Healthy Double Chocolate Almond Butter Cookies
Healthy Double Chocolate Almond Butter Cookies Recipe. Flourless, gluten free, can be vegan! Made with flaxseed meal (or chia seeds or a "regular egg", cocoa powder, honey (or vegan alternative like maple syrup or agave), almond butter, vanilla, baking soda, salt, and dark chocolate chips! Less than 150 calories per cookie!
Servings: 18 cookies
Calories: 140kcal
Ingredients
Flax Egg:
- 1 tablespoon golden flaxseed meal
- 3 tablespoons water
Healthy Double Chocolate Almond Butter Cookies
- ½ cup cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup smooth almond butter make sure you’re using the just nuts variety (mine was runny, but cold from the fridge)
- ¼ cup honey
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup dark chocolate chips
- Maldon sea salt optional for topping
Instructions
Flax Egg:
- Place 1 tablespoon golden flaxseed meal into a large bowl.
- Stir in 3 tablespoons water.
- Let sit for 15 minutes.
Healthy Double Chocolate Almond Butter Cookies:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and line 2 rimmed baking sheets with silicone baking mats.
- To the flax egg (directions above), add in cocoa powder, baking soda, salt, almond butter, honey, and vanilla extract.
- Use your hand mixer to beat mixture together until well combined.
- Beat in dark chocolate chips.
- Use a medium sized cookie scoop to scoop dough into 18 cookie dough balls.
- Place 9 of the cookie dough balls onto each of the prepared baking sheets.
- Working with one sheet at a time, bake cookies in preheated oven for 8 minutes.
- Remove from oven and top with a sprinkle of optional maldon sea salt.
- Repeat with remaining cookies.
- Cool slightly and enjoy!
- Store leftovers in an airtight container at room temperature.
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Notes
Keep in mind these are VERY lightly sweetened from the honey, but the addition of dark chocolate chips makes these perfect, I think.
See notes in post above on how to use a chai egg or "regular" egg and how to make these vegan with agave or maple syrup!
Nutrition
Calories: 140kcal | Carbohydrates: 11g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Sodium: 116mg | Potassium: 181mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 6g | Calcium: 70mg | Iron: 0.9mg
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