Gluten Free Cinnamon Toast Crunch Wannabes

I've been wanting to try this recipe for some time and finally got around to it this past weekend. The recipe originated from this website blog: I Breathe I'm Hungry. I gathered the necessary ingredients. Milled flax seed, coconut oil, hemp seed, ground cinnamon, and apple juice.

Uh oh, I did not have any apple juice on hand. What to do?

Well, I had a bunch of apples from our apple tree that were bruised and going soft. Here they are. Rather nasty looking, huh? I wondered, would it be possible to squeeze my own apple juice? All I needed was a half a cup.

I really didn't have anything to lose as we had so many apples that these were going bad. So I cut them all up and threw the in my Ninja food processor to juice them up.

Well that didn't work like I had hoped. I was hoping they would be all juicy like the tomatoes, onions and peppers for my fresh salsa. See Easy Fresh Salsa. I decided to try and squeeze the juice out. Since the food processor didn't work, the next thing I thought of trying was the garlic press.

Oh my. It's gonna take a lot more than that to reach a half a cup. Let's try heating the apples in a saucepan. Add about a half cup water and turn on the heat.

Now that's much better. Next I used the spoon to remove the juice for that half a cup I needed.

I suppose I could have used a strainer, but a little apple didn't hurt anything. With a little cinnamon and sugar I used the remaining apples for applesauce.

I filled my measuring cup halfway with apple juice and added a tablespoon of coconut oil to the hot juice to melt for easy mixing.

I measured out the remaining ingredients and mixed them up.

Then I added the juice to the dry ingredients.

And thoroughly mixed all the ingredients together.

I placed a piece of freezer paper on top of a cookie sheet and scaped the dough onto the freezer paper.

Then I rolled the dough out as thin as I could, which was about 1/8" thick rather than the required 1/16" thick. I found that it started to fall apart if I went any thinner. Maybe my dough was a bit too wet because it seemed to stick to the rolling pin.

Once I rolled as thin as I possibly could I placed it in my preheated oven to bake at 300 degrees for the required 15 minutes.

When the 15 minutes were up, I removed the pan to slice the dough into small squares and returned it to the oven. I shut the oven off and left it continue to bake for an additional 60 minutes. When I pulled it out, it was still a bit moist so I turned it over and placed it back in the oven. I heated the oven to 200 degrees and then turned it off and left it in for 15 more minutes. Then I removed the pan and broke them along the cut lines into these cute little squared cereal wannabes.

How did they taste? I thought they were delicious! But then, I am used to eating a lot of flax seed and hemp seed. And I absolutely love hemp seed! My son and daughter-in-law happened to be here and I had them taste it. They said it tasted too healthy! Haha! Now that's a given!

Gluten Free Cinnamon Toast Crunch Wannabes

1/2 c. milled flax seed

1/2 c. hulled hemp seed

2 T. ground cinnamon

1/2 c. apple juice

1 T. coconut oil

Measure out and combine dry ingredients together in a bowl. Measure out apple juice and coconut oil and add to dry ingredients. Mix thoroughly. Line a cookie sheet with freezer paper and place dough onto paper. Roll dough out to 1/8" thick. Place in preheated 300 degree oven and bake for 15 minutes. Remove pan and score dough into small, bite-sized squares. Turn off oven and return pan to oven for an additional 60 minutes. Remove pan, flip dough over and again return to oven. Heat oven to 200 degrees and then shut oven off. Leave in for 15 minutes or until dry. Remove and break into squares. Enjoy!


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