproof paper. To make your Christmas trees, roll out the dough to a thickness of 5mm. Use a cookie cutter and carefully lift the cookies and lay them on your lined trays.

4. If you don’t have a cookie cutter, you can simply form small balls of dough in your hand and flatten them on to the oven tray to make round cookies.

5. Bake for 15 minutes until the edges are turning golden brown.

6. Cool on a wire tray. Store in an airtight container. This recipe makes about 25-30 trees!

Steak sandwich for lunch with some home-made chutney. #gaps #scd

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