Chocolate Granola Heart Cookies
Crunchy and sweet, these cookies are free from seeds, nuts and there also vegan.
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Ingredients
- 1 cup dried coconut
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 1/2 cup coconut sugar
- 1/3 up raw cacao nibs or raw cacao beans ground into nibs
- 1 tbs raw cacao powder
- 1 tbs raw carob powder
- 1 tsp vanilla paste or powder
- 2 tbs coconut oil – melted
- 2 tbs honey, dark agave, maple syrup or rice syrup
- 1 tbs water
Preparation
Step 1
Makes: 12 cookies or a large jar of granola
Preheat oven to 180
Add all dry ingredients to a large mixing bowl
and stir. If using the cacao beans then make sure you ground them into about 2mm
chips before adding to the mix.
Add the coconut oil, sweetener and water to the
mix and stir through with you fingertips until you get a sticky mixture.
Spread the mix onto the baking tray as pictured if
making granola or carefully place mixture into a heart shaped cookie cutter and
flatten out to fit neatly and evenly in the cutter, remove the cutter and
continue to form as many cookies as you can until you have used all of the mix.
If making granola: Bake for 10 minutes then
remove from the oven to pull the outer edges of the granola into the centre and
give it a gently stir then continue cooking of another 10-14 minutes making
sure that it doesn’t burn
Remove from the oven and separate the mixture to make granola or wait 5 minutes
for it to cool slightly then form into small cookies.
Carob adds great flavour and will really help to round out
the chocolate flavour but if you don’t have it or can’t get it then just leave
it out. You shouldn’t need to add more cacao powder to compensate, do a taste
test and adjust if necessary. I’ve made it with and without and both worked
well without adding anymore cacao to the one without carob.
As all ovens are different and older ones tend to have
variations in temperature you will really need to watch it while baking, not
long enough and they will be soft and chewy and too long the will be burnt and
bitter. With the heat set as 150