RAW Blood Orange and Walnut Biscuits

This recipe was to put to use the stockpile of dried blood orange chips I have been making.
To make, simply:

• Cut oranges into 2-4mm rounds
• Dehydrate at 45C until fully dried.

You know they are done when you try to bend them and they crack apart.

You are left with intensely flavoured sweet treats that pack the punch of orange rind and an intensified orange sweetness. You don't need blood oranges, they just look more dramatic dried in a ruby hue. Best of all they store indefinitely.

These biscuits were a vehicle to use some of that great citrus candy. Wait for these to dry right out, because rather than the usual chewy biscuit, you end up with a beautiful dry crumb from the almond meal. If you made them really thin and substituted flaked coconut they would make a great wafer.

COMBINE

• 3/4 cup finely chopped DRIED DATES
• 1/2 cup just boiled WATER

Let the two emulsify into a sticky sweet goo.

COMBINE

• 1/4 cup chopped DRIED BLOOD ORANGE
• 1/2 cup roughly chopped WALNUTS
• 1/2 cup ground RAW ALMONDS/ALMOND MEAL
• 1/4 cup CHIA SEEDS
• 2/3 cup desicated COCONUT
• 1 tspn CINNAMON
• ZEST and JUICE of one BLOOD ORANGE

Pour in the date mix, combine until sticky dough forms. Add some agave syrup at this point if they need a little sweetness.
Shape into biscuits 1/2cm thick and dehydrate until dried through (be patient!).

They are really delicious and will store for ages.