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Chewy Chocolate Almond Cookies

June 16, 2013 By Becky 2 Comments

 

Guess what?  In only 20 minutes, you can have rich, chewy chocolate almond cookies with no gluten, no butter or oil, no egg yolks, and no dairy!  It sounds too good to be true, but these cookies are really delicious!

You’ll end up with a couple of egg yolks, which you could save for ice cream.

The bad news is that my bag of almond flour is now almost gone!  I’ll definitely be buying more.  From financiers to mocha brownies to these cookies, it’s my new favorite healthy baking ingredient.  Go get some and make these today!

Note:  You won’t taste the coffee in these cookies–I just added it to bring out the chocolate flavor.  You can leave it out if you want a decaf cookie :0.

Ingredients (adapted from Heather’s Dish):

2 cups almond flour
1/2 cup sugar
2 rounded tablespoons cocoa
1 teaspoon finely ground coffee (optional)
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 egg whites
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon almond extract (optional)

Preheat the oven to 350, and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.  In a medium bowl, mix together the dry ingredients.  Add the egg whites, vanilla, and almond extract and stir until the dough comes together.

Drop tablespoon-sized balls of dough onto the parchment paper, and flatten the tops slightly with your hand or a spoon (the cookies will not spread much at all while cooking).  Bake for 10-15 minutes, until crisp on the outside but not burned on the bottoms.  Cool on a wire rack.

Filed Under: dessert, gluten free, recipe Tagged With: almond, almond flour, baking, chocolate, cookies, dairy free, healthy

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Comments

  1. Hannah says

    June 16, 2013 at 7:32 pm

    But chocolate has caffeine in it…?

    Reply
    • Rebecca Winkler says

      June 16, 2013 at 7:35 pm

      Not very much. Decaf coffee has caffeine in it, too!

      Reply

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