Recipe: Cocoa Butter Cookies

Since I am a huge fan of cookies (who isn’t??), an enemy of unhealthy fats and a lover of cocoa butter, the unavoidable result consists of these mouthwatering cocoa butter cookies!

 

COCOA BUTTER COOKIES

Ingredients

• 2/3 cup whole-wheat flour
• 1/2 cup corn flour
• 
2/3 g oat flour
• 1/4 cup cane sugar
• 
2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla powder
• 1 pinch of salt
• 4 oz cocoa butter
• 3 tablespoons deodorized sunflower oil
• 1/4 cup rice syrup
• 4 oz g dark chocolate
• 1 handful cashew nuts
• 1 handful almonds
• 2 tablespoons sunflower seeds

 

Directions:
Mix flours, sugar, baking powder, vanilla and salt. Set aside.

Melt cocoa butter and beat it with a fork along with oil and rice syrup, then add the liquid mixture to the dry ingredients and hand-knead.

Finely chop chocolate, cashews and almonds and incorporate them along with the sunflower seeds into the dough.

Pre-heat the oven to 375°F.

Shape your cookies and place them on a baking sheet.

Bake for about 15 minutes (18, if you like them better crunchy – mine were friable right out of the oven but rather softish the day after).

 

Note:
I didn’t allow the dough to rest in the fridge because I noticed that, whenever I use cocoa butter, if I let the dough rest in the fridge, what I get is a granite and crumbly dough ball, too hard to stretch/shape.

yield: 22 medium cookies