Weekend Recipe: Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies for Mother ’s Day
This healthy chocolate chip cookie recipe is super easy to make. My secret is to use good-quality dark eating chocolate. The 70 – 80% cocoa type such as Lindt, which is not too sweet. Using quality ingredients will create the most delicious cookie, and will be perfect with your next pot of tea or to dunk into a glass of icy cold almond milk.
You don’t need any special equipment to make this recipe, just a bowl for mixing the ingredients with your hands. I always double or triple the recipe because they don’t last long in my home.
This recipe is from my cookbook Purely Delicious.
WHAT’S GREAT ABOUT THEM
The ground almonds in this recipe make a wonderful replacement for the traditional white refined flours that you’ll find in most store bought cookies. Almonds are a good source of protein and are packed with vitamin E.
INGREDIENTS
300 g (3 cups / 10 1/2 oz) almond meal / ground almonds
6 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil or cold pressed macadamia nut oil
4 tablespoons raw honey
1 teaspoon vanilla bean extract
100g (3 1/2 oz) good quality dark eating chocolate (I used 1 block of 70% Lindt chocolate and a little water for mixing)
DIRECTIONS
Preheat your oven to 140 C (280 F)
Combine almond meal, oil, honey and vanilla bean into a mixing bowl
Mix with your hands and form into a soft dough
Add a splash of water 1 – 2 teaspoons to help form dough, otherwise it will start to crumble
Chop chocolate with a knife into small chips
Add chocolate in...
Source: TIME: Health - Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Teresa Cutter — The Healthy Chef Tags: Uncategorized Food Source Type: news