Thursday 7 November 2013

Chocolate Almond Cookies

Mid-week Morning Baking: Chocolate Almond Cookies
 

 












These are similar to the double chocolate slices I made the other week with a couple of additional ingredients and I used almond essence instead of vanilla essence. Mmmmm for almond. Munch munch for these tasty almond scented cookies.

Recipe:
(makes 12)

Ingredients:
Batter:
1 cup cooked chick peas
1/2 cup peanut or almond butter
1.5-2 tablespoons of honey (depending on how sweet your tooth is)
2 tablespoon cocoa
1/4 teaspoon gluten free baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
pinch salt
1teaspoon almond essence
1 tablespoon unsweetened yoghurt
1 tablespoon unsweetened almond milk
1/4 cup stevia sweetened chocolate bits - for mixing in with batter (crushed chocolate bar)

Topping
1/2 cup stevia sweetened chocolate bits - for topping off the cookie
1/4 cup shredded almonds to top off

1) Preheat oven to 180C
2) Process everything in the food processor to form a batter
3) Grease baking tray with coconut oil
4) Use a heaped tablespoon of batter to roll into balls and flatten on tray to form cookies
7) Bake in oven for about 15mins or until done, turn oven off, take tray out of oven and close oven door to retain heat
8) Top off cookies with chocolate and almonds, turn oven off and place back in oven to melt the chocolate

Mmmmm for chocolate almond cookies ;)

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