Ingredients

The following ingredients have 6 Servings
  • 1/2 cup almond flour (Both blanched as well as natural flour work. )
  • 1.5 Tbsp coconut flour
  • 3 Tbsp finely ground raw sugar (or other fine vegan sugar)
  • a generous pinch of salt
  • 1/4 tsp cardamon powder
  • 8 saffron strands
  • 1 tsp almond milk (or other non dairy milk)
  • 1.5 Tbsp maple syrup (or any other sweet syrup with similar consistency like agave, jaggery syrup. sugar syrup)

Instruction

  • Heat the almond milk. Mix the saffron strands in it and let sit for 5 minutes.
  • In a bowl, mix the almond flour, coconut flour, sugar, salt and cardamom powder.
  • Add the saffron almond milk and maple syrup (or jaggery/sugar/date syrup) and mix well to make a soft dough. If the mixture is not a soft sticky mix, add in 1 teaspoons or more maple syrup. Make flat discs of the dough and serve as is, or bake at 300 degrees F / 150ºc for 9 minutes. (the pedas will expand a bit while baking). Top with some chopped pistachios or almond slivers and press in
  • Cool completely before serving or storing. Store in the refrigerator in airtight container for upto a week. the baked pedas are are soft Fudgy cookies. They taste best chilled.