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These flourless cookies are super easy to throw together – a new age makeover for an old recipe that was begging for an update. It’s hard to resist chocolate, coconut and nuts rolled into one delicious cookie and therefore – I ate two.
Can you say – yum?
I’ve been working on this gluten free recipe for quite a while, adding and deleting ingredients like the wind until my experimentation produced an amazing cookie that I couldn’t resist sharing with you!
This recipe is amenable to many changes within reason. Making a cookie that doesn’t turn into a brick or get crumbly without the starches or xanthan gum can be a difficult balance; the liquid components and choice of flours are important in making everything well balanced. Many people are intolerant of gums or starches mainly because they cause abdominal upset, so I thought I’d try my hand at a recipe that didn’t include them. [Read more...]
Baking is always a personal challenge for me – decreasing carbohydrates, ensuring a gluten free status and adding in anything healthful under the radar of watchful eyes.
When requests roll in to mom for “flat” chocolate chip cookies, that can equate to butter- and a lot of it. I hit the jackpot with this variation of a Babycakes cookie recipe. The butter is substituted with coconut oil and homemade applesauce – a nutritious flavorful duo. Evaporated cane juice is a less processed sweetener and falls in at 4 carbs per teaspoon. [Read more...]
When I told my kids I was creating a new “healthy cookie recipe” they both groaned.
“Mom, come on it’s the holidays- can’t we just eat the bad kind of cookies?”
I laughed and of course began making my “weird, healthy holiday cookies” that I could feel good about feeding both myself and family.
By incorporating the gluten free super-seed quinoa into the mix, you will find a total protein source in each cookie. I am happy with each and every ingredient in these cookies, plus all of the ingredients are naturally gluten free! My final review is positive, see what you think… [Read more...]
This recipe creates a truly delicious and healthy alternative to the average cookie. I have fooled even the pickiest eaters with this recipe. This Gluten Free recipe is also Nut free, Egg and Butter free. I often hear “these are the best cookies I have eaten.”
Preheat oven to 375 degrees
1 box of Mori-Nu lite silken tofu (firm) 12.3 ounces – this is a non-refrigerated item
1/2 cup cane sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup grapeseed oil
1 tbsp vanilla extract
1/4 tsp almond extract (leave out with nut allergy)
2 cups rolled oats (certified gluten free if needed)
1 cup flour (1/2 cup rice flour, 3 tbsp potato starch, 1 tbsp tapioca starch, 1/2tsp xantham gum)
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp baking powder
3/4 cup chocolate chips (I use Ghirardelli 60% cacao)
( I also add raw sunflower seeds, coconut, walnuts or whatever else you care for when adding the choc chips) [Read more...]
