Who doesn’t like dunking rusks in a cup o’ tea or coffee (black with no sugar)? if you look at the store bought brands, you are most definitely ingesting loads of unnecessary sugar, white flour which is chemically bleached, disgusting synthetic oil and so on! Not worth it! So tasty, so toxic!

Here is my solution.. a small amount of effort for a wholesome, guilt free reward.

You will need:

WET ingredients to blend together:

3 free range eggs. Go chase down a chicken!

1/2 cup of coconut oil, melted. I like lemcke, or quinns.

1 whole vanilla pod (scrape out the inside)

1 tbsp. apple cider vinegar

1 can full cream coconut cream (watch out for bleaching agents, read your label)

1/2 Cup raw honey or 2 cups puree’d dates if you prefer vegan option.

2 tbsp nut butter or sugar free peanut butter (like natures choice or black cat with the yellow lid)

1 cup puree’d dates. Or leave them chopped up if your family like chewy bits. I love it but my family pull them out so I sneaky sneaky them in.

DRY ingredients:

4 cups Eureka rye flour

1 cup coconut flour

2tbsp psyllium husks

1/2 cup of desiccated coconut (poor coconut)

1 tbsp ground cinnamon

1 tbsp bicarbonate of soda

1/2 tbsp baking powder

Optional additions:

1 cup chopped dried Cranberries

1 cup crushed unsalted raw almonds/cashews

1 cup of raw oats

How to:

• Heat oven to 180 degrees, or in our case with the coal stove just wait till you can feel your eyebrows sizzle.
• Blend all the wet ingredients until nice and fluffy
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• Sift all the dry ingredients together in a separate bowl and add the wet ingredients to this mix.
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• add your additional ingredients like the cranberries, almonds and oats.
•  get a semi nude lil minion to help you mix and taste test!
• Mix well. Add a bit of water or coconut milk if you see it is too dry!
• tip over onto 2 separate  baking trays, flatten out the mixture until the entire oven tray is covered.
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• Bake for 30-40 minutes or until nice and brown (keep checking, sometimes it goes faster!), take trays out and allow to cool for a few minutes. In the meantime turn your oven down to 80 degrees. I have to wait until the coals die out hahaha.
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• Cut the rusks into desired sizes, I aim for around matchbox size. Cute!
• Put the trays back in the oven when your oven has cooled down to 80 degrees, and dry them out for around 4 hours. You will know when they are ready because they feel ‘rusky’ haha. This is not a scientific term. They will be dry and crunchy! Not biscuit like!
• I like to take mine out of the oven and flip them over half way through, so all sides get an even tanning session.

Once crunchy, remove from oven and allow to cool! I store mine on the kitchen table in a cookie jar. Dangerous but at least I know when the kids (or husband) get caught with hand in the cookie jar its all good stuff going in!

Eat 2. Not  hourly, a few times a week!

Dunkin delicious

Live wholesome!