I find a lot of disconnect in the health community between the people who are 100% invested and stocked up on alternative flours, nut butters, sugars, etc. and the people who are just trying to live a little healthier without spending an arm and a leg. I wanted to bridge that gap with an easy cookie recipe made from simple, whole food ingredients (with subs included) that you’ve probably got sitting around at home, and that's where this recipe was born.
Dry Ingredients
2 cups buckwheat flour (direct sub for all purpose wheat flour, might need to adjust liquid amount)
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa or cacao powder
1/4 cup coconut sugar (direct sub for granulated sugar)
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
Wet Ingredients
2 eggs
1/4 cup maple syrup (direct sub for any liquid sweetener)
1/2 cup nut butter (I used a mix of peanut & almond but any type of nut butter works)
2 tbsp ghee (direct sub for oil or butter)
2ish tbsp almond milk (adjust amount to make batter thinner or thicker, more = thin, less = thick)
Optional Add-Ins:
seriously do whatever you’ve got on hand here because that’s what I did. I ended up with 1-2 tbsp each of: almonds, cashews, walnuts, coconut flakes + 1 chopped date
Toppings:
1/2 bar chopped dark chocolate (love my @lilys_sweets_chocolate so much)
Flakey sea salt
Recipe:
Mix all dry ingredients
Mix all wet ingredients
Fold wet ingredients into dry
Fold add ins, leave toppings out
Use 1-2 tbsp of batter to form each cookie. scoop batter onto a parchment paper lined cookie tray then flatten each ball of dough. Mine made ~24 cookies
To each cookie add flaked sea salt + a little half square of dark chocolate in the middle. this used most of the chocolate. I just chopped the rest of the chocolate I had leftover & sprinkled it over each cookie
Bake for 10-15 minutes @ 350°F, watch so they don’t burn
This recipe was seriously so easy to make and the entire batch of cookies was gone in less than one week at my house. Remember that eating healthy doesn't have to be hard or expensive and that free styling recipes in the kitchen can lead to beautiful things, like cookies. Enjoy!