Somedays I’m really on my game, I eat right all day, I welcome my husband to a home cooked meal, and treat the kids with respect all day. Then there are days when I wish I could crawl back in bed with a good book, grab a handful of chocolate cookies, and avoid everybody for hours!
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These gooey chocolate cookies are the key to my down days. Plus without junky ingredients I can avoid the regret and shame from binging off my normal diet. Though we shouldn’t get crazy and call them health food, they are not as bad as store bought junk.
Bonus points if you baked these yourself, because the fact that you went shopping for healthy ingredients, spent calories working in the kitchen, and treated yourself to an indulgence you deserve… is not a small feat.
You go girl!
Have a cookie or two, crawl back in bed, and enjoy! These are really dark, just so you know, I like my chocolate black!
Ingredients
- 1 cup almond flour
- 1 Tbsp coconut flour
- 1 egg
- 5 Tbsp coconut oil
- 3 Tbsp maple syrup
- 1/4 cup melted dark chocolate
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/4 cup chopped waltnuts, pecans, or macadamias
- 1/4 cup dark chocolate chips or cocoa nibs
- pinch of high quality sea salt
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350º
- Mix dry ingredients together in a large bowl
- Slowly mix in one whipped egg and maple syrup
- Melt the chocolate slowly over a low burner with coconut oil
- Add those two and gently fold in the nuts and chocolate chips
- Double check for all ingredients
- Spoon a decent sized ball of dough onto a baking sheet with liner
- Flatten out the balls lightly with a spoon
- *optional to place an entire pecan on top to make them fancy and warn people of nuts
- ***mine never make it out of the house :)
- Bake for 15 minutes and let cool before eating them if you can