Camp Eden Chocolate Cookies

Submitted by Wendy's Kitchen

"Just returned from a health retreat where we baked these amazing cookies. If you are looking for wholefood cookies try these!!! Another variation is to leave out the cacao powder and put in 1 tsp ginger and/or 1 tsp cloves and/or 1 tsp cinnamon."

 

• Ready In: 25mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Yields: 24 cookies

ingredients

• 1 1⁄2 cups almonds, soaked overnight in water and drainned
• 1 1⁄2 cups mejool dates (depitted)
• 1 cup tapioca flour
• 1⁄2 cup rapadura whole unbleached cane sugar
• 2 teaspoons raw cacao powder
• 1⁄2 cup organic butter
• 1 pinch salt
• water

directions

1. Heat oven to 150°C.
2. Line baking tray with baking paper.
3. In a food processor process almond until fine meal.
4. Add dates and mix well.
5. Add all other ingredients.
6. Add enough water to get the mixture to combine but check as you dont want it to sticky!
7. Roll mixture into walnut size pieces and flattne lighltly with a fork.
8. Bake for 5 minutes.
9. Flatten with fork and bake for a further 10 minutes.
10. As ithey cool they harden.

Reviews

[D Rusak]

Mmm, moist and chewy. These are not too chocolatey but still good. I used 1/3 c honey instead of the sugar, and added some chili powder because I likes me some spice with my chocolate. Unfortunately I managed to burn half of them, I guess I'll just have to make another batch....

 

[StickyToffee]

These are soft and dense and very satisfying. I didn't have the patience to soak the almonds but the recipe came out fine anyway. I used regular sugar. I didn't want to buy tapioca flour so ground up regular tapioca in my coffee grinder until it was a fine powder. I think you could probably substitute rice flour in this. These were not chocolatey at all. You could always melt chocolate and drizzle it over.