obese dinosaur cookies (wheat-free)

We shamelessly ripped this sugar cookie recipe from AllRecipes.com and adapted it to make it more exciting and more Maisha-friendly. We substituted spelt flour and tapioca flour for wheat flour and added spices to jazz it up.



Ingredients

• 2 cups whole spelt flour
• 3/4 cups tapioca flour
  
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp fresh-ground cardamom
  
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 1/2 cups white sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

1. Mix dry, mix wet, mix together
2. Roll out dough on (spelt) floured surface about 1/4 inch thick
   
3. Do the cookie cutter thing (we used a stegosaurus and a triceratops)
   
4. Bake for 8 minutes on a greased sheet at 375° F
5. When they're done cooling, EAT THEM!

Reflections

We figured out what killed the dinosaurs: too much sugar and butter! It was extinction by obesity! They were delicious but ambiguously shaped. We noticed that the cookies with more flour (at the end of the batch) poofed up less; we think adding more flour might have improved their baked form.