Ingredients
- 1 apple washed
- 1 Tbs lemon juice
- 1 cup crunchy peanut butter or other nut or seed butter
- 2 Tbs pure maple syrup
- 2 Tbs gfJules™ Gluten Free All Purpose Flour may need more if nut butter is very runny
- ½ cup gluten-free pretzel sticks I like Glutino®
- ¼ cup raisins or cranberries
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350° F.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
- Slice apples very thinly, leaving the peel on. Place in a bowl filled with cold water and 1 tablespoon lemon juice to keep the apples from browning.
- In a small pot on the stove, warm one cup peanut butter while stirring with a rubber spatula or wooden spoon. When it begins to thin, add pure maple syrup and 2 tablespoons gfJules Gluten Free All Purpose Flour. If the nut butter you’re using is particularly oily or thin, you may need an additional tablespoon of my gfJules Flour to help thicken the mixture.
- Stir in 1/2 cup gluten-free or regular pretzel sticks plus 1/4 cup raisins or cranberries. Drain the apple strips and add last.
- Compact and spoon scoops of the mixture onto the parchment lined baking sheet, forming a teepee shape, if you like.
- If you are serving the dessert with a fork the scoops can be larger. If you are making these for bite size treats spoon small scoops onto the tray instead.
- This recipe makes about 20 small haystacks or 10 larger ones.
- Bake for 20 minutes and remove to cool. Once they're cooked they are no longer so fragile and it's easy to eat them with a fork or as bit sized treats.
- Keep sealed in Tupperware-type containers to stay crisp or reheat for 5 minutes in a hot oven to crisp if the air is humid.
** Please keep in mind that nutrition information provided is per serving, which may vary. While we have taken care to provide you with the most accurate nutritional values possible, please note that this information may differ significantly depending on the exact ingredients and brands that you choose to use to make this recipe. Additionally, where options are given for ingredients, the resulting calculation may include all ingredient options instead of only one per line, skewing the totals significantly.